--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "vp_wiz" <harry.porter@...> wrote:
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> I'm puzzled, and more than a little amused, by any suggestion that someone might inflate their reported play speed......
A couple things on playing speed. Clocking your play for a minute and taking that as your long term play speed is misleading. If you can play 20 hands in a minute, that's a lot easier to do than playing 1200 hands in one hour and also very different from playing 12000 hands in 10 hours. So, some of the speed claims may be based on the one minute sample. If you write down your starting time, play for 3 hours and look at the hands played, I think it will be a lot less than your one minute speed.
Speed is important in many situations:
- when play earns drawing tickets for a limited period of time
- when playing a sufficiently positive game
- when playing a game that may disappear soon
- when you are trying to hit a play goal and have limited playing time
- when playing a progressive
Playing accuracy dwarfs playing speed for your bottom line. Eliminating mistakes will add more money to your pocket than speed increases. Read Frank Kneeland's book for an interesting discussion of the various player mistakes.
As for speed claims, the machines I have played in Las Vegas I don't think are capable of 3000 hph. I haven't actually tried it but just hitting deal then draw repeatedly I don't think gets you to 3000 hph. The machines at Casino Royale that were at the main entrance ( as of February) are the fastest machines I have played. Playing Bonus Poker ( which I know very well) and trying to play quickly ( just to see how fast they would go) I got to 1620 hph in burst mode, 27 hands in 60 seconds. Now, there is a little rounding error in using a wrist watch to track the time and that is the play speed for only one minute.
Frank's 2500 - 3000 hph numbers I thought were for playing 2 machines ( which is a very impressive feat). On the machines I have seen, I think 2000 hph is the machine max achievable.
All that said, accuracy is way, way more important.
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