Rush Poker on FTP

Thoughts?

I think you're a bit late to the party, everyone posted their thoughts in the thread that happened the day it came out.

yeah i would suggest the search function

my bad

On March 19 2010 14:40 Wreckognize wrote: my bad

hehe, it's not a problem, i just didn't want you to expect everyone to come in and tell you how they feel about rush poker beyond maybe two sentences

so what is "rush" poker?

it's fun and in large pools there's lotsa fish

so its like poker without reads and dynamics right?

Why would anyone play that again?

On March 19 2010 16:47 LemOn[5thF] wrote: so its like poker without reads and dynamics right? Why would anyone play that again?

I have much more reads in rush than I do when I played regular FR.

So you suck at observing regular tables? -.-

Oh wait, fullring robots dont observe tables anyway my bad, Rush must be awesome for all the masstablers, I don't know why they would play anything else

I think rush can be a good tool for beginners, to teach you how to only play optimal situations. One of the biggest problems players have is patience, waiting for truly +EV situations. People get bored and want to play hands they shouldnt, or lose focus when they have an optimal situation. Since you can just click your way through all the bad hands in rush, it's easy for you to setup one +EV situation after another. The game is virtually variance free especially considering how you can limp into pots without running into too much trouble. You can put money into the pot directly proportional to your hands value. Pocket 3's in the CO? Just limp in. AA UTG? Raise 5xBB. With every hand you play, just ask yourself one question; "how much money do I want to spend on this hand?"

There are a few quirky exploitative tactics you can use, such as raising every BTN in an unopened pot, 3betting every button raise from the blinds, and 4betting over any resteals when you are again on the BTN. These are best saved for players who have over 100BB stacks, as you are just trying to think one level ahead of them. And even then it's totally unnecessary. Vs fish I would restrict myself to a single attempt on their blinds and nothing else.

Ultimately I still standard ring game to be more profitable, since your goal in poker is to put people on a hand and then get as much money out of them as possible. Would you leave a table you just sat down at after stacking some fish who went allin with bottom pair? Of course not, he's your honey pot, you stay all night as long as he's willing to reload. And do you really want to lose your whole stack with every overpair to a nit you didnt know only setmines? You have no way to know if firing JJ on a 6782 board is for value or if you are already drawing dead.