Rush Poker – Poker’s Next Great Thing???
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Full Tilt Poker has a new ring game called “Rush Poker” and it is certainly one of a kind. For the details on how “Rush Poker” works, you can check here: Full Tilt Poker’s Explanation
There are many positives and negatives to playing the game of poker at this speed. On the positive side is the sheer amount of hands that you can get in due to the speed of the game. No other platform allows for you to get more hands in per hour. I was multi-tabling a “Rush poker” table with 2 other cash games, and the speed between the 3 ring games wasn’t even close. It was almost 5 hands to 1 vs. a normal cash game on average, sometimes more. More hands mean more experience, and more for your Rake Back in theory. You will also see action more often than at normal ring games, simply because you’re going to see more premium hands per session than a standard ring game, due to the fact that you’re going to be dealt more hands.
But the large negatives are just that……large. Something I found to be troublesome is that you’re really unable to take notes on your opponents because as soon as you’ve made your decision to fold a hand, you’re whisked away to another table, unable to see the result of the previous hand. Immediately, you’re placed into a new table, with new opponents, in a completely random position. You may go from folding Ad-Jd under the gun (an unenviable position to play this hand), directly to the button with 9-3os, and back to the Big Blind with pocket T’s. The seating is completely at random, so it’s difficult to get a read on your opponents, which means that you’re just really playing your cards against your opponents.
Additionally, with the seating being completely random, it is possible to land yourself in a blind several hands in a row (I once was either placed in a big blind or a small blind for 5 consecutive hands). Generally speaking, the blinds are where we typically lose the most money as poker players simply because we have to play our hands from out of position. However, I also had a string of 11 consecutive hands in a row played from the button, the cutoff, or the hijack seat. So this can work out to be a positive as well as you are also going to see your fair share of hands in position as well.
One big takeaway that I had from my sessions of “Rush Poker” was that there was far less bluffing than a standard ring game. I believe that this has to due with the speed of the game, and players dumping their marginal hands with greater frequency when there are card dead. Players are much less likely to take risks when they’re holdings are poor if they know that their next hand will be coming in mere seconds. I mean, who wants to hold onto K-7 in the SB when you can simply muck this hand instantly, and wake up with another in position in under a second. Whereas in a standard ring game, if action were to fold to the SB, I see a hand in this range raised, blind vs. blind, with much greater frequency.
What this means it that there will be fewer large pots built. This can be both good and bad depending on your style of play. I think that the jury is still out on whether or not this will actually stand the test of time with poker players, but the great benefit of seeing so many more hands per session could absolutely lead to this being a game that sticks around for a long time. What do you think of this new game?
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I’ve found that it’s advisable to play mostly top 10 hands during rush poker… kinda cramps my usual loose-aggressive style – Not nuts about it.
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fewer large pots? really? I turned 5k into 70k in short order. It’s fast pace means less waiting for joe blow to call, check or fold.No matter what position you are in if you play smart you can minimize your losses.
though this was on the play money tables. I haven’t to played the real money tables yet
Nice article on rush poker
I’ve played it a ton and can say there is major profit to be made rite now if you have the correct strategy and know the regulars.
Hi I have been playing rushpoker since its inception and have done quite well at 0.05/0.10 tables. That was until I started being in the blinds every 4th hand. For some reason over the course of thousand and thousands of hands (really thousands and thousands) I am in the big or small blind every 4th hand on average. I contacted Fulltilt and sent them hand histories to no avail. They told me that a player can be in the blind up to 50% of the time over 20k hands. I had to laugh at that. I was especially interested in reading your section on the blinds because it is not my experience at all. It is very rare for me to go more than 5 hands without being in the blind (big or small) and super rare to go 8 or 9 hands with out the blind. I have never, and I repeat never since I began noticing this, gone more than 9 hands without the blind. I would guess that once in a while a player would go more than 9 hands without landing in the blind to average out all the times he or she got the blind in less than nine. For me it is like a tax on my winnings. If I manage to play, lets be conservative and say 60 hands in an hour I will be in the BB or SB for 15 or more of those hands. As you know from playing yourself very few hands are worth playing so I am often forced to call raise of 3x or so just to play a hand of say some lowly suited connector. There are very few hands at this level which go without a raise and people tend to play quality hands more often in this style of poker. Multiply this by 4 tables ( I like to play multi tables) and it can get costly. It also weighs on my ability to stay cool when I am in the blinds over and over again. It is for this very reason I will not play at a higher stakes rush table. Now I must state I love rushpoker and really want to play it but with this blind situation I am spinning my wheels. I have remained at the same money amount for 2 weeks now since it began in the hope that it would work itself out but has not. My guess is that certain people have been assigned to suck up the blinds and keep rushpoker running efficiently. I would appreciate your thoughts on the matter. PLease contact at the emial adress above I would love to write an in depth article on this matter for your website.
Thanks