3,000 HPH is an inflated claim, period. I don't have Kneeland's book anymore, but the best I remember his claim was 2,400 HPH playing two machines. It seems like a stretch to me but I'll take Frank's word for it. My "cruising speed" is 1000 HPH. When I burst it up to 1200 HPH the mistakes start happening so I back off quickly.
Montana machines are all auto-hold and you have to touch the screen to change the hold. But I play the same HPH on these machines as I did on the Nevada machines. I only have to change about 1 of every eight hands.
I've clocked myself all kinds of ways, by the minute, five minutes, 10 minutes, hourly, four hours, etc. My results by the minute or five minutes never match up with the hourly. So the 1000 HPH is what I call "seat time." I'm out of my seat quite a bit. Besides bathroom breaks, I often get drowsy and have to walk it off.
And one other thing. I haven't smoked a cigarette in a casino since Oct 1st, 2009 when Montana bars/restaurants/casinos went non-smoking. I have to go outside. However, it's very convenient here. I'm not in a casino with 2000 machines where you have to walk a great distance to get outside. I'm in a room with 20 machines in it. All the machines have reserved signs. The casino owners have been very creative in keeping their smokers happy. They have smoking shelters with adequate seating, heat lamps, etc. But I still lose about 5 minutes an hour to smoking. (Please, let's don't turn the thread into a smoking diatribe.) I'm quite used to not smoking in casinos anymore.
Yesterday, after following this thread, I set the machine on super turbo speed and backed off to betting just one nickel. The machine is auto-hold but I made no hold changes. I just tapped the deal/draw button and counted. On super turbo the cards appear all at once. It's lightning fast. The cards appear and disappear faster than you can tap the button. 40 hands per minute. That equates to 2400 HPH. I just don't see how anyone can do 2400 HPH on a machine without super turbo speed and auto-hold. And not changing the hold on 1 out of eight hands destroys the ER.
I'm quite happy just playing at cruising speed. I can think about other things while I'm playing without making mistakes. At my age (I'm the old bull) I don't get in a hurry to do anything anymore. I just mosey around and pick off the money.
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