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Introduction
On this homepage you will find everything related to rushpoker. It is a brand new form of poker you can only play at Full Tilt Poker.
The fun of rushpoker is the novelty that whenever you fold a hand you get placed at a new table immediately and you receive new cards at once. No waiting periods! Let's look at it in detail.
In the FTP lobby you choose rushpoker and then the stakes you prefer.
After choosing the buy-in a short countdown starts and you receive your first hand.
You have a new button now. Quick fold. When you click it you immediately fold your hand and move to a new table.
That’s all in fact. Rushpoker isn’t complicated at all. It plays very much like normal poker but with the quick fold option it is way faster. It sometimes feels like a video game. Go reading on if you are interested in specific rushpoker tactics.
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Speed of the game
What I love so much about rushpoker is its effectiveness because there are no waiting times at all. If you play four normal tables at the same time you might play a similar amount of hands per hour as if playing two rushpoker tables at once.
But is it more stressful?
In regular poker you are sometimes involved in four important hands simultaneously and you don’t have the time to play them correctly. Then again you all know situations where you fold all hands at all tables so that you have to wait until the hands are finished.
However, if you play rushpoker you can always take a break. It costs you nothing. You don’t lose any blinds or free hands. If there is an important hand at the 1st rushpoker table just sit out at the 2nd table. The whole game is very intensive and challenging though. It was quite hard for me to stop checking mails and surfing around in the net as I did in the past when playing regular poker.
Differences in style
In rushpoker people generally play tighter. Why should you play a marginal hand if you are able to simply click “quick fold” and get the chance to receive a far better hand at a new table? This especially applies for the fishes. They usually have no patience and hate waiting five minutes before playing a hand. At rushpoker they can play a hand after a short period of time even if they fold ten times in a row.
There is less stealing going on as well in rushpoker. If you raise in early position and then you get re-raised by the bottom you will know something very important: His hand – probably – is so good that he didn’t click on quickfold to get a new one. He waited for your bet and he waited for the other players to fold - because he liked his hand!
Table image
In my view the biggest difference between regular poker and rushpoker is the table image.
I don’t want to say that the following scenario is a winning rushpoker tactics, but in rushpoker – at a six-player table – you could raise every hand and might get along with it. The other players don’t know that you raised the last 50 hands in a row (because the player constellations change after every hand) and so they will always give you respect for your current raise. In a regular poker game you would quickly lose a lot of money playing this way. The other guys would get to know you as a very loose-aggressive player and would start to re-raise you with a very wide range of hands, possibly with pure bluffs.
In regular poker you sometimes make moves that look unprofitably if you look at them individually. But in the longrun they add variants to your game and so they are profitable overall. For example, if you only play high pocket pairs and AK when being under the gun you would be quite easy to read. If you sometimes open with a suited connector like 67 hearts people would have way bigger problems to put you on a hand. Analysing this move independently will lead you to the conclusion that playing 67h under the gun will make you lose money – but you win back more money from your high pocket pairs now as the other players don’t know any longer if you just make a bet on a flop you missed with 67h or if you have the AA.
In rushpoker normally no one knows how you play. There is no need to mix up your game!
If playing a suited connector from early position will make you lose money you should never do it in rushpoker. Vice versa, if you think 67h in early position has value (because no one else plays it) the correct rushpoker tactics would be to ALWAYS play it. Not just every here and then like in regular poker.
In regular poker you might like to go all-in only with the nuts. Bad idea, people will spot it and know you have the nuts. So you sometimes need to move all-in also as a bluff.
Perfectly working rushpoker tactics are to only move all-in when having the nuts.
Taking player notes
Many people say you cannot take notes in rushpoker but this isn’t right. If there is an interesting hand going on just click sit out and you will be able to watch the hand until the finish so you won’t be moved from the table.
If you are involved in a hand you think might be worth a note just open the note window (with a right mouse click on the respective player). When the hand is over and you are moved to a new table the note window still remains open. You can write something about the player now.
