Increased speed is a respectable goal, but accuracy should be stressed over speed in any circumstance. If, after a hand has been displayed, you don't have absolute confidence in your hold selection (and aren't acutely attuned to any errors you do commit but fail to catch before hitting draw), then you're playing too fast.
That said, the best means to to play speed is a crisp, precise play style. When it comes down to it, effective play style is simply a rhythmic exercise: deal, scan, hold, rescan for errors, draw. (Still, such "rhythmic" play has to be monitored ... it's easy to fall into a pace where you start hitting draw before you've thoroughly completed an accurate card scan.)
If you know your strategy cold, there's little reason that a hand should take little more than 3 seconds to execute (a play speed of around 1200 hph on a reasonably fast machine). It helps if you become accustomed to playing with both hands (say two buttons with your left hand, and three with your right), and are able to operate the buttons without having to take your eyes away from the screen (looking for confirmation that you've pressed the correct buttons by the "Hold" indicator on the screen). Most machines will permit you to select all draw cards with a concurrent stroke of your fingers.
There's no question that being an effective touch typist pre-disposed me to this play style. I'm not sure that practicing touch typing as a means to better vp play is a practical approach though (as was suggested).
A key means to increased speed is to forgo a review of your hand results -- just triple tap the deal/draw key to move on quickly. (Sometimes I find myself quickly scanning the change in my credit meter rather than looking at the draw results in order to keep the play moving ... particularly when playing a multiline machine.)
- H.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Bartop" <bobbartop@...> wrote:
> I am under the impression that most serious players do between 800-1000 hands per hour. So I believe I am behind the curve, and I know I am practically alone in my stubborn refusal to stop using touch-screen.
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> Practicing typing sounds like good advice. So thanks for that.
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> I would still like to watch how some players crank out more hands, but like I said, I'm not in Vegas and there is no one here to learn from.
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> I forget what Frank Kneeland gets out, but it is an unbelievable number. I saw someone at the Palms many years ago just blazing on the button board, so fast it was practically a blur. That might have been Frank.
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