Full Tilt Rush Tournaments

In February, Full Tilt Poker (www.fulltiltpoker.com) introduced an exciting new way to play poker called Rush Poker. But last month, players were introduced to an extension of Rush Poker that is quickly gaining in popularity and upping the buzz factor.

In late March, Full Tilt introduced the concept of Rush Poker tournament play, and players are now discovering how exciting and fun this kind of poker can be.

Here’s how Rush poker works: If you’re playing a cash game, you can fold your hand once you are out and you will be whisked virtually to a new poker table where a new hand is just being dealt. This saves time, because you no longer have to wait at the table while the entire poker hand is played.

Rush Poker tournaments are exclusive to Full Tilt Poker and give players the option to use the “quick fold” technique to simply move to a new table. Once the final table is reached in the tournament, however, the tournament plays out normally with no additional movement of players or hands.

Right now, Full Tilt is running two sit-and-gos that use the Rush Poker format. The No-Limit hold ‘em turbo tournaments run throughout the day at www.fulltilt.net.

Players seem to be excited about this new style of play. An April 20 tournament at 11 a.m. had a field of more than 1,000 players.