As far as the play rate it depends on the game. Joker Poker has a a high frequency of 5 card redraws. And the game is fairly easy to play.
Yes, you're quite right. The whole point of my posting was to find out what knowledgeable locals had to say. I will definitely abstain unless I'm persuaded it's on the up and up. Unfortunately I've only seen one substantive response so far and it raises more questions.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "vp_wiz" <harry.porter@...> wrote:
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "vp_nbi" <nbi@> wrote:
> > When playing casually I crank out about 3k hands per hour. When
> > focused even more. And over most of the time in question there was
> > at least one other player matching or exceeding my speed.
>
> Haven't had my coffee yet ... maybe someone familiar with these machines will make sense of this. (An image of the Tazmanian Devil playing vp keeps flashing up in my mind.)
>
> I've just never witnessed a machine that could handle the Deal/Draw/Credit Increment in less than 2 sec / hand (say, 1.5k hands/hr)
>
> In any case, nbi, with your doubts about machine fairness, I would expect you're not planning a return to SF Stn anytime soon. (To do so, would seem an analog of the idiomatic definition of insanity.)
>
> - H.
>
