I'd be thrilled to reach 1000, and maintain accuracy.
Bob,
That's good, but IMHO, reversed. Maintaining accuracy is more important than increasing speed. That final scan of the machine, in which I include both the paytable section for the highlighted line, if any, as well as the cards I am holding is critical. Cards can be held and unheld by a quick double push, a button can be mechanically pushed by your finger but not sufficiently to hold the card, or there can be that jumbled-up straight that your eye just might not have registered that can cause what VP training programs call critical, serious or severe errors. Any of those can be much more costly than can be made up for by a 10% increase in speed.
You did get a lot of valid suggestions for speed increases, just don't neglect the other side of the equation!
Guru
P.S. and that's coming from someone who HATES to sit next to someone who uses the screen to select his cards. The constant motion in my peripheral vision can be distracting, and sometimes I want to scream (especially when it is a woman whose 35 jangly bracelets add a soundtrack to the dancing). But to each his (or her) own, so I would never say anything about someone's foibles.
P.P.S. Except that once on an NCL cruise when an older woman was making herself a totally obnoxious witch (sp) with her continual screaming of obscenities at the machine, the attendants, the drink servers, and her fellow players, spewing smoke and scattering ashes. She changed machines and sat down next to me and I was very reluctant to move because the machine was playing nicely for me. I tried to ignore her, until she cursed me specifically after I pulled quad Aces just holding a singleton. But "Ignorant, C---------g F--k, you get Aces and I get S--t!@#$%^&&*&^%$# etc."? Ignorant? Screw you, sweetheart, I worked hard for my Masters degree.
I turned to her, looked her right in the eye and softly said "Malocchio" and made the mano cornuta gesture at her machine. Now I'm not saying that I was profiling, but let's just say that I really believed she would understand exactly what both the words and the gesture would mean. She turned pale, shut totally up, which was a welcome silence, and played another couple of hands. She got absolutely nothing either before or after the draw - not a single card to even hold. She cashed out and rushed away. Later on, I overheard her telling her girlfriend that she'd been cursed. And although she did play some more during the cruise, keeping up her obnoxious antics unfortunately, every time I sat down to play, she immediately cashed out and went rushing away as if the devil was chasing her.
Certainly the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you; if you don’t bet, you can’t win. -Lazarus Long
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. -Yogi Berra
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. -Robert Heinlein
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Put a couple glasses of wine in me and I'm probably better off playing craps!