Try running it again with them set to 2. My bet would be that's also less good than 5 (but not as bad as set to 10). I'd be very interested to know if that's right or not.
The procedure I'm using is to follow the jumps starting at each top card until you can't go any further, and count how often each following card is landed on. Then taking the max count on the last 7 cards and dividing by 9 (the max you can get to). That should be the chance you both land on the same card in the final row.
Here's a table of the results with different face card values: