Any Thoughts as to why Rush hasn't hit the micro micro stakes

I would think that a lot of people would like to try it and would do so at the 01/02 level. For STT and MTTs I would think if they have more $1 games they would make even more money than they currently are.

Any thoughts as to why they have not expanded these games.

On a positive not I see they did add a PLO8 game to the Tourney list as a 3.30 re-buy. Promising.

Because the honchos at FTP don't think there is enough rake in micros. The whole purpose of Rush to them is to get rake to tally up more quickly. They know damned well that Rush Poker is not real Poker, so it's purely a money grab.

I agree, RUSH is more gambling than poker.

5nl is the micro's.

Not much different than 2nl. Play that.

^ this.

Chances are it'll make it to $2NL at some point in the future - remember that while i doesn't go all the way down it also doesn't go very far up either: I think they only just added $400NL recently, and that's only medium stakes.

Yep,..I absolutely agree!

Um... all real-money poker is gambling...

That's always open for debate and has been quite a few times on this forum. Depends on the interpretation.

There are those who go strictly by the dictionary definition (money placed/wagered on an outcome) and there are those who go by the "skill versus luck" factor (a poker tournament buy-in is like an auto race entry fee with a prize pool based on placings, etc.).

I remain squarely in the middle of both and I don't want to rehash the debate here. But I cringe when I see posts that address the issue as "black & white". No offense. Just my $.02.

Now post your big blind with those two cents in this $2NL Rush Thing, we're waiting for you. :-)

I'm a little surprised too that it hasn't grown all that fast. There are still the same average number of players in the rush ring games as there were 3 months ago, and the tourneys fill just as slow/fast as then too.

There does seem to be a growing number of MTT's that are rush, but not as many as I would have thought 3 months ago.

For the cheapo's there is a decent selection of Play Money Rush games, both Ring and Tourney, and maybe the true Rush revolution won't occur till those play money players make the transition......

I saw these for the first time yesterday. Hopefully I can add $50 on soon and start playing that. i am really more interested in playing the 1$ multi table SnGs though

I agree this is a topic for another thread (which we've had more than a few of), but I'll just say that sometimes we poker players will rip off our own nose to spite our face.

Oz is correct. And I think if we take a moment to be honest with ourselves, we cannot say that poker doesn't involve gambling. There is obviously a skill element in poker. There is obviously a luck element in poker. Any time you have a situation where luck can play a not-insignificant role in the outcome (and if one thinks luck isn't significant even in "skilled" poker then I'd call them delusional), then it qualifies as gambling. There is a ton of skill in being a successful stockbroker, futures trader, etc., but it's also highly driven by chance and other external factors that the skilled player has no control over.

What we have to get across to the die-hard anti-gamblers is that with poker, we have an opportunity to develop skill in such a way as to diminish the effect of luck. As skill increases, the role of luck decreases. It will never completely go away, but we can overcome it with skill and be victorious in the end. That just absolutely is not true with most of the casino-type gambling.

Anyway, I'm rambling on a derail, so I'll shutup now. I'm in a talky mood today for some reason...

No idea. If people ask I'm sure they'd add it.