Rush Poker Strategy by Brandon Adams

March 19, 2010 · Posted in Poker Strategy

Improve your Rush Poker Strategy with tips from Poker Pro Brandon Adams

Rush Poker seems to be taking off the ground quicky on Full Tilt Poker and I really hope you are getting the most out of it!

If not, this post will certainly help you out! But before I tell you about it, you should know that I have already made one post on Rush Poker Tips before. You can read it here: How to play Rush Poker: Basics and Tips from Howard Lederer.

Since then another professional poker player, Brandon Adams, has published his thoughts about Strategy in Rush Poker games. Due to the fact that online Rush Poker games are so new, every strategy tips about this poker form is more than welcome to get familiar with.

That is why I suggest all Rush Poker Players to further improve their Rush Poker Strategy by reading the following article written by Brandon Adams: Thinking about Strategy in Rush Poker

All those who have read the tips from Howard Lederer already know that one of the advantages of playing Rush Poker over the normal online poker games is that you get to play many more hands in Rush Poker.

There are estimates that with Rush Poker you are able to play approximately 4 times more hands than with normal poker games. While this is true, the number of hands played in Rush poker also depends on how fast you are with playing poker in general.

Just like you will be able to read in the article about strategy in rush poker by Brandon Adams, if you are above average when it comes to playing speed, you are able to play twice as much hands as an average player!

Enough talk from me, here are some of the highlights in the above mentioned Rush Poker Strategy article:

Rush Poker Strategy: Taking advantage of Quick Fold Button

When playing Rush Poker, you have an option to fold out of turn. This feature is called »quick fold button«. This basically means you get seated to another table immediately after pressing the quick fold button.

Ofcourse, the opponents at that table have no idea that you used that button, at least until the move to act gets to you. When that happens, your fold happens very quickly and it is obvious to the rest of the table that you used »quick fold«.

Now here comes the best part. Regular Rush Poker players take notes on who is quick folding or folding out of turn and are taking advantage of that.

As said, only regular players can be able to determine such players as they keep seeing some of the same players (eventhough the pool of players in Rush Poker consist out of 1000+ players).

So, how can you take advantage of players who are using »quick fold«? Well, constantly stealing blinds from them is one possible way of using such information!

For the rest of the Rush Poker strategy by Brandon Adams, I suggest reading the whole article by clicking here: Rush Poker Strategy!

Have anything to add about Rush poker strategies? I really hope so! Leave it in the comments below please. Thanks and good luck at the (online) poker tables!

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Comments

Yhump

If you decide to play Rush Poker seriously expect to experience an unrelenting string of AA over KK, set over set, set over two pair or AA/KK, two pair over two pair, QUADS over sets, Flushes over sets, etc. — the kind of tough beats you expect in poker but at an alarming, seemingly cursed rate. In other words, if you're a solid, winning player at normal tables with an occasional 1 or 2 BI downswing you can expect 12 – 15 BI downswings within very short periods of time even playing TAG poker. I've experienced very short term success playing LAG but eventually you will be overwhelmed with the aforementioned problems.

Furthermore, don't expect to be “stealing blinds” like the “strategy” above suggests. Expect plenty of 3bets to your steals or even normal raises from the blinds followed by a pot-sized continuation bet on the flop. And IF you decide to 3bet, expect that to be a losing strategy in the long run as well since eventually you too will be crushed by scenarios mentioned above.

Playing NIT and waiting for big hands will also present the same issues as eventually your big hands will be crushed by some “”unlikely” combination.

I think the addictive qualities of RUSH will have a residual effect but overall the game is a long term losing proposition.

The 1 scenario I do recommend for RUSH POKER is playing super NIT while clearing your opening deposit bonus and racking up rake while also qualifying for IRON man. Once you are clear, I recommend switching to normal poker and permanently exiting RUSH.

Finally, if you do any research with players claiming to be up “50″ buy-ins over a 30k hand history ask them to show you their graph after 300 – 500k hands. I guarantee you will see alarming nose-dives in their earnings to the tune of 5 and 6 buy-ins in a 500 hand span.
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Hey Yhump!

Thanks for posting such detailed information about your experience with Rush Poker!

From what you have written in the comment, I assume you have played quite some hands in this poker format. I am sure future readers will find your insights very useful!

Thanks and good luck!
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