From: casino_travel
Subject: [vpFREE] Hands per hour
>A recent post mentioning 1000 hands per hour got me thinking.
>How many hands do you typically play per hour? Has anyone out there
>documented it for reference?
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally a post on a video poker forum that
has something to do with video poker. Who'd a thunk? I'll offer you my
method to compare to some of the other answers. I like to get as close to
the actual average as I can and if you have played enough on different
machines, you already know that the speeds of the machines themselves can
vary widely. Many times you will see a two Game Kings for instance that
will look identical and the tech can even show you that they are both set up
on speed 2, which is relatively fast, and you may notice a considerable
speed difference between the two. One may have a newer computer platform
than the other, or one may just be more recently manufactured. Then, there
is the wear factor. I personally prefer just to hit the max bet button on
my initial hand only and for every other hand in my session, I use only the
deal/draw button to eliminate any extra and sometimes dangerous movement. I
feel a lot of players do this and depending on how many of them are moron
whack attackers trying to bring on fatigue early, the additional stress on
this button will cause the plastic legs on the underside of the button
extreme premature wear. This in turn rounds off one or more of these legs
and when the button is depressed the contact part of the switch is not
exactly flat, and you will experience a slight delay in the deal of the
hand. Many times when someone is referring to a sticky button, the
condition is actually just plain abuse. Sadly, our couple of years of
plunging gaming revenue has caused most places to consider general machine
maintenance an unnecessary luxury. Next up, the designed delays in the
game, such as the programmed anticipation of heart pounding excitement while
waiting for the stuttering multiplier to be finally revealed when playing on
Super Times Pay. Multi-Strike is addicting, but speed of coin in on this
game now may be a factor for you to choose to play. What I do to set my
speed rate is to have my wife stand behind me with her watch that has a
second hand. She does not tell me when she is going to start the timing or
when she has finished so I am not trying to influence the result. She
counts the number of hands that I play in 60 seconds, multiplys by 60 and
now I have my hph. This method will also eliminate any confusion at casinos
that use a countdown to the next point in the display window. Again, thank
you for making a video poker post on what is supposed to be a video poker
forum. I have long tired of seeing freight train jumping and what trains
are called and posts on religion which were not appropriate before the
administrator became gonadless. I used to open my vpFREE mail folder
everyday, now I'm lucky to do it once a week. We have 10,718 members with
mostly nothing to say. If I assume correctly that most joined because of
interest in video poker, and they have become the silent majority, there is
no longer much material related to video poker being posted, so then just
what the hell are all you people still doing here. Can somebody please give
me a damn hallelujah and an amen to that.
Nudge
