Five Rush Poker Tips From Andy Bloch
Discover Five (5) Rush Poker Tips From Full Tilt Poker Pro Andy Bloch!
Rush Poker is catching on quickly, that is a fact. It seems like every one wants to experience the rush and excitement that this very unique form of poker has to offer.
Are you one of my readers who enjoy playing and making money out of Rush Poker on FTP?
You just have to read today’s blog post then! Keep reading to find out why.
Andy Bloch, Full Tilt Poker Pro who has up to date earned more than $4.2 million in tournament winnings and has also finished 2nd in WSOP 2006 H.O.R.S.E. Event (buy-in for this live poker event was $50 000!), has published very interesting and helpful rush poker video lesson that you do not want to miss out on!
You can watch the lesson for free at FTP Academy. Simply log into FTP Academy (or register first), find Andy Bloch’s video titled »5 Tips on Rush Poker« and watch it.
What You Will Learn About Rush Poker From Andy Bloch
I have already watched the video and I must say I like it! The tips Andy Bloch is talking about can definitely help you win (more) at rush poker if you put them in action.
Here is the quick review of the first three (out of five) lessons that Andy is going share with you in the video:
1. Rush Poker Tip: Play Solid Poker
The first advice about rush poker that Andy Bloch is going to tell you about is: You need to play solid poker.
You should play solid game because Rush poker attracts lots of action players. Therefore, there is no need for you to be (too) creative, if you want to beat these action players. All you need to take home the money is to play solid poker.
2. Rush Poker Tip: Players Play Tighter
As you may know, rush poker has a quick fold option. Once you press that button, you are immediately taken to a new table with new players and a new hand.
As a consequence, (most) players will be folding a lot more than they would in a normal game of poker.
What this means for you as a rush poker player? It means once you raise and get called or someone raises preflop, chances that your opponent has a solid hand are much higher than in usual online poker games.
3. Rush Poker Tip: There Is Nothing Wrong With Slowing Down
The thing with rush poker is that it is a very fast game. You are either folding until you get a hand that is worth playing or you are actually playing it. There is no time for waiting or observing others.
Well, not until you actually take that time. Andy Bloch therefore suggests you take some time off by clicking »deal me out« or use a time bank (for tough decisions).
As mentioned, these are just three (3) out of five (5) rush poker tips that Andy Bloch is going to introduce you to in the discussed video. To see the actual video, go to Full Tilt Poker Academy.
Want more rush poker tips and advice? Check out my following two blogs then:
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Rush Poker Tournaments introduced at Full Tilt Poker
After Rush Poker cash games, Full Tilt has now introduced Rush Poker tournaments too!
Good news coming from Full Tilt Poker for those of you who like to play online poker fast and spend as little time waiting for another hand as possible!
After bringing on online Rush Poker cash games, which is a kind of revolution in online poker, Full Tilt Poker has now introduced online Rush Poker tournaments too! The rules of playing this type online poker tournaments are not much different than with cash games:
Again, as soon as you fold your hand or the hand is over you immediately get seated to another table and receive a new hand. That also means that every registered poker player at the Rush Poker tourney you are playing in could be your potential opponent.
If you need some Rush Poker cash game tips or better understanding of it, I suggest you check out these two blog posts I have made:
Here are few more words about Rush Poker tournaments:
About online Rush Poker Tournaments
Rush Poker tournaments run in the way described above until there are only 30 players left.
At that point, the tables will go from standard full ring (9 players) to short handed (6 players) until the final tables. At the final table, things get back to normal again where hands are played just like with any other (online) poker tournament.
How to register for Rush Poker Tournaments
The first thing you need to do is log into the Full Tilt Poker (or register first if you dont have FTP account yet) and then find the Rush Poker tournaments using Browse function:
Tournaments / All / Holdem / No-limit
The Rush Poker tourneys will be marked with black letter »R«, so you will be able to recognize them easily. You can also use FTP‘s Advanced Filter and simply create yourself a list of all Rush Poker tournaments available.
In case you have something to add, feel free to leave it in the comments below. Have fun and see you around!
Rush Poker Strategy by Brandon Adams
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!
How to play Rush Poker: Basics and Tips from Howard Lederer
Find out about the basics of Rush Poker and read the Tips on how to play Rush Poker from Howard Lederer!
As you know, Full Tilt Poker has just recently launched a new way of playing online poker. It is called Rush Poker and I have already mentioned a couple of things about it in my previous post. Since this kind of online poker games are becoming more and more popular every day, more and more players are interested in how to play Rush Poker profitably.
