No more rushing around

Internet Poker / Matthew Pitt / 17 March 2010 / 1 Comments

Most of my volume over the past week, around 12,000 hands, has been possible because I have been playing the new craze that is Rush Poker. Though I have thrown in the towel to save my own sanity!

For those who don't know what Rush Poker is a new concept where instead of playing against the same six or nine players, you play against a pool of them and each hand sees you moved to a different table. You don't even have to wait to act, you can click an insta-fold button which instantly folds you and moves you to another table. The upside of Rush Poker is it is fast, very fast in fact I was getting around 250 hands per hour per table and I was playing four tables, so 1,000 hands every hour!

The downside to the game is that you simply can't get any reads from players so you're essentially playing the cards and only the cards. This is all well and good if you select your hands properly but it also means the variance is higher as you can't get away from a tight player's three-bet as you don't know if he's tight or not.

Over the 12k sample, I was actually down as much as 12 buy-ins and up as many as eight but finished around three buy-ins down but in profit overall thanks to a bonus I was clearing and the saving grace that is rakeback. Whilst I admit the game is kind of fun, and brilliant if you only have 10-15 minutes spare and fancy a bit of a gamble but to play it all the time would drive me insane.

Call me old school but I prefer to try and get some sort of read on players when I play them, it's half the fun and challenge of poker IMO, a battle of wits and observation. As said, the benefits of rakeback would be pretty profitable but I do not want to become some sort of rakeback pro, even if the idea has crossed my mind on a number of occasions.

I've been contemplating having a break for a week or two as I feel a little burned out, mainly because I read, write and research everything poker each and every day. Sometimes it's difficult to motivate yourself to play some small stakes poker when you've been reading and writing about mid to high-stakes winning players for eight hours.

So on the poker front there are no real plans, will probably donk around some PLO tables or maybe some PLO8 games and try my arm at the odd MTT. I think the latter, if you can play enough, is the way to go as they are still full of horrible players dreaming of a big score. Myself included!

As always, thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Oh, and Vote for Annette!

Comments (1)

1. Acornman | 19 March 2010

   I'm finding the Pokertracker HUD quite useful for reads at Rush poker.Makes it easy to pin point who to 3 bet pre etc.