Any Rush players?

[manfredi]

With a format like Rush, what is the tightest range you can play to be profitable? Can you play only AA/KK and beat the blinds? I'm imagining many tables...

[grnydrowave2]

With a format like Rush, what is the tightest range you can play to be profitable? Can you play only AA/KK and beat the blinds? I'm imagining many tables...

Why would you think that Rush is a good format for doing that? That's the sort of adjustment you would make for an extremely loose/bad dynamic. If anything, I think Rush plays a bit tighter than usual. Maybe that could work at 5nl, but anything above that and the blinds will eat you alive.

I think a big key to beating Rush is exploiting the bad robotic regs. Due to the nature of the game, the player pool typically has a higher reg:fish ratio. Most fish will only play 1 or 2 tables, whereas the regs will play 3 or 4, so the pool gets more saturated. There are a lot of extremely nitty guys 4-tabling, probably thinking that they eek out a higher hourly and lower their variance since they get so much volume. Maybe they do alright at it, but those guys are easy to exploit, even by people like me who aren't great at poker.

[Penneywize]

. Most fish will only play 1 or 2 tables, whereas the regs will play 3 or 4, so the pool gets more saturated. There are a lot of extremely nitty guys 4-tabling, probably thinking that they eek out a higher hourly and lower their variance since they get so much volume. Maybe they do alright at it, but those guys are easy to exploit, even by people like me who aren't great at poker.

This is different from regular ring game how? Do you mean to say ring games don't have the same issue, where regs play many tables and the fish play only a few?

By the way, if you think you're not great at poker then why are you playing 50s

[grnydrowave2]

This is different from regular ring game how? Do you mean to say ring games don't have the same issue, where regs play many tables and the fish play only a few?

By the way, if you think you're not great at poker then why are you playing 50s

After giving it some more thought, I think you're right. At normal tables regs are multitabling way more, so those games are saturated too. And playing one table of full ring Rush is the equivalent of playing 4 regular tables, which is more than a lot of fish would normally play. So the ratio might actually be more desirable at Rush.

I'm playing 50nl because I beat 25nl FR at a good clip over a decent sample, and I'm rolled for 50nl. It seems like the logical thing to do. I don't think 50nl is very tough, but if I can't beat it for whatever reason, I can always move back down.

[Penneywize]

After giving it some more thought, I think you're right. At normal tables regs are multitabling way more, so those games are saturated too. And playing one table of full ring Rush is the equivalent of playing 4 regular tables, which is more than a lot of fish would normally play. So the ratio might actually be more desirable at Rush.

I'm playing 50nl because I beat 25nl FR at a good clip over a decent sample, and I'm rolled for 50nl. It seems like the logical thing to do. I don't think 50nl is very tough, but if I can't beat it for whatever reason, I can always move back down.

ok, on to the next question, then: How the hell are we supposed to pronounce your name? I've been sort of mentally pronouncing it 'grine-ydrowave', rhyming with microwave. This doesn't make a great deal of sense however. I am very tilted by this.

[grnydrowave2]

ok, on to the next question, then: How the hell are we supposed to pronounce your name? I've been sort of mentally pronouncing it 'grine-ydrowave', rhyming with microwave. This doesn't make a great deal of sense however. I am very tilted by this.

Yeah, sorry about that. It's a handle I came up with when I was about 13 years old. I originally wanted the name GreenHydroWave because I thought it sounded awesome at the time. Whatever I was registering for had a character limit, and I was stubborn and uncreative, so I condensed it into grnydrowave. I continued using it for username logins out of habit. I was about 18 when I registered at FTR, so I guess I was still in that habit.

I wish I could change the name, but as I recall, the mods here at FTR clamped down on that a long time ago.