Got an e-mail today from Merge since I am an affiliate and get frequent communication from them. This is very exciting and I saw no mention of it here so I thought I'd post. MODS please delete if this has already been posted.

"The Merge Gaming Network is rapidly expanding and keeping up with current trends in Online Poker. With Merge being the fastest growing network in the industry, it is adamant we remain on top of new technologies available to the players. Merge is proud to announce that that development phase of DASH POKER is now complete and we are currently seeking beta testers for our product. Please reply to this e-mail or contact xxxxx at xxxxxxx if you wish to participate in the beta phase. We hope to be up and running on all our skins by May 1st, 2012."

Thoughts?

Do they have enough players on the network for it to work above 50nl?

dash poker is the worst name I've heard for rush

That's amazing. And wonderful. Any chance you wanna share the email address for beta participation? ;-*

Do you really care what it's called?

What were you gonna name it then?

Hyper Poker
Speed Poker
Fast Poker
Hurry Poker
Quick Poker

???

Now if only they could do payouts in less than 2 months.

Good new for the U.S player I guess.

fixed limit rake still 5BB/100?

Please be true. Please be true.

Just treat your balance like 90% of what it shows and cash out via p2p. Gotta salt that vig, baby.

They used adamant when they meant paramount.

But it does seem they are interested in software development which can only be a good thing.

Good news I guess but I wonder how well the games will run.

Are there even 200 unique players playing FR and/or 6max NL50 on merge right now? Will they all wanna play rush poker? What happens when theres NL25 NL50 NL100 and NL200 dash poker... how good will the games be then?

This will be great for the colluders on merge, thats for sure

rush, zoom, etc aint poker. it will help fish to comprehend poker faster which is not good for online poker.

The FR 200nl rush broke down after a while post black friday, so I can see it working on Merge.

Hope this is true, I miss RUSH PLO so bad I've been playing for free on Stars lately.

Anything Merge does to try and increase market share is a good thing for U.S. players. I like that they are trying to grow.

2 of these 5 are already taken.

I call shenanigans on the OP, if for no other reason that the misuse of the word "adamant" and the double "that".

Whoever wrote that email is borderline illiterate.

Lol rushaments. Companies running out of ideas to attract fish.

I must be the only one who didn't like Rush on FT and I can't play Zoom on Stars.

These games play to nitty and it kills the average games that most would be playing instead of playing Rush/Zoom.

I don't think this is good news

i actually like the name way more than "zoom"

fixing this and faster cashouts should come before "dash" poker, ainec.

Other sites should follow quickly or they'll run out of names.

I like this btw, it gives recreational players a lot more hands which makes them more inclined to play more sessions aka good for poker imo.

Isn't rush patented? I'm a bit surprised everyone is allowed to use this concept.