February 08, 2010
My thoughts on Rush Poker
As someone who isn’t playing poker full time, I relish any opportunity to up my hourly in any way that I can. I probably put in between 2-4 hours a day playing poker, and I really think that after four, I’d just crap out. Rush allows me to seriously up the number of hands I can play in an hour. I’m not sure if it has to do with minimized eye/mouse movement, but the thought of playing 16-tables of regular poker (which’d give me about the same hands/hr) seems incredibly daunting, yet 4-tabling rush is no sweat. Also, playing rush doesn’t give me the time to tilt…or overthink too many spots and that’s been really helpful.
Of course, in this new culture of looking up everyone’s results, it kinda sucks since rush hands aren’t tracked (yet). I try not to sweat things too much, but the fact of the matter is that my results on these sites isn’t stellar and there’s a significant part of my potential client base that will look at those results and deem me unfit by their standards. It upsets me a bit, but there’s nothing I can really do (except post occasional graphs and results here lol) and stressing out about results is one of the best ways to hurt my thought-process and overall winrate. I need to stay focused on making the best decisions. Results and money will follow. :D
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2 Comments:
DJ Sensei posted on February 09, 2010 at 04:46 AM
I think rush poker is probably awesome for smallstakes FRNL regs who can now play as many hands while 4-tabling (or 8-tabling?!?) as they could on many more tables normally. Wonder what effect it'll have on the regular games though?
RapidEvolution posted on February 09, 2010 at 13:17 PM
Early on, after rush poker started, I noticed that the non-rush tables were a LOT softer. Even at 10am EST on a Tuesday, there were plenty of fresh faces and very few regs. My guess is that a lot of the tighter players (who are basically rakeback whoring) are just taking advantage of the fact that they can get in 10k hands a day now. I've started using the importer for HEM and finding many of the regs are 12/9 and tighter.
Jesus...8tabling? I know some people who've done that but it seems totally insane. Plus the people I know who do it split it between FR and 6max and I think I'd rather split it between stakes (maybe 4 of 100 and 2 of 200 if it's ever running with more than 24 entries.)
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