The online poker cash game tracking site PokerScout released its latest Scouting Reporton Monday, highlighting the actual effects and possible effects of fast-fold games. The first site discussed was Full Tilt Poker, which currently holds the fourth spot in PokerScout’s rankings with a seven-day average of 2,300 cash game players. Software-wise, one of Full Tilt’s biggest claims to fame is Rush Poker, the innovative fast-fold ring game that blazed a trail for other sites and networks to implement their own versions.

Earlier this month, Full Tilt introduced Adrenaline Rush Poker, an even faster variation of Rush Poker. Adrenaline Rush is almost the same as regular Rush except for two key differences: tables are only four-handed and the only decisions players can make are raise or fold. Because of the raise or fold aspect of the game, all action is pre-flop.

According to PokerScout, Adrenaline Rush nabbed nearly 10% of Full Tilt Poker’s cash game traffic just two days after its launch. This was not unexpected, as new games often garner a lot of interest at the outset. Since the early peak, Adrenaline Rush’s share of cash game traffic has fallen back to what it was on the first day it was introduced, about 6%.

PokerScout expects this to change over the next two weeks, though, as Full Tilt has launched the Adrenaline Rush Knockout promotion, which awards players who bust the most opponents each week cash prizes. Because of the all-in-or-nothing style of the game, such a promotion lends itself well to Adrenaline Rush and should draw more players for a couple weeks.

PokerScout also discussed how cash game traffic on the iPoker Network could be affected by the new Twister Poker Sit and Gos on its member sites. Twister Poker launched this week, featuring three-handed Turbo Sit and Gos at buy-in levels of $1, $2, $5, and $10. The appeal here is that the prize pool, which all goes to the winner, is randomly determined prior to the first hand. Players will not know what it is until the tournament begins.

The vast majority of the time (76%), the prize will be double the buy-in. It can, however, be as high as 1,000 times the buy-in, though this will happen only once in every 20,000 tournaments.

In predicting what will happen on the iPoker Network, PokerScout looked at Winamax. On July 13, 2013, Winamax launched Expresso, which is exactly the same as Twister. Expresso was so popular that cash game traffic on Winamax plunged as players migrated to sit and gos, falling 15% to 20% for several weeks before rising back to pre-Expresso levels in September. PokerScout did not make any specific predictions for iPoker, maintaining a “wait-and-see” stance, but the implication was that we should expect to see a dip in iPoker’s cash game traffic.

PokerScout’s Scouting Report is a daily newsletter for the online poker industry, with in-depth data and analysis of the market. More information can be found by clicking here or contacting support@pokerscout.com.

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