Czuch Chuckers:

You hit the nail on the head, Mr. Formerly UpchuckKing.

But when will "everyone" do this? Will everyone bid the sum of their money on the first run? How about the second run? Will they bid half of their money?

The idea is to force as many people as possible to bid as high as possible, and still be able to bankrupt them.

Like entering the Final Round of Jeopardy with more than twice as much money as everyone else. It does not matter what they bid, you can't lose.

Now use retrograde analysis and keep working your way back from a proven win.

You will see an interesting pattern emerge, independent of what other people bet.

And, since I generated all of the betting scenarios, I discarded the ones that lose, and the ranges of lost bets, and guess what

I do have one question though.

At what point can you see what everyone else has bet. At the end of each round?