rush pokerOne of the internets most popular and dominate poker room, Full Tilt Poker launched an innovative new game of Texas Hold’em that has every major poker related website and forum in a heap of discussion. The game is called Rush Poker and poker players are now putting 300 to 400 hands per hour.

The speed of the game is extremely fast and a perfect fit for the Texas Hold’em action junkies. What makes the game so fast is the ‘quick fold’ button. If a player is dealt 7-2 under the gun they can click ‘quick fold’ and they will be taken directly to a new random table immediately, without having to sit through and watch the hand play out.

So far, the results and feed back from Rush Poker has been fantastic. There are hundreds of players playing in the NL10, NL50 and NL100 sections. There have been peaks of over 2,000 players online playing Rush Poker, which are incredible results for this new game.

Rush Poker has generated a ton of strategy decisions all over the internet. Players are saying that being tight aggressive is the best approach and many other poker enthusiasts are supporting the loose aggressive style.

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Overall, from the couple hours I’ve spent playing, I noticed that the average player is playing far more nitty than normal. I assume this is due to the ‘quick fold’ option where they don’t feel the need to spew, knowing that they can get dealt a new hand in one mouse click. Players who aggressively attack the blinds and play the top ten hands in early positions should show a lot of success in the early months of Rush Poker.

A very positive aspect to the quick action is that no HUD or other statistics are provided to the savvy online poker player. Meaning that players will not have reads and player tendencies, giving the fish an equal playing field.

It will be interesting to see if this game will continue to receive attention or just fade out. Full Tilt Poker has applied for a patent for the variation, meaning that it will be very unlikely for their rival, PokerStars to release a similar product.