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I'm no Pro by any means, and am only now starting to log some hand histories that will be worth while. I'm playing micro Rush, usually $.05/.10. I was having HUGE swings in my game; steady up going and massive downslides. It forced me to play 'tighter' than I would like, but at the same time I think it's really helped me to figure out the value of certain hands as well as position. I've read quite a bit of opinion that Rush is just gambling or its not "poker" because of how you're flying through tables. I don't actually don't disagree with those opinions, but my thought is that maybe what's it's really good for at the micro levels is focusing on a tighter game.

None of this really dawned on me until I came across this hand the other night where I was on the button with AKoff, the cutoff raised, I reraised him, the SB three-bet me, and the cutoff four-bet him! The SB was a shorter stack than me and the cutoff, and the cutoff and I were similar stacks. The point is that I had never been in this situation at a micro stakes level (although I play some $5/10 live and have been in something similar), and had to actually think about the situation. I ended up folding for the reasoning that I figured one of the had to have a pair and the other may have a suited AK (essentially killing my outs to a chop at best)or bigger pair and I didn't want to get squeezed with a drawing hand. Oddly, I was correct and the SB had 99 and the cutoff had AK suited, which missed and he lost the hand.

Any thoughts on this idea, and/or the hand that I laid down?

Oops, meant to say that "I don't disagree with those opinions" on Rush...

only difference between rush and normal tables is there's less time between hands. th eclocks are the same, the thinking time during a hand is the same.

but you can play the same number of hands in rush in less than half the time. just gotta play the games the same way.


i think you played it fine.
as long as you keep going through the propper rational, you'll have no troubles on rush tables.

Well, there's a lot less individual history/reads at rush, often none. And if you're playing 4 tables you'll probably be tighter - that's the case for me, anyway.

That's going to be a good fold in the long run imo.

Thanks.