Does anyone who played on FT know how the itnroduction of rush affected the player pool of regular games in terms of splitting the player pool/diluting the fish in the game?

I don't recall there being anything negative.

Heh, seems we're off on a bit of a sidetrack here, but since this is just a thread of idle speculation about something in the indeterminate future, I guess there's no big harm.

You're both talking about the German words. The fact that "blitz" was a German word long before "blitzkrieg" doesn't mean it's use in English couldn't have come from a shortening of "blitzkrieg". That seems to be where dictionaries believe it came from, and it makes sense to me - "blitz" doesn't mean flash or lightning in English. One meaning is a quick attack, like a...blitzkrieg. As a matter of fact, I believe every English definition of the word can in some way be related to a blitzkrieg, but not to flash or lightning.

Regardless, my original point stands either way. Blitz being a poor choice for a name because it might make people think of the blitzkrieg is silly IMO, as is the assertion that it "should" make you think of a quick chess match.

for what reason? i guess you dont like the term "blitz chess" either then.

Suggestion to PokerStars:

In Rush there was fading effect which was hard on eyes and made it harder to multitable. As in Rush make sure you allow to disable such effect and just immediately display next hand.

Also stop waiting with this and pull it out in January already.

yep! I don't like it either. I would hate to see this name because of the origin of the word, like I have explained above.

Bobo Fett confirms it:

+1

Regs played rush as much (if not more) than fish, so normal games were fine

If anything "Blitz" has been hijacked by the NFL ... they don't seem to mind.

The argument that the word has always been around, however, doesn't hold water. The swastika had been around for a long time before the was as well and it is pooched.

That said the case against "Blitz" is silly and uber PC

i agree. too much political correctness ITT. i like the name PS choosed.

have they yet?

Who cares about the name? I want more speculation about how might this be different from Rush? Do you guys have any ideas? I sure don't But it would be kind of lame to just copy rush, especially since it's already been a long time since Rush was introduced...

lol i dont know. let me say then that i like the name OP used

Just admit you were wrong.

is there actually any evidence behind the suggestion that PS is calling it Blitz?

go into "C:\Program Files\PokerStars\gx" and there's some mystical folder named "blitz" which contains image which says "welcome to".

why such a bad name?

Well Rush was taken, and they decided against Meth Poker at the last minute.

I mean it was gonna be called "really rather quite fast" poker regardless of what they came up with.

You are right, the games never dried up. I would hazard a guess that the day before black friday Rush poker probably had its most number of entrants sat at tables.

The only people who will lose out to rush will be those regs not playing it. But thats fine by me.

When will be Rush Poker available again.
Months without playing a poker hand, FTP gone and sites reg infested where everybody is ****ing slow and make gams unplayable, only hope is rush poker for a casual player like me.

not sure, but i remember somewhere reading that public beta testing will begin at the end of January.

check this thread

I hope this will never happened in Stars

Well it looks like it will and soon enough too.

Rush proved very popular on FTP so with Stars' player pool and reputation for actually paying their players I can't see how they won't prove popular there too.

I'm going traveling at the end of the month and this would be the most perfect timing ever. I've been worrying about how i'm going to get in any volume in on my small laptop. Please let this happen.

Hard to say what will happen, but if fish move over to Blitz it would be disaster to regular tables now that the action is somewhat stimulated with recent changes. Will just have to wait and see...