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How to Play Rush Poker

Playing Rush Poker at Full Tilt Poker is relatively simple as long as you are prepared for a fast paced game where you will never get a chance to analyze your opponents. In general, you begin your first hand at a 10 handed table. You may fold at any time during the hand with the all new “Quick Fold” feature. The moment you fold, you are taken to another table where you begin a new hand. So, you are facing a completely different table of opponents with each hand that you play.

Finding a Rush Poker Game

Rush Poker Games are available at the Full Tilt poker lobby. You may access these games in both Standard and Basic view. To locate a game, simply click the Rush Poker filter on your screen and all of the available games will pop up. Currently, Full Tilt offers Omaha and Texas Holdem varieties of Rush Poker. You can play the game with fixed, pot and no limits. Once you have made your choices, a table of available games will pop up where you can see the following options:

• Ÿ  Flop Percentage
• Hands per Hour
• Players
• Type of Game (Limits)
• Stakes

From there, simply choose the game that you wish to play by clicking “Join Now” and a three second count down will begin. As soon as the countdown ends, you will be seated at your first table and the game will begin. You may click the “Join Now” button as many as eight times to multi-table eight different games.

Playing Rush Poker at Full Tilt Poker

When you first begin a game of Rush Poker at Full Tilt Poker, you will post the big blind. Following that, the player who has not posted a blind for the longest time will be responsible for the big blind. Positions around the table and the small blind are selected at random from the player pool. Standard ring games rules are applicable during all Rush Poker games.

To keep the game quick, you may use the all new “Quick Fold” feature out of turn. The rest of the table will not be able to tell that you have folded until it is your turn to act. By preventing players that were seated at a previous table from being matched up again at the next table, no player can gain an unfair advantage over another.

Spotlight On Full Tilt High Rollers & High Stakes Action

All we seem to hear about as far as the high stakes tables at FullTilt are concerned is the ever-grueling dual duels between Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius. But surely that’s not all the action in Full Tilt’s high rollers’ corner. So what else been going on at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker lately?

Well after a bit of a dry spell last week, the action there is actually better than ever, with a new high roller making his presence on the scene in Isildur1. Playing the $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha tables, the player bounced back from a half-million dollar losing streak over about 4,000 hands to win $400,000 off of Haseem Qureshi, a Full Tilt Pro.

Also playing for those $100,000 plus pots are the likes of Brian Townsend, Taylor Caby, David Benefield, Brian Hastings, and Cole South.

And seeming to be more attracted to playing against Full Tilt Pros than necessarily competing at any particular level are familiar names (or usernames, rather) like Urindanger, Ziigmund, OMGClayAiken, and David Oppenheim.

And by the way, if you haven’t heard this wild story – regular Full Tilt high-stakes player Guy Laliberte is blasting off into space…literally. After coming from homelessness as a young man to grow up and found the Cirque du Soleil, the billionaire from Canada has reportedly lost over $17 million on Full Tilt Poker, but says he has no plans on giving up the game because he enjoys it so. Better for all you sharks out there. But you do have to wait for his feet to touch the ground again. We doubt there’s Full Tilt Poker at the International Space Station – but we could be wrong.

Full Tilt Red Pros Lose Big in August: Including Possible New Red Pro Tom Dwan

To say the August was a particularly harsh month for the Full Tilt Red Pro Team is like saying the weather this summer was particularly mild – a major understatement if ever there was one.

Patrik Antonius, for example, was down $576,000 for the month. Even November Niner Phil Ivey himself lost $1.8 million – hopefully he’s getting all the losing out of his system before the 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table rolls around. The Great Dane, Gus Hansen took the hugest hit though – losing $3 million in one month.

Even Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan was down in August, to the tune of around $400,000. But he’s not a Full Tilt Red Pro Team member, you say. Which brings us to the next part of this story. The player made famous through the self-promotional mastery of his Tom Dwan’s Million Dollar Challenge is the latest big name poker pro who Full Tilt is courting. And all signs are pointing to a likelihood as huge as the FullTilt Red Pros’ losses last month that Tom Dwan will indeed accept Full Tilt’s sponsorship and allow himself to be signed on to the Full Tilt Poker Red Pro Team. In fact, a Facebook page on Phil Ivey that Bluff Magazine gives the thumbs-up to for reputability says it’s already a done deal.

Meanwhile, as we await the announcement, a player who made started some big Full Tilt buzz abuzzing with his shielded identity and his big winning streak is known solely by his (or her) username “martonas”. Well, martonas made Full Tilt news again in August by hopping on the pros’ bandwagon and losing big – $700,000 big.

New Look at Full Tilt Poker

FullTiltPoker.com finally gets a makeover! It’s quite a change from the old green background.  I like it, but I’m really used to that old green site over the new black site.  It is definitely more “web 2.0″ looking and I’m sure we will all get used to it. It’s visually appealing, but can be hard to read the text (light gray or white text on a black background sucks!) Overall though I think it was a much need improvement and looks good. This is the first change to the website design since 2004.

What do you think, is the new site an improvement or too dark?

My Full Tilt Check Withdrawal Experience

Full Tilt Poker Check Withdrawals

I have been withdrawing from Full Tilt with the bank wire option, but that option was removed a few months ago.  Ever since then I’ve been cashing out by paper check.  The first check took about 3 weeks!  The next check took about 2 weeks.  Around this time (July), some players had their Full Tilt checks bounce!  Later it was revealed that this was because their payment processor (company that sends out their checks) pulled out with no notice.  Full Tilt replaced these checks, when they found a new payment company.  So, it wasn’t really Full Tilts fault, but there was a lot of unhappy players.
The good news is the last 3 checks I’ve received from full tilt have come about a week. That’s pretty good, and the only one that may be faster is PokerStars.  I receive PokerStars checks in 4-5 days.

