Desireabitily index, rounds per hour, calculation

[Eliot]

Full table baccarat moves at about 35 to 40 hands per hour if pre-shuffled shoes are used. It is slightly slower if the dealer has to shuffle those 8 decks or there are "slow squeezers" at the table. Mini-baccarat is slightly faster. I'd say that the full range is about 30-50 hands per hour. If you are a super high roller and can lock down your own private table (e.g. Phil Ivey @ Crockfords), you can make the game move considerably faster.

Blackjack has a huge range of hands per hour and there is no fixed benchmark for what you can expect. I played games that were close to 400 hands per hour, heads up single deck back in the 1990s. I have also seen hand shuffled shoe games at a full table move slower than 40 hands per hour. We used to say it's all about HPR when we were scouting games for counting. When I was playing for comps, I always looked for the slowest table. It is worth noting that for comp/t-win, most casinos give the game pace for blackjack in the range 50-75 hands per hour.