Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Rush Poker

Aug 9-10
For the first time I moved some money to my account with Full Tilt Poker.  The main reason I did this at this time was to play Rush Poker.  This is a fairly new innovative way to play poker online.  Instead of sitting at a table with nine other players you join a pool of players that could have several hundred players in it.  You get place at a table and are dealt a hand.  As soon as you decide to fold your hand you are automatically moved to a new table with a new hand being dealt.  You do not even have to wait for your turn, if you know you want to fold then you have a quick fold button.  The other players at the table will not know you hit it, and when action reaches you at that table then your hand will be folded for you, but in the mean time you are playing another hand at another table.  Playing Rush Poker allows you to play far more hands then a conventional ring game.  200-300 hands per hour is the range I normally would play.  If you are a profitable player then the more hands you play the better over the long run.  I have avoided the Rush Poker table up until now because I wanted to make sure I built up my bankroll first.  Since you are going though so many hands so quickly the ups and downs of poker and even more pronounced.  You play about 4 times more hands per hours so the swings can happen very quickly.
My time at the Rush tables over the past two days has turned out to be very profitable.  I have only managed to play about 5 hours over two days, but by playing at two rush tables at the same time I saw about 2000 hands in that short period of time, mostly $1-$2 no limit hold'em, and turned in a profit of about $800. 
with 2000 hands I had several hands like AA, KK, QQ and AK to play and ended up getting good action from other when I got them so most of my profits came from situations like that.
One hand I played with 10 10 stands out because of the terrible play from my opponent.
I was on the button one guy raised to $6 from middle position, another called and everyone else folded.  With a  hand like 10 10 I did not want to see the flop three handed so I re-raised to $18.  I could be happy taking the $14 the was already in the pot if they both folded, but the original raiser called me with the other player folding.  The flop was 2 5 7 rainbow, an great flop for my 10's.  He checked and I bet $20 which he called.  The turn was another 7 which also put two clubs on board.  The pot had $80 and my opponent only had another $65 and checked to me again.  I figured if he had an overpair higher than mine then he most likely would have re-raised me preflop and again after the flop, I could not see him calling my preflop raise with any hand containing a 7 so that left a hand like AK, AQ or maybe 88 or 99.  I did not want to risk him hitting a lucky river if he had AK or AQ and thought I would get called by 88 or 99 given the chips he had left so I pushed all in.  He though for about 2 seconds and called, flipping over A 2 off suite and with a blank on the river I won a $210 pot.
With A2 I am not sure why he would raise from early position in the first place, but how he would ever call a good size re-raise, especially when he had another player call his first bet who was still to act behind him.
After the flop he did have bottom pair so I suppose there is some justification for him calling my $20 bet which was only about 1/2 the pot because if I had a big hand and he hit a A or 2 then he would probably win a big pot, but not a move I would make.  How he put another $65 in at the end on with that hand in beyond me.  I am not complaining mind you.  Play like that will help me reach my goal that much quicker.
As of the end of day Aug 10 I sit at $2800 a profit of $2750 in 13 days playing about 2 hours per day means I am getting about $100 per hour playing most at $1-$2 tables.

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