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Rush Poker at Full Tilt: A New Way To Play
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Rush Poker at Full Tilt: A New Way To Play
January 31st, 2010 by Mike
There’s a new card game in town. Rush Poker is now available at Full Tilt Poker, and let me tell you, it’s taking off like a rocket. Players are flocking to the Rush tables left, right, and center. Rush injects a much-needed dose of fun into the online poker experience. No wonder it’s becoming more popular by the second.
What is Rush Poker?
First and foremost, it’s fast. A few hands of Rush Poker will leave you scratching your head wondering where the time went. Essentially, Rush gives you the ability to skip through any crappy hands you don’t want to play. Instead of having to wait for everyone at the table to make their decisions, you can fast-forward through any given hand, and begin a new one instantly.
Rush Poker doesn’t change the rules of poker. If you sit in for a game of Rush Holdem, all the regular Holdem rules apply. If you sit in for a game of Rush Omaha, it’s still Omaha. The main change is in the structure of how you act.
Rush Poker: The Details
When you join a game of Rush Poker, you’re added to a large pool of players. A player pool can range from 300 to thousands of people. You’re then seated at a table, along with a randomly selected group of opponents, all chosen from the pool. The game gets really interesting once the cards are dealt.
Once you’ve got a hand, you have an opportunity to either stick around and play, or to “quick fold”. This is probably the main feature of Rush Poker, and its awesomeness really cannot be overstated. Quick fold allows you to ditch your hand immediately-even before it’s your turn to act-and leave the table. New cards are just seconds away.
Once you’ve quick folded, you’ll be re-seated at a different table, with a new group of randomly chosen opponents. Quick fold allows you to literally fast-forward through the muck. No more long, drawn-out waits while donks battle each other for the blinds. Simply toss ‘em and get on with playing.
For example…
You’re dealt 74 offsuit in middle position. Chances are-hopefully!-that you don’t want to play the hand. You press the quick fold button, while the player under the gun is still running down his time clock. Presto-your 74 offsuit disappears, and you’re transported to a brand new table. You’re dealt pocket kings on the button, and you win lots of cash.
Cool, huh?
What about the blinds?
You’re probably asking yourself how the blinds are decided, given that player selection is totally random in Rush Poker. It’s pretty simple, and it’s totally fair: at any given table, the player who has gone the longest without posting the big blind is chosen to post. The small blind is always truly random.
Thus in the long-term, blind selection in Rush Poker works exactly the same way as it would in regular-paced poker. Every player will post the blinds an equal amount of times.
What’s the downside?
I can’t find one. Just to review, Rush Poker allows you to:
- Skip past any crap hands you don’t want to play.
- Play against new players every single hand. No more annoying regulars abusing their PokerTracker stats.
- Avoid having to wait for slowpokes.
- Play a lot more hands in an hour than you’re able to at a regular-paced table… Hellooooo rakeback!
- Play the exact same poker game you’ve always played-equally as fair and balanced-at a faster pace.
If there’s a downside, I don’t see it, and quite frankly, neither does anyone else. The Rush Poker player pool is growing bigger by the day. Players of all skills are making the transition, and they’re sticking around. Rush Poker is a no BS card game, tailored towards those who want to play a fast game.
Remember back when online poker was still a baby? Remember when Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP, and the tables exploded with action? Rush Poker has the potential to cause a boom just as big as that one. Start playing today, and get good while the game is young!
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