21st January
2010
My first strategy video in more than four years as a professional poker player. These Rush Poker games are amazing and I think I found a pretty awesome strategy to beat them. I’ll let the video speak for itself. You can post any comments or questions here or directly on YouTube. If it gets enough interest I may make some more.
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Rush poker is just so damn addictive.
This strategy will certainly reap rewards in the short term.
As there is no metagame, players will naturally assume that a raise from the button is loose, producing more 3 & 4 betting, so raises from early position should be respected more than usual…
Addictive it is. Think this is the most fun I’ve had playing poker ever, outside of getting super deep in MTT’s. I hope this grows and grows and grows. The problem I see is that when they roll out 400NL the player pool will be so small that there will be a lot of history – so its not anonymous poker like this. I dig the anonymity because you can stomp all over people.
Strategy is very easy in this game.
1. If people fold to you – no matter what hand you have no matter what position raise 3x the BB and you will usually take the blinds every time (around 65-70%). Don’t even look at your cards. People are waiting for big hands and fold is the order of the day. If anyone re-raises you pre flop fold. If anyone calls or raises before you – fold.
2. If one person calls you and you hit nothing on the flop – bet a pot size bet – 70% of the time they will fold right there and then.
3. With 2 callers again if your the first to act – bet the pot even if you have nothing. One may call you – play your normal game after that.
4. If any one re raises – fold
5. Because of the number of hands, most people who call you will be on high cards, if you call with crap, and the flop hits you – you will be payed off big time.
As no-one can get a read on you – you can use this every single hand and a you will pick up most of the blinds, and most of the pots after the flop. Any hands that go further than that – even if you any win a minority – you will be in front. Your going to win more than you loose – I know, I’ve been doing this for the last couple of days. it will esp. work in the lower stake games.
Its only a matter of time before everyone figures this out. This simply cracks the Rush Poker as being any game of ‘real poker’ at all. Personally, I’m a hopeless player – So my only claim to fame will be this post – the first to provide a winning system to this new form of poker.
That is basically my strategy except I am not raising anything when folded to me: any two suited, any two 45+ connected, any Kx or Ax and PP, any two paint cards and a lot of Qx, Jx and Tx hands as well. I also add in liberal 3-bets and have been doing a lot of cold 4-bet bluffs when people are obviously squeezing. And reading the board and putting people on a hand when they call or check and call my flop/turn bets – then barreling again if the board is right – sometimes overbetting the pot as a bluff. Must be able to read hands and boards well for that though.
It will be very interesting to see how the game evolves. I think it might turn into a very similar situation as you find later in MTT tournaments where everybody knows everybody else is always trying to steal pots pre-flop. Standard cash games is people generally trying to win pots after the flop.
They opened up $200NL but the player pool is much smaller – about 80 players right now. I don’t think this will work as well at $200NL and definitely not with 40ish players at $400NL.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear rush poker will make reads-based poker extinct.
Great to watch the video – and I do like this theme to your blog.
Hey, thanks for the video.
I have a couple of questions for you.
1) Did you make a conscious decision to play six player tables from the get go?
2) Do you see an advantage to playing six handed in Rush Poker?
3) What are your thoughts on the minimum bankroll for this kind of strategy?
Thanks again.
Hi Jordan,
1-Yes I prefer six-max tables because it allows me to play more hands. My edge will come after the flop when the other players make mistakes – this is even more true in Rush where the fish are playing tight pre-flop.
2-I haven’t tried 9 handed but it all depends on your strengths and weaknesses and experience. Six max you have to play a lot more hands no matter how tight you play and will be in more tough post flop spots. I seek those spots out because I think I’ll make the right decision more often than my opponents. If you are not so strong post-flop 9-handed is probably better.
3-This type of strategy would require a much larger bankroll than normal as the variance will be much higher. If you want to play for a living you should have 40-60 buy-ins at least for your desired game. I think in Rush and playing like a maniac this should probably at least be 100. So $10k for $100NL, $5k for $50NL $2.5k for $25NL etc.
If you are a recreational player and just trying to build a roll, not needing to live off of the money, half that would be ok, but not less. Otherwise you wont make the proper decisions. I play way, way overrolled. I had something like $60k on FTP when I was 4-tabling $100NL. With that big of a bankroll I could care less about any one pot or any one suckout or any one cooler. Makes me basically tilt free. If you are playing with most of your roll or a lot of it, bad luck will effect you a lot more mentally and you wont play your best.
Good luck!