What do you guys think of Rush Poker? What are the basic adjustments and tactics that you apply over regular poker?

Never played it however from what I gather just nit it up and virtually nut pedalling should be successful at the micro's. Having read your post (top story btw) this advice may not apply to the stakes you play, although I would assume it to be similar, until you have some reads (I've heard it is possible!) on them.

I like it a lot.

Raise ATC from BTN, fold if 3b. Cbet decent boards when called (K or A-high)
3b medium strength hands from the blinds to a BTN or SB open, cbet if called.

But I'm no expert yet.

Raze, expect to be called down light at micro rush, So no bluffing. Just valuetown your opponents and not yourself. I'd be willing to bet you get sick of it in no time.

lol
me too, but now they have wifi at the pub

Current Roll: $2,786
Current Stake: LHE FR 1/2
Site: FTP

Plan of Attack

I've previously moved up through 2/4, 3/6, and taken a shot at 5/10 using a 300BB brm structure. I found I had been playing under suboptimal conditions and reworked my entire approach to poker. I hired a coach (ship BBB imo), set up optimal conditions, and created accountability. Put together www.avoidthe9to5.com to document and track my progress.

You can see my entire history and graph analysis at http://www.avoidthe9to5.com/blog/?p=17
overall lhe:


To move up in limits I want to make a full 300BB at each limit. I started back off at .5/1, currently playing at 1/2.

When I was playing rush I was much nittier than normal UTG and MP because playing readless being OOP is way too hard without card advantage. In the same way, I was probably looser from CO and BTN than normal because OOP alot of people are playing fit/fold from the blinds.

Wow, Avoid, you move up limits after you win just 3.5 BIs? Is limit holdem that easy, or is it just not that swingy? I play 5NL with like $575, but under your plan I could easily play $1/$2 LHE. I'd be curious to know about your larger swings, both up and down. And is a limit/level beaten if you only played 5k hands there? That could simply be a heater, or if you lose, a cold deck.

I'm only doing the 300BB moveup through the limits I've beaten in the past. (i'm also severely overrolled) Once I get back to 3/6 and 5/10 i'll be spending a lot of time there.

I doubt I'll take my next shot at 5/10 until I've put in a month or two at 3/6 with solid results... and BBB agrees it's time to move up

*edit* also in lhe a 150BB downswing is considered pretty large. 300BB and you need to take the "you're doing it wrong" approach.

Wow 300BB. It seems like a totally different game.

Limit is like a foreign language to me.

lol at full ring limit.

Been wanting to join in on one of these at the beginning.

Stars : $865; beat 25nl and stop going out in the top 100 of 6K tourneys for no money.
FullTilt : $30; start from the bottom, hopefully unlock a few dollars of the bonus.

Goals: stop playing PLO, I think I maybe suck at it?

Breaking even today coz of stuff like this

rabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Poker Stars
SB ($6.15)
BB ($6.15)
UTG ($1.85)
UTG+1 ($17.10)
CO ($23.65)
Hero ($10.15)

Dealt to Hero 8 9

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.30, Hero calls $0.30, SB calls $0.25, fold

FLOP ($1) 2 9 9

SB checks, CO checks, Hero bets $0.70, SB folds, CO calls $0.70

TURN ($2.40) 2 9 9 A

CO checks, Hero bets $1.60, CO raises to $3.20, Hero raises to $9.15 (AI), CO calls $5.95

RIVER ($20.70) 2 9 9 A 4

CO shows A A
(Pre 78%, Flop 8.6%, Turn 97.7%)

Hero shows 8 9
(Pre 22%, Flop 91.4%, Turn 2.3%)

CO wins $19.70

BR: $921.08

Someone else mentioned in another thread that with Rush you should be playing either 8/8 or 30/30. This 100% true, my best results came when I really tightened up my calling range, it's mostly pocket pairs now, and focusing more on folding or 3betting other hands. Calling raises with dominated Ax and Kx hands is death. As for reads, when I'm done my session I'll sit out without leaving the table and open up the Full Tilt replayer. The left hand console will have a list of all the hands you were dealt in to. I find the big pots, which are almost always sets, and make notes on how they played it.

Lastly, I would recommend at least 40 buy ins min. I have had days where I got cracked left and right and was down 6+ buy ins in under a 1/2 hour. Things move fast in Rush, both the good and the bad.

Posting in this thread is EV+

Tilted yesterday due to a few coolers on FTP rush and busted my FT bankroll

Bankroll: $920 on 'Stars

I'm going to transfer $70 to FTP again and grind - No more tilting and no more super turbos

Why not do it straight after the hand? also no need to stop at big pots, i'll make notes on pretty much any non 100% standard hand, i'll green tag the piss poor players, red the regs, yellow the money haters etc.. you'll bump into the same people more often than you think.

KK on a 3way flop and the flop has an Ace

AA kracked

KK AAced

AK gets raised on the turn by a decent player, 'oh i hope he's bluffing', and i call

QQ 3bet and called get outdrawn by 10 8

i dunno, i think i need a bailout

Oh I do that too. I mean looking for hands between others where I quick folded.

Obtain WinMTR (assuming Windows OS here, original package was linux IIRC and ports for OS X exist), find out the IP addresses for the FT servers, then run MTR with that IP. You might very well see problems at peering points (which have nothing to do with FullTilt).

FWIW, I 4-table on FT with no lag whatsoever and I haven't heard of any mass multitablers complaining about lag w/high nums of tables.

What's your SN and when do you drink?

i prefer red for fish. because then its like a stoplight. green for regs means keep goin on through and red means "hey, stop, theres a fish"

Red for regs for me. Red most commonly used warning light colour.

I use red for regs, orange for shortstacking parasites, green for uber fish, and yellow for people I saw do something strange but I'm not yet sure where to put them. I really need to diversify my colour coding system though

BR: $50!


Last time I got $50 up to $350 in 4 1/2 months. Had to withdraw the money to get my mom a nice 50th birthday gift.


Looking to play some SNGs. Standard stuff.