A few comments on Rush

So I've done very poorly with Rush, though I've bled $$$ less than the 1st days I tried it out.

I've found playing for sets often difficult other players would betting or raising 3-4 1/2 times the BB either before or after it got to me. Often I had small pocket pairs (77 or less), that I'd like to limp with, but don't want to risk very much money to see if I might hit a set.

Stealing blinds I had mixed success with. Often the BB would bet 3-4 times the BB or more causing me to fold. So I tried stealing much less often. Similarly with being the BB, all to often some player bets 3 BB's or more and with marginal cards hardly worth calling.

Which brings me to the blinds. I played 514 hands. I may have missed some but this should include most of them. I was BB 56 times, costing me $5.60 and SB 55 times costing another $2.75. That's means I was out $8.35 except for the few times I was able to steal the blinds or the BB was just given to me. When you are marginally going up and down a few $$$ over the session the blinds could have easily eaten any profit you may have made.

So Rush looks like it's good for the site, good for a few of the winning players, but not so good for those of us who are only able to make marginal wins.

It is fun. It doesn't let you really know the players you are playing against, nor is there time to see the results of any round you folded. You can check back to Last Hand History but the game moves so fast there is not a lot of time to look at it.

Time will tell if I should just skip this one all together.