UPDATE – My last check withdraw request was on Thursday 2/5/09 and I received the check in the mail on Monday 2/9/09.  3 Business days!! I have received my last few check cash outs within 5 business days.  This is great news for Fulltilters!

If you haven’t cashed out by check yet, here’s the skinny:

• $100 minimum
• $5,000 max
• 1 check per 24 hours
• 2 per week max
• Checks are sent by USPS
• You must scan a copy of drivers license AND proof of address and email it to cashier@fulltiltpoker.com or fax it to 1-877-TILT-FAX (1-877-845-8329) for verification

The only part that was a pain in the ass is scanning and emailing a copy of my ID and utility bill.  I’ve never had to do this at any other poker site.  But I guess it’s good that they are doing this for security.  If you have any questions or need help shoot a message to cashier@fulltiltpoker.com.

I see they also have an “Ultra PrePaid” withdrawal option.  It claims to be the fastest way to get your money from Full Tilt.  I’m going to try this option next and do a write up about my experience.

High Stakes Poker Season 5

The Game Show Network (GSN) has just announced that the fifth season of High Stakes Poker is back!  It will premiere on Sunday, March 1, 2009.  It will be part of the GSN’s “Sunday Poker Night” where they will play a variety of new and old poker shows.

High Stakes Poker is exactly that and gives television viewers a glimpse into the biggest private No-limit Hold ‘Em Cash Game going. Intensity is in the air as players can win and lose hundreds of thousands of their OWN money, sometimes in ONE single hand.  You will see your favorite poker pros betting with their own cash!

Catch the all new action of High Stakes Poker Season 5 on GSN on Sundays starting March 1.  For more info, please check out the Game Show Network website at GSN.com

Phil Ivey Wins Millions in September

Phil Ivey Makes $2.2 Million in September

The action at Full Tilt Poker was fierce all of September and many players have reported having record months. Phil Ivey who I’m sure all of you already know as one of the best poker players in the world has just reported that he made a whooping 2.2 million in September. Phil played a total of 29,756 hands which means that he averaged a profit of $73.93 per hand. If I could make that a day I’d be doing awesome, but for someone to average that per hand is incredible.

A lot of Phil’s success came early and late in the month with not much happening in between the month. He posted a quick million in the first couple days of the month and another million at the end of the month.

Ivey’s largest pot of the month was for 440K against user “Lady Marmelade” on the NLHE tables. Ivey has had an amazing 2008 and has posted a total profit of 4.4 million this year which is ranked second on the cash leaderboard only trailing the famous cash game player David Benyamine. If you go back and count the stats from 2007 and this year though Ivey would be in the lead with 6.4 million with Benyamine at 5.9 million.

As you can see Ivey had one of his best months ever I’m sure in September and I hope that all of you had some luck this past month as well. There is tons of money being thrown around on online poker so sharpen your skills and grab a piece of the pie.

Durrrr wins 280k pot

Recently Full tilt Pro Tom Dwan (Durrrr) called a $6,600 raise in a $200/$400 NL game with 3♠ 7♠ and wins a $280,152.20. Good Call?  I’m not sure who Patatino is though.

Durrrr had position, can afford to call the re-raise, hit flop well against obv. overpair. Not so bad!

See the hand played out here:

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/37362

Tom Dwan is a 21 year old Texan has Full Tilt Poker screen name “Durrrr” has claimed over $2,000,000 in winnings playing high stakes online poker.

Poker Pros at Full Tilt

Poker Pros Play at Full Tilt Poker

Some of the most recognized poker pros spend their free-time in the Full Tilt poker rooms, and you can watch them play and even chat with some of them. On a lot of other poker rooms the pros play under a moniker that nobody can relate to their identity, but on Full Tilt poker all the pros use their real names and also add a picture of themselves.

The world of professional poker isn’t full-time by any means which means all of the pros have lots of spare time. Now many play cash games and do lots of traveling and things of this nature, but when there at home they usually can be found on the computer in the Full Tilt poker rooms. The action is incredible and if you haven’t watched any of the pros play yet on Full Tilt then you’re missing some great entertainment. Anyone can go and watch the pros playing and usually there are hundreds of people who watch and chat in the chat system. Some of the pros will even chat with the onlookers which makes the experience very rewarding. On a regular basis the pots can reach well into the thousands of dollars and on some occasions there will be pots into the hundreds of thousands.

Some of the poker pros that you can watch playing in a Full Tilt poker room are Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, Jennifer Harmon, John Agostino, David Benyamine, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow and a few others as well. This is one heck of a list of poker pros and all are very established players. Some of them play more actively then others in the Full Tilt poker rooms, but nonetheless you can find any given pro on any given night playing in the high limit cash games.

Typically you’ll find the pros on the high limit $200/$400 – $1000/$2000 Texas Holdem or Omaha cash tables. The action is often very fast paced and just watching it gives me the goosebumps. I wish I could sit down at a table with them, but I don’t think I will ever find myself sitting down at a table with blinds over the $10/$20 mark.

From reports that I’ve read from the poker pros who use Full Tilt the pro with the worst luck is Mike Matusow, who himself reported losses of 2.5 million online. I don’t know what kept him going after about the first million in losses, but hopefully he can turn his luck around and get back to even.