Full Tilt Pro Howard Lederer’s Tips for Rush Poker

As many Full Tilt players are now aware, Full Tilt Poker has added a new and exciting poker game designed to keep players on the edge of their seats, as well as on the cutting edge of their game. This revolutionary new form of online poker is known as Rush Poker. Recently, Full Tilt Pro Howard Lederer offered some advice on getting geared up to play this new fast-paced game and how to get the most from your Rush Poker experience.

Howard Lederer, aka ‘The Professor’ offers very sound advice to improve your game and make you a winner in the Pro Tips section of Full Tilt Poker. And with the introduction of the new Rush Poker game on Full Tilt, Howard has a new tip that encourages newcomers to give Rush Poker a go, as it is a refreshing new approach to one of the world’s oldest and best-loved games.

The Rush poker difference is; instead of joining in on a six or nine-handed game, players will find themselves seated in a game having up to 2,000 players. And although players are seated at a seemingly normal table, they will quickly find out that just as soon as their hand is folded, they will immediately be whisked away to another table to play their next hand among a totally different group of players; instead of waiting for the hand in which they folded to finish and continuing to play against the same players. But the biggest difference between normal poker and Rush Poker is that players are allowed to play about 300 hands per hour instead of the usual 80 hands per hour played at a normal poker table.

Howard points out that because players meet a different group of opponents for each hand, adjustments will need to be made to your normal ring-game strategy to be successful in the Rush Poker game. He notes that a big mistake that is easily made is to succumb to the temptation of playing too tight and spending your time waiting for only premium hands. Because you can quickly move on to the next hand, it’s far too easy to simply fold marginal hands with the prospect of a much improved hand just a moment away. However, he reminds players that they are still paying blinds, and that playing to tight will allow the blinds to eat away at your stack. Howard suggests “opening a few speculative hands” such as suited connectors in middle to late positions in an effort to “steal a few blinds.” Yet he also offers a word of caution that players “should give any three-bet a lot of respect,” since players likely will not three-bet light knowing a new hand is only seconds away.

Howard also points out that in Rush Poker, there is no table image. Playing among a different group of opponents nullifies the need for a table image, in addition to the fact that the only person who would know how you are playing - will be you. In Howard’s words “players should be ruthlessly exploiting basic strategy and punishing what should be the more predictable hand ranges of your opponents.”

Howard concluded by reminding players that “playing good poker is all about making the proper adjustments to your strategy, given different playing conditions.” Keeping that in mind, since conditions presented in Rush Poker differ greatly from those in a regular ring game, making adjustments in your strategy will keep you on top of your game and allow you to derive maximum pleasure and profits while playing the fastest game on the Internet.

When you are ready for the ultimate poker rush – log-in to Full Tilt Poker for the excitement of Rush Poker!