RUSH POKER

Ok i tried rush poker again today for the second time.It's already a task trying to read players online in the first place but rush poker makes that impossible.It almost seems like the lottery instead of poker because you get a fast pace game of JACKPOT players.I've read many blogs and posts and 1 thing ive learned is that reading how your opponent plays is as much a part of poker as a good starting hand.My question to the community would be is there any stategic way to play this game?and if so where can i find it?

ABC poker does wonders.

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Thank u both for ur advice i'll see if i can put it use.Still don't see how u can get a read on players tho but im sure i'll figure it out.

You can't really get a read on players in Rush poker.
It's almost purely positional.

Yeah, go back to things like starting hands v position chart and use it.

Or just shove all in every hand.

ABC poker with a little positional play. Also the stack sizes often show a direct correlation with how much I want to play a particular person.

I think people tend to play Rush just like they do normal poker only it speeds up the play and your not sitting around out of a hand. I play the same hands in Rush, the only read I think I get is that if you can fold all the bad hands and select good hands that quickly your opponents probably have decient hands a lot of the time.

If you're rolled for it, try one of the rush sng's.. if sngs are your thing. The $4 have 135 people in them, so you're bound to play people numerous times.. You'll be able to put a little information together.

If you wanted to follow a hand until the end, just click on sit out next hand before you fold, which you would have to do manually.. not quick fold.

I have played Rush Poker a few times and i love it. FTP has now use it in one of its $150 FreeRoll Turneys and one of the Omaha as well. As far as reading a player at the table, its very hard. Many people will Raise pre-flop with no hand. Just because they think they can get every one to "quick fold".
Reading for me starts after the flop. I usually only play premo hands or mid hands ( my quality of card will be different from yours).

Although if i have a suited hand or connected behind the button i will limp if i can. Good luck.

Nonsense. HUDs work and taking notes works.

i have played appox. 100K hands of rush poker.
once u get use to it you find the play there very soft.
play your big hands fast and hard, use position with unraised pots to your advantage even with mediocre hands.
the more u play rush poker the more you will get use to the style most play.

You really need to say what stakes you played when you write this, otherwise it's entirely irrelevant. I'm pretty sure 5nl rush is super soft. I'm pretty sure 200nl rush is very much not so.

Yes BelgoSuisse i am talking about $80 min buy in No limit hold'em

I think it's impossible to get a read on a player because you only play one hand with that player, so you don't really know how they play because you switch tables every hand. Even though you cannot get reads on people, I still like Rush Poker. I do like that you switch tables every hand because u get a chance to play with different people, and not just the same 8 people. I also like that you can fold in the middle of a hand instead of waiting until the end of the hand or waiting until it's your turn. My favorite part about Rush Poker is the quick fold option.

i totally agree with your intire analysis.
i was referring to 10nl.
the bigger stakes im sure is a different animal.

Rush poker is a good variant as its fast and furious. Ive won my biggest pot at .25/.50 with a set of 10's against AQ...all in after the flop but anyway ABC poker is very good here, and stealing blinds when possible to keep you ticking.

What do people think of the rush tournaments. Ive played in alot of $4.40 ones but struggling and busting out, around 20th everytime, but the most annoying this is, im getting my cards in good. So frustrating

Position raises seem to work well if you have a lot of quick folds. Another opportunity is using a small blind raise of about 3 BB when you have quick folds or limps in front of you. A lot of players will quick fold off the SB raise. The SB is the only random blind in this game and it is hard to show a profit if you fold every time in this position. You either get fewer SBs or a lot more SBs in a session, it seldom averages out.

how many reads do you have on your opponents? people talk about reads but I'm pretty sure this is a load of crappers for most.
play ABC poker in position and Vbet. yes, you have less wiggle room than you would if you knew the player better but its not substantial at 5-25nl levels.
if someone 3-bets you in position in 10NL, that's the only read you probably need in order to never play with him again.

I just don't know how to play this format, apparently. I do very, very well at 6-max cash games, but I sit at 6-max Rush and it's terrible.

I did extremely well my first day and then after that I just get steamrolled. People talk about stealing and 3-betting people and being totally positional but it all just seems like total BS because if I don't have the nuts, I'm not winning a hand...everyone is just fold, fold, fold until they have a premium hand, so yeah. I steal a blind here or there but it's quickly lost when people shove all in, or half their stack and you know they have it because...why wouldn't they?

Every session since my first day has followed the same pattern. Unless I'm holding a big pocket pair or I get lucky and flop a monster hand, it's hopless. Any caller at all means I'm facing some monster. It's like someone said above, it feels like a lottery. Or more precisely, a slot machine.

I've lost 2 buy-ins already today to huge coolers. TT, JJ, QQ, all just aren't good enough unless you're lucky and hit a set. Connectors aren't good enough unless you're at a table where no one is sitting on their monster. I just can't find a profitable way to play this format other than waiting on AA or praying to see a cheap flop with a pocket pair and hitting a set. That's the only reason I got lucky and won the first day I played, I hit a few draws against the local, "I got my aces." guy.

It just feels like a terrible format and a rake-producing gimmick.

anyone who says you can't get reads on players in rush poker is either 1) not playing much or (more likely) 2) not paying enough attention/taking enough notes

well i went back and after using some of the tips ,i have to admit i did much better.Now i played in the frreroll and i never made it even close to being ITM but using the tips I made it with in 3 spots of the ITM.I tried the 4 buck game,close but no cookie.For me i found that folding every hand looking for the so called perfect hand is bs .I tried several tactics and folding all the time didnt work for me.Yes i folded quite a few hands but not like before.also playing 1 game and not 3 or 4 at a time helps too.What works for me may not work for you .

