FTP giving away 5$ today to try Rush Poker

We'll give you $5 to try out Full Tilt Poker’s latest innovation: Rush Poker*. A new way to play, Rush Poker* is the world’s fastest poker game.
Here's what you need to do to get your $5:

• Earn 10 Full Tilt Points by playing in a real-money Rush Poker* game
• All points must be earned by 23:59 ET on February 4th
• Your $5 for playing Rush Poker* will be released to your account within four hours of earning all 10 points

Anyone else get this? It's very tempting. Wonder how long it'd take to earn 10FTPs at 10NL.

23:59 on Feb. 4th? According to my clock it is now Feb 5th.

wow good catch. :P I just updated the software and that popped up when I logged in. Weird. You may have saved me some moneys!

I did not get this, but it sounds like a good deal. One problem I see is that you are posting this on 2/5, but it expires on 2/4. Kinda later to use it? Good luck if you get a chance to do so. I tried Rush once and it was fun. More something to do for fun it seems. Of course if you could master that style of play, there is a lot of cash to win quickly there.

it's a moot point, but you would probably get 10 FTP in 20 min at 10nl Rush. But it would also depend on some factors including how tight people are playing. Its directly related to the rake.

Cool. Ty for the info. Ya, it's pretty strange to get a system announcement a day late.

10 ftp is ~ 1.50 in rake. so I think that means ~13$ of shared rake at fullring, 10 nl average pots of $1+ with 6.5% rake...seems like would be less than 200 hands?

...just played the 6max 10nl ante game with ~2.50 avg pot, made it to 10 ftp in 60 hands or so.

Got this as well, can't justify taking the crack just yet.. Make it $50, and maybe I'll bite.

I gave it a go at 10NL Rush. Wasn't bad. Made like a 1$ and just played til I had 10 FTP's. I can't turn down FREE MONEYS!

I got the message today as well. Noticed the deadline was yesterday and decided now wasn't the time to play cash games for the first time. Losing $20 to have FT not give me the $5 just didn't seem like a good idea.

it was just a misprint on FTP's part. Did the promo and they still shipped the 5$.

^^^
Wisdom unmatched!

So all you have to do is earn 10ftp in rush poker? anyone know if its still going on?

I think it's over '&' I think you need to have received an email from FTP inviting you to check it out (I never got one but already had ~1,000FTPs on RushPoker.... they already know I'm hooked on CrackPoker so no need to offer me a bonus to check it out)

i tried it out and got my free $5 and also made $5 profit playing .05/.10 for 20 minutes. the antes seemed a bit over the top in my opinion, i don't see myself playing rush poker again. i think playing regular ring tables are far more profitable.

So whats up with rush poker? How does it work. I tried to sit and watch a table and it woundt let me observe cuz i have no money of FT

You cannot observe tables as tables are constantly changing. The best way to try it out without money is to try the play money version. Hope this helps

watch the video posted in the rush poker thread Rush Poker!

or the tutorial here

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rush-poker

I got the offer a second time yesterday. It's not an email - instead it pops up when you log on. It includes a link to the internet with details. This time the offer end date was actually in the future - yeah FTP! - either midnight last night or tonight, I can't remember which.

I got that popup a couple hours ago while watching a friend play, decided to try out some rush figuring I could fold my way to 10ftps and atleast a couple dollars profit. Ended up doubling up with Aces then quitting after seeing I had made 10ftps already. Then realized it was happy hour and had to earn more ftps so I joined again. Up a total of $7 during the 2 small sessions in 128 hands buying in for the min $4. I thought the rush tables started with 1/2c?

Should get the $5 bonus within a few hours.

Yup got my $5. Not bad up $12 for maybe 30 minutes.

CrackPoker. LOL - well put! I didn't get the message either but since I found out about rush poker, I'm pretty sure I've played several thousand hands and definitely racked up around 1000FTPs or so. So much for my plan to stick to single table SNGs!

The promo just popped up for me again, and replaced the date with "today" - probably just a typo before. Ha! Might have to give it a try tonight after all with real money.

They're really persistent, just got another one that said I've got a week to complete it. I finally gave in though, bonus cleared.

got my five

Saw the pop-up, Thought I'd run a bit of 2/5NL.

Damn Rush poker - exposes my leak badly:

Full Tilt, $0.02/$0.05 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

CO: $5 (100 bb)
BTN: $2 (40 bb)
SB: $7.75 (155 bb)
BB: $5.38 (107.6 bb)
UTG+1: $4.54 (90.8 bb)
UTG+2: $1.17 (23.4 bb)
MP1: $4.07 (81.4 bb)
MP2: $1.93 (38.6 bb)
Hero (MP3): $2.33 (46.6 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is MP3 with T A
UTG+1 raises to $0.20, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.20, 4 folds

Flop: ($0.47) A 2 2 (2 players)
UTG+1 bets $0.47, Hero calls $0.47

Turn: ($1.41) T (2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $1.66 and is all-in, UTG+1 calls $1.66

River: ($4.73) K (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: $4.73 pot ($0.31 rake)
Hero showed T A (two pairs, Aces and Tens) and lost (-$2.33 net)
UTG+1 showed K K (a full house, Kings full of Twos) and won $4.42 ($2.09 net)


****ing into it now for $4... guess I better clear the bonus...

i got the reminder thing 2 day i have till sunday to try out the rush poker

o well not botherd lol not gunna bother.im putting money on next friday so i can play in the memorial buyin and the friday and sat games