Expanding on Rush Poker

This game really has evolved so much. Since I started playing Rush Poker, normal tournaments just seem to move at a snails pace. While playing one $10 MTT last night, I managed to also play 10-12 135 man SnG's in the time that it took to just reach the money in my normal tournament.

The action is just so much more intense and keeps me focused. While the style of play is different, successful play still hinges on playing good cards and playing position in rush. I've found that I need to work on my bubble play in these SNG's. In the $12 ones, I usually have a healthy stack entering the final table and finish in the top 3-4 fairly easy. My problem seems to lie with the $26 level ones.

You would think the skill difference between the 12 and 26 rush tournies would be minimal. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Stepping up to the 26 dollar level requires a greater deal of aggression, especially when it gets short handed. The past 5 tournies at that level have seen me finish in the 20-35th place with 15 cashing. Somewhere along the way, my game seems to tighten up and I don't have enough chips to weather the coin flip scenarios that are dooming me at these critical levels.

However, I feel I'm still playing a strong game and my wins in the $12 levels far outweigh any losses I've incurred overall. In fact, I just barely missed the final table of a large $5 rush tourney with ~500 people and would have easily finished top 5 if not for a brutal 2 outter. Next time we'll be on the other end so I'll just have to keep plugging away.

Til next time see u on the flip side.

Rush poker

Wow it really has been awhile since my last post. Sorry for such a long delay. Work and personal life can eat up a lot of time and before you know it, 3 months have past.

Anyways, since my last post I've discovered this amazing new online game on Full Tilt Poker called Rush Poker. If you don't know what it is go check it out. No waiting between hands! This could be a game changer. I started out playing the cash games cuz that's all the offered at first but now that they have tournies, I haven't looked back. Not having rakeback is a real killer to my incentive to play ring games on FTP.

My very first rush tourney resulted in a 4th place finish for $1200. Not a bad start to a brand new game. Since then I've concetrated on their 135 man SNG's. While they only pay 15, the games are so soft right now that my cash % is somewhere near 40%. While I wish I had more followers, I'm glad there aren't many of you yet so you don't start eating into my winnings and playing these games.

I also got the chance to play the FTOPS main event a couple weeks back. Chipped up early on but made an bad 3 st bluff against a made hand after the flop. I was short stacked for the next couple hours before gettin the chips in with 44 and 8BB left. Oh well, maybe next time.

Til then, see you on the flip side.


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