Agree.

Because the game moves so fast you think you don't get any reads, but the tracker/HUD does. After playing 20K hands of LHE, I now have usable reads on many regular players. For me that took about 5 days. I'm playing 6 max LHE and there are only 2 flavors availble, .25/.50 and .50/1.0 and the /50/1.00 game never has any players in it. I have at least 1000 hands on several players just since 5-20-2010. 100's of hands for maybe 30% of the players I see. It is early here, I haven't cracked open PT3 today and these are running estimates of what I believe I see.

With PT3 the HUDS come up very fast, and my only problem is that I'm not seeing what villains see about me because as of the current version, PT3 isn't giving me my hero stats in RUSH ring games, nor tourneys for that matter. I find I have to use the FT provided stats to get any idea what my villains see about me.

I totally like the idea of RUSH poker, although I do agree it is not for everyone. However, some people just love the fact that they are not sitting around waiting for others to finish hands.

In my opinion, the best strategy is to play great hands since reads are less effective. As the tournament gets closer to the bubble, you will begin to see the same players. Therefore, just try to remember the name of any big stacker you win or lose a hefty pot from.

INSANE

I think you'd better have a rakeback if you play RUSH :P

The best way to play rush poker is to play only premium hands, and wait until one comes along to enter the pot with a big raise. By being very selective, you will have the best chance of making a good hand. You probably will not know how anyone plays so you will not get a read on them. But you will be moving very fast from table to table that you only need a premium hand to go inti the pot. No thinking about it..If you do not have premium hand, move to another table and see if one comes there; if not move on and on etc. Be patient and bet heavy when your hand comes along. Try it; it works for me. no need to read an opponent because you will be in pre flop with a good hand. If nothing comes, then fold..sendittoken...

The main difference I've noticed in the play in Rush (5NL) is that players will fold marginal hands much more often, so it is very susceptible to blind-stealing when raising from Button, CO or even CO-1. My formula is to try to steal as often as I have decent raising hand and occasionally with nothing. If I get reraised I'll usually just fold. But I haven't seen any form of poker where raising from the button so consistently gets folds.

On the reverse you are going to have to face steal attempts more often when you are in the blinds. I will to reraise or call with a strong hand in the bb and sometime 3bet light with marginal hands. I also do that in the small blind, but less often and in both cases usually only when there is one other player or if I have a monster.

A downside of the tendency of people folding is that when you want someone to play back at you often everyone just disappears and you are left there holding your AA or KK that you've waited 200-300 hands to get. In a normal cash game someone might have, simply out of boredom or frustration, looked you up while holding K-10 or something and you'd have won something other than the blinds.

But generally Rush is kind of distilled, essential poker. One thing it is good for, because so many hands come in so fast, is for you to learn vividly how so few hands are really playable, how so many good hands are wasted because of bad position or the betting of others, how many good hands get beat and how many great hands get flat busted. So you have to imagine how if you were playing a normal cash game you would need the patience of Job to play with the folding discipline that is much easier in Rush.

You learn you have to overcome all the above, not to mention the negative emotions that accompany them, and play well for your legitimate wins, to show any profit. Not easy, which is why so few can do it.

My experience with the rush is usually waiting for a high card or a couple of strong and solid and goes all in.This game is not like me personally.

My experience is that I constantly get stacked by sets. Maybe its just me.

After playing a couple of thousand hands, I have found that I can be more aggressive in Rush poker than in a standard full ring game. Waiting for KK and AA minimizes chances for profit in such a fast paced environment. Since there are so many insta-folds, I treat hands like mid pocket pairs and mid-suited connectors as strong hands and play them identically as I would AA, KK, etc.

As for any consistent table it is vital to specify also the level of stakes that you are playing on the Rush Poker format. Some of the strategy orientations that work well in micro stakes don't work on higher stakes tables and viceversa. As in a standard consistent table as in Rush Poker game.

I think abc poker with a little position play. I've experienced. sometimes stack size show a direct correlation it helps much much i want to play with someone...

i started playing rush poker yesterday.

I started with $150 and ended up doubling my money. 0.10 - 0.25

I then moved up in blinds - 0.25 to 0.50. Tripled my money.

Then the big one. Moved up to $1 - $2

I ended up with $1400 with like 3 hrs play.

I find that playing the strongest hand wins - i was flopping sets all round.
If there is a flush chance on the table - fold, unless u have it.

Watch for pairing on the board (full houses).
If you opponent is betting agressively, and u have a moderate hand just fold.

Do not play weak aces, KJ, KQ, etc.

I love rush poker so far!

Wow antwanpimp that is some seriously aggressively bankroll management.

I tend to play the same as I would in a normal game. (maybe slightly looser because people tend to give you a bit of credit for having a hand since you COULD have autofolded)

I disagree with the thought that you can't get a good read on someone during Rush poker. Online we're meant to look solely at the betting style of the player...and I think you can spot consistencies in many players' betting styles online. Maybe it's just me, but recently I've been finding it's a lot easier to read a player online, even if I haven't been playing very long. Small bets on the flop signaling a top pair. Following up with a big bet on the river to push with two pair. Many players bet the same, and if you can pick out the similarities, you could probably crush Rush poker. But given, it has a lot to do with position, and of course luck of the draw.