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Rush Poker Tournaments Now at Full Tilt

With the popularity of Rush Poker as a cash game, it was a matter of time before FTP rolled out a MTT version. As of today, tournament players can now get their fix with Rush Poker tournaments on Full Tilt.

Rush Poker has certainly been one of the more interesting and talked-about innovations in the online poker sector over the last year. The format, which essentially takes a pool of players and moves them into new tables each hand, allowing for a much quicker game-speed, proved to be a hit for Full Tilt Poker.

For a more detailed explanation on how Rush Poker works, check out this article.

Now, Rush Poker is available for tournaments as well. The beta release of Rush Poker MTTs seems to have been a bit rocky for Full Tilt, so expect the roll out to be a gradual one, but the core is present and it shouldn’t be too long before RP MTTs are available at a variety of limits.

Some details, for those interested:

How do you find Rush Poker tournaments?

They’re listed in the MTT lobby with a black R symbol next to the tournament name. In the Standard view, you can either use the main filter (show below) to access Rush tournaments…

… or you can use the Advanced Filter, which now has a radio button for Rush Poker MTTs:

How do Rush Poker tournaments work?

At the heart of it, Rush Poker tournaments are the same as regular tournaments – whoever gets all of the chips wins the tournament. That said, the Rush poker format clearly requires some alterations. We may see these evolve over time, but here are the key differences at this point:

- There is no hand-for-hand play in Rush MTTs. Typically in a tournament there will be a “hand-for-hand” period near the bubble or big money jumps. This means all tables play one hand before any table moves on to another hand, and it stops people from stalling in an attempt to move up the ranks. Rush will lack this feature, but Full Tilt says they’ve got other mechanisms in place to prevent stalling.

- Tables will play down further before being combined. FTP says that when a tournament gets down to 30 players, tables will continue to run without combination until a final table is reached.

There are also some key differences between Rush MTTs and Rush Poker:

- When a Rush MTT reaches the final table, it reverts to a typical tournament, as there’s only one table left. This table can also, unlike other Rush tables, be observed by other players.

- The way that the blinds are posted is different. Rush Poker tournaments will consider both the number of hands and the amount of time passed since the last time you posted the blind. Whoever has the biggest number gets the blind. Additionally the small blind is also tracked now, as opposed to just the big blind.

Rush Poker is only available at Full Tilt Poker. If you’re thinking about signing up at Full Tilt, make sure you read this first.

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