Bet sizes
This isn’t exactly a topic only related to rushpoker, but it is of major importance there.
The bet sizes of your opponents can tell you quite much about their rushpoker tactics. Someone who opens with a bet higher than 3.5 big blinds (=pot bet) is likely to be a tight player playing only premium hands. Take a quick player note and you learned a lot for further hands.
Position
This – again – is no topic only related to rushpoker, but it is so important that I want to comment on it. Position sometimes presents you with one extra bet – and this extra bet is the last bet in a hand, the biggest bet, the most important one!
There are dozens of examples, but this website isn’t about position. So let’s stick to one:
You play at a 0,5/1 USD table and open with 3 $ holding AK, one player calls you. The flop is 3QA rainbow. You bet 5 $ and you get called. The Turn is an 8. Top Pair isn’t much in rushpoker, so you are happy it goes check/check on the turn. The River is another Q.
If you are out of position the best move is to check. You don’t know if your opponent has hit three queens, if he holds an Ace with a lower kicker or if he even holds something else.
Betting would let you gain little. You might win money vs an Ace with a lower kicker, but a good opponent won’t call you with something like AJ. Vice versa, if your opponent has something like QK your bet will just make you lose money.
Now imagine you are in position. If your opponent makes a bet you can fold unless you labelled the opponent as a fish. Good players won’t make a bet with an Ace only, neither would they call the flop with nothing. Chances are very high that you are beaten.
If your opponent checks you will have learned something about his hand. Because of your check on the Turn the opponent can expect you to check on the River as well. So if he had been holding a good hand he would have probably placed a bet on the River. It is very likely that your AK is the best hand in this latter scenario and so you can go for an extra bet. Either by betting a normal 3/4 pot size or by betting just very small if you think that your opponent will not call a normal bet with a weak Ace.
Auto reload
You should activate auto reload in the options menu. It guarantees you to always play with the maximum buy-in of 100 big blinds. Maximum buy-in = maximum profit! Take a note if someone calls or re-raises in a moderate extent from the big blind position. If you collect several of these notes for the respective player he might use exploitable rushpoker tactics.
Big blind behaviour
Some people frequently defend their big blind in rushpoker, at least more often than in regular poker.
The reason for this behaviour can be explained as follows: They can’t quickfold the big blind. They feel more motivated to keep people honest after waiting for everyone and already having invested money. This rarely applies versus an early position raise but when there is a bet from a player in late position some people posting the big blind smell a bluff on a regular basis which tempts them to play back.
Take a note if someone calls or re-raises in a moderate extent from the big blind position. If you collect several of these notes for the respective player he might use exploitable rushpoker tactics.
Rushpoker rakeback (IMPORTANT!)
Every time a hand is played Full Tilt Poker takes out a small percentage out of the pot. For example in a 1 / 2usd game this is 0.05usd per 1usd in the pot, up to a maximum of 3usd.
So if you and your opponent go allin for 100usd each the winner wont receive 200usd but 197usd. These “missing” 3usd are called rake. The only income of a poker site is this rake.
Now the good news: You can get back some of this rake!
Full Tilt Poker pays partner sites who bring in new customers with a part of the rake which they earn from the new customers. Some of these partner sites pay back the huge part of it back to their customers. This is called rakeback.
The maximum possible rakeback you can find is 27%.
Lets get back to the example from before where a 200usd pot is played. If you had a 27% rakeback deal you would receive an extra 0.81usd in this hand. That not much, is it?
Looking at it separately it indeed looks unimportant but take a look at the big picture. If you play five of these 200usd pots per hour you already have 4usd extra. And this doesn’t include the many small pots that itself are worth very little but also count up.
Exact numbers depend on your playing style. How fast you play, if you play many hands and if you go for big pots or keep them small. But some rough numbers say in a 1 / 2usd game you play about 300 hands an hour and pay about 40usd rake per hour.
With a rakeback deal you would receive an extra 10usd per hour! And this only applies for playing one table. If you play three tables at once you would receive an extra 30usd per hour.
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