If this is the case with you as well, then you should definitely read this blog post as it will provide you with some general guidelines or tips for playing Rush poker. It also includes a link to Howard Lederer’s article about this new way of playing online poker.
Anyways, because of its novelty, not much has been said, written and published about how to play these online poker games yet. So far, the only poker player who has written a couple of useful tips for Rush Poker is Howard Lederer (The Poker Professor).
You can read Howard Lederer’s tips by clicking on the following link: The Basics of Rush Poker
To continue with the basics: Before you rush out and involve yourself in these kind of online poker games, you should know that Rush Poker is different from standard online or live poker games in the following aspects:
You are up against large pool of players
Your opponents will be selected from the pool of up to 2000 players. This means you are not playing just against 6 or 9 players like in standard ring games, but instead you are facing new poker players basically every new hand.
The importance of table image is thus reduces significantly, but it is still advisable to observe your opponents and how they play online poker.
Time waiting for new hand is reduced massively
Whenever you fold a hand, you are instantly moved to another table and you instantly get dealt another hand. That means no waiting for the table to finish the current hand.
You get to play a lot more hands in the same period of time. According to Howard Lederer’s article, Rush poker allows you to play 300 hands per hour instead of 80 as in normal online poker games.
In the past, you could only achieve this with multitabling (playing more than one table at the same time), but not any more obviously. Ofcourse, you can still multitable on two different limits and play 600 hands per hour with just two tables!
You still pay for the blinds
Perhaps you are thinking something like this: I will only play big hands (like AA and KK) and will fold anything else. Well, you can do that ofcourse, but do not forget that you will still be paying for the blinds.
Do not relly only on the monsters pre-flop. Go out there and steal some blinds in Rush Poker as well, especially when you are in middle and late positions.
Get more Rush Poker Tips from Howard Lederer
To get more Tips about how to play and adjust yourself to Rush Poker games, make sure to read the article from Howard Lederer that I already mentioned above. Here is the link: The Basics of Rush Poker
With that said, I am really interested in what you think about Rush Poker. What is your experience with this game format? What do you like about it and what you dont like about it? Do you make more money with it or this game is not profitable for you?
Please, leave your reply in the comments below. Thanks and good luck at the poker tables!
Latest promotions from Full Tilt Poker – January 2010
Find out about the latest promotions and action at online poker room Full Tilt Poker!
Hey poker players! It has been a while since my last blog post. Hope all is going well for you. Since I have not had an opportunity yet to say it, here it is: I wish you a happy, healthy and successful year of 2010!
At the sime time I would like to thank you for being the reader and subscriber of Online Poker Guide: Thank you!
Today I got some news regarding online poker room Full Tilt Poker and their latest promotions and action. In case you play at FTP, then there is a chance you already know about it as they have sent out an email newsletter about their latest promotions and other interesting stuff. Anyways, here it is:
Video lesson by Erick Lindgren: Playing the final table in MT Poker Tournaments
There is a new video available for you to watch and learn from it at Full Tilt Poker Academy. In this poker video Eric Lindgren explains and demonstrates how to dominate the MTT final tables with a big stack and what to do when things are not going as planned.
Basically what you will learn is how to play final tables in Multi-Table Poker Tournaments from the person who has had big success with it. You can also take the Lindgren Challenge and earn yourself Academy Credits for completing it!
Full Tilt Poker has a new poker format: Rush Poker
If you like to play online poker as fast as possible, then FTP has exactly what you are looking for: Rush Poker! Basically, the Rush Poker is extremly fast paced and intense way of playing ring poker games, where you join a large pool of poker players and face different players every hand.
That means that every time you fold your hand you get transfered to a new online poker table. The time spent waiting for another hand is thus reduced significantly as you immediately get dealt another hand at the table you were transfered to! Pretty cool, isn’t it?
You can play anything from high stakes NL Texas Holdem to micro & low limit Omaha with more than thousands of players participating. Just check out the FTP lobby widgets for information on how many players are currently playing Rush Poker.
I have not had an opportunity to play this poker format, but it sure does sound very interesting. The FTP Pros agree with that, for instance Patrik Antonius says it is especially suitable for grinders.
FTOPS XV starts on 10th of February 2010
Full Tilt Online Poker Series XV starts on 10th of February 2010. This time with 27 online poker events and with a total prize pool of more than $17 Million! You can also win entries for the as much events as you want by playing in the FTOPS XV Satellite Challenges on Full Tilt Poker.
To sum it up: Big action, lots of events and lots of money up for graps. Definitely something you do not want to miss out! That is it for now. Good luck at the tables and see ya around!
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