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Since a few months, Full Tilt poker introduced a new revolution in poker with Rush Poker.

For those who don’t know what Rush Poker is, here’s a short explanation.
Instead of a normal ring game, you’re playing against more than 100 opponents. In the low stakes a Rush Poker game can exist of 400 to 600 users.
Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t a tournament, but you’ll be seated at a table together with others and as soon as you quick fold, fold or end the hand, you’ll be seated at another table with other opponents waiting for cards.

The name Rush Poker is the right name for this kind of game. The first time I played it I was thinking what the hell??? This game’s so freaking fast. You’ll be playing around 250 hands an hour which is much more than a normal ring game.
This also implicates that you could win or lose your money faster.

So what tactics should you apply in this kind of game?

With the fact that you’re playing so many hands per hour, you should be aware that just calling isn’t the right move. 4 times out of 5 there’s always one player that will raise the BB. So if you’re going to enter in the pot, make a raise instead of just a call.
This also means that if you want to be successful in Rush Poker, you’ll won’t be playing hands like 7 2 of 8 4, …
Don’t get me wrong, you can play them occasionally, but mostly you’ll be playing tight.
My experience is that everyone that enters the pot is having a decent hand to play, so with a bad flop for good hands you can take a swing for the pot. You should only have to watch out for the blinds if there was no pre-flop raise. They could hold any cards for nothing.

So whenever you’re holding good cards, make a raise. I prefer to raise 3x the BB and mostly play just against 1 other player, which raises my chance of winning the pot. Depending on the flop I always make another raise to see what my opponent will do. Only if the flop is really in my disadvantage, I check.

I also try to get as much out of the pot as possible, no matter if I get the ‘nuts’ on the flop or not. It hurts to see everybody fold if you’re holding one of the best hands at the time, but when someone does decide to gamble, you’ll be winning big. This is why I also find it necessary to play tight.

If I’m on the blinds I mostly call a small raise, even when I’m holding deuce seven. I only do this for seeing the flop, if I hit big, I can wheel in a lot more cash and I won’t be hitting my head at the time I folded 4J for a few cents, with a J4J flop.

I only can say, try Rush Poker on Full Tilt, see if it’s a game for you, because I can imagine that the fastness of the game isn’t playable for everyone. I can only say that I really like it and that I find it much easier to win money then in normal ring games.

In normal ring games, 70% of the times I leave the table with more cash than entering. In Rush Poker I currently have a 85% winning percentage. Also, I win more at a time than when I’m playing a normal ring game.

There’s only 1 important rule I learned not to ignore: Whenever I’m under half my initial stack, I leave the game to cut my losses and keeping me on my bankroll management.
This could be overly careful of me, but it’s a rule I pushed myself into after a few losses that where completely my own fault. I saw that when I lost more than the half of my stack, I played too loose en was making stupid calls. I was under the impression that I could bluff out my opponents, but got hit in the face. So to avoid this I told myself to stop at 50% of my initial stack.

For leaving the table with winnings, I have an almost identical rule, whenever I win 50% of my stack, I prefer to leave the game. But it happens often that I don’t do it, because I’m keep getting big hands and keep on winning. This is risky, because you could again be playing much looser and could make wrong calls as being one of the big stacks and try to fold you’re opponent with big raises. If they don’t, you’re losing that precious earned cash. So quit while you can then

See you at the Rusk Poker tables on Full Tilt!!!

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