I must confess that after sipping from the cup of Rush Poker I now have developed a thirst for this sweet colorful over-sugared new ambrosia. Having experienced the delicious taste of success I decided to delve in to Rush again with the intent of finding out whether I can play it profitably or not against the rake so I jumped back on to the .02/.05 NLHE tables and plunked down a buy in. Sure enough, I have been EV+ with my uber-TAG formula which, simplified, is fold everything and shove premium pairs. As ridiculous as that sounds it has stood the test for over 7000 hands since people will call off ridiculously light. Pocket deuces to a shove? Sure, why not, since ducks have an edge against any hand that includes a deuce in it; otherwise, it is basically flipping or crushed. I think people think that only AK and air shove into just the blinds. Oh well, works out for me.
The real beauty of Rush is that it works well for me. I can employ my absurd play style and get paid. It is EV+ against the rake which means it is even more EV+ with rakeback. It is fast, as in 1500 hands/hour fast when I play four Rush tables at once (they don't allow any more than that) which translates into way more Full Tilt Points/hour and that significantly cuts down on the time needed to harvest them. More points/hour means that I can clear my Iron Man requirements in a fraction of the time which translates to faster and easier clearing of my 50 points and/or being able to target the 100 point days which would allow me to move up to gold or even iron categories and all of the benefits that entails. The big win will be when the semi-annual bonus comes up since Rush will allow me to easily clear the bonus that I am currently on pace for. I had previously calculated that I would need to clear 89 points per day which would have been a stretch before but it will now be trivial to collect the entire bonus so sometime in July or August I should have an additional $200 on the ol' bankroll...minimum. If I bump up my Iron Man status then I would get even more bonus money available to me at the mid-year break.
To paraphrase a common saying..."stuff" just got real.
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I am assuming you are playing jacks or better and folding everything else. My guess is this works if you get called 1 out of 4 times and you are likely ahead in most all scenarios as you describe. Perhaps you should take this strategy to higher stakes like .02/.05. You have the roll for it.
ReplyDeleteThe smallest stakes Rush NLHE is .02/.05 so I'm already doing that. Next step up is .05/.10 but I'm not touching that until I build the roll up more and get way more data under the belt.
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