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Rush Poker Strategy and Tips

Rush poker is exclusively at Full Tilt Poker. Rush poker ring games will allow you to see far more hands per hour than a normal ring game. How does rush poker work? Whenever you fold your hand you are moved to a new table and you can also use the “quick fold” button before it’s your turn.

Since rush poker hit the online poker world players have been searching for rush poker tips and sharing their knowledge with each other on poker forums. We will cover both profitable rush poker strategies and share very important rush poker tips.

Rush Poker Tips

In rush poker you must play tight aggressive. If you open your hand range up to wide then most likely you will lose over and over again. You should be folding most of your hands. You need to be playing ABC tight aggressive poker. Which means your hand range must be very small to reduce risk of losing too many hands. Rush Poker starting hands; AA, KK, QQ, JJ, 1010, AK, AQ, AJ, and A10.

Rush Poker Strategy #1 – Short Stacking

Short stacking rush poker is recommended for losing poker players and poker players already short stacking the normal ring games. Pick a rush poker table to sit down at with the minimum buyin which is 40 times the big blind. Whenever you double up your buyin leave the table and come back into the rush poker table with the minimum buyin again.

Important Tip: This allows you to build up your bankroll. However, this also limit the amount of money you can make per hour vs the rush poker strategy below.

Rush Poker Strategy #2 – Bully Short Stacks

This is the most profitable rush poker strategy. While you are still playing tight aggressive from the rush poker tip above, you are focusing short stacks to push all in pre-flop, on the flop, or on the river. Depending on what you holding in your hand and the amount of chips the short stack is holding. Whenever you holding a solid pocket pair and the short stack raise preflop, it’s a good idea to focus him or her all in by reraising to the amount in their chip stack.

For example, let’s say you sitting at the NL$100 ($0.50/$1) rush poker table with $250 in your chip stack holding AA and the short stack came in with the minimum buyin which is $40. The short stack raise pre-flop then you should bet $40 to focus the player all in before the flop is shown. This beats winning small $10 or $20 pots.

Rush Poker Rakeback

Having rakeback at Full Tilt Poker is very important to make a lot of money on top of your rush poker winnings. Full Tilt Poker uses the contributed method. You earn rakeback whenever you put rake into a pot. Since rush poker allows you to see almost 4 times the amount of hands per hour. You can easily play more hands which adds up in rakeback.

For example, let’s say you was playing at the NL$200 ($1/$2) rush poker tables and you was dealt into so many hands that you played a fair amount of them in one hour that your rake added up to $100. Your rakeback for that hour will be $27.