Full Tilt Poker Introduces Rush Poker Tournaments

Full Tilt Poker recently introduced Rush Poker to the online poker playing world. It’s an unbelievably popular version of online poker that switches you between active tables every time you fold, so that you’re never sitting there twiddling your thumbs waiting for a hand you’re no longer a part of to finish. Until now, Rush Poker was strictly a cash game offering. But now, as of last Friday, April 16, Full Tilt Poker is holding Rush Poker Tournaments. Looks like it is time to revise my Full Tilt Poker vs PokerStars article.

These are just like they sound, based on the same impatient technology as the Rush Poker cash tables, with a few tournament-friendly tweaks.

Tweak #1: the Quick Fold Button. FullTilt has instituted a Quick Fold button in Rush Poker Tournament play to get you out of a hand you want no part of and off to another hand just being dealt without even having to wait as long as it takes for initial betting to get to you.

Speaking of initial bets, here’s Tweak #2: Blinds. Since moving the button around the table in a clockwise circle won’t work very well (or fairly) when players are constantly table hopping, the players in each hand to be on the small and big blinds are the two players at each table who haven’t been on the small or big blind, as applicable, the longest at their given table.

Tweak #3: Tables in Rush Poker Tournaments go increasingly short-handed as the number of players decreases. Tweak #4: Time to act in Rush Poker Tournaments is shorter, more like a turbo or speed tournament than a standard NL Holdem tournament.

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