Rush looks super fishy, super fun, super fast. But in reality, it's pretty much a crapshoot. Not only do you have to adjust your entire strategy, but its impossible to get stats on a person and/or tell if they are just getting too attached to their blinds/chips or just holding super good cards. Everyone complains about bad beats, and the rush poker set up only perpetuates it.
Synchronized breaks only affects tournament players and really would only help tournament players playing numerous tourneys at the same time.
Though it has little effect on me, I'd think the reorganization of minimum buyins on cash tables was very significant.
This.
The death of the SS, at least on FTP, gets my vote.
My comming of age and depositing online ofcourse.
Its very good for holdem players becuase I spew teh monies.This was actually a close 2nd for me.