Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
Playing one hand every 3 seconds is easy to do and that equates to 1200 HPH. So 1000 HPH is not so hard. I don't even use the top speeds to do it. If the game has 4 speeds I'm usually using 2nd highest. But if you play 6 hours a day how many bathroom breaks do you need? Can you stay off your phone? Can you keep from jaw jacking with the players around you? Even tho I play at 1000 HPH I never get out 6000 hands in a six hour session. Maybe 4500.
This discussion sort of mirrors a major point I have been making in the blackjack count debates for years. Error rate, or more precisely higher error rate associated with certain activates like playing too fast or in the case of the blackjack debates, using a higher, even slightly more taxing count.
In the blackjack debates, proponents of a higher, more complicated count (even if only slightly more complicated) want to count the benefit of any counts like a slight increase in win rate, while completely ignoring any negatives like a higher error rate. Only accepting the good and ignoring the bad or negatives.
And it is the same thing with VP play speed. There
HAS to be a higher error rate with playing faster, or in the case of blackjack using even a slightly more difficult count.
There HAS TO BE! Proponents just don't want to accept that. But we are human beings. If you could video tape play, both VP play and blackjack play, I could prove this fact, but without doing that I am just getting a lot of guys that say, "oh no not me. I can play as fast as I want or a much tougher count just as efficiently." Hog wash!