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Article: The Rush of Full Tilt Rush Poker

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  1. thearthurdog thearthurdog is offline

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    Jan 20th, 2011 (1/20/2011 7:18pm)

    You can view the page at http://www.pocketfives.com/content.p...ilt-Rush-Poker
  2. haysuselizard haysuselizard is offline

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    Jan 20th, 2011 (1/20/2011 9:10pm) in reply to thearthurdog

    no offense, but your n of 77 (per pokerdb) rush sng's is not enough to draw any significant conclusions regarding results, quality of play, or anything else. I think 500 is a good number to evaluate
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    Jan 20th, 2011 (1/20/2011 10:44pm) in reply to thearthurdog

    LOL I gotta few more than 77! I agree with you in theory, although I think often you can get a good idea of a certain type of game pretty quickly. No offense taken BTW - thanks for reading.
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  4. haysuselizard haysuselizard is offline

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    Jan 20th, 2011 (1/20/2011 11:14pm) in reply to thearthurdog

     
    Originally Posted by thearthurdog View Post

    LOL I gotta few more than 77! I agree with you in theory, although I think often you can get a good idea of a certain type of game pretty quickly. No offense taken BTW - thanks for reading.

    The only reason I looked on DB is to see your ROI because I'm interested in what is a good number for the rush on demand format. A friend and I have a 500 tourney challenge.
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    Jan 21st, 2011 (1/21/2011 5:35am) in reply to haysuselizard

    I think Rush Poker taps into the same part of the brain that makes people addicted to slot machines.
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    Jan 21st, 2011 (1/21/2011 7:49am) in reply to MarcusLC

    Theory sounds solid to me. I find if I play to many games at once I end up making silly errors. Having said that, I'm not that good and don't have the brain power to multi table like the pro,s. Might try a game tonight. Interesting article arthurdog, good one
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    Jan 21st, 2011 (1/21/2011 11:25am) in reply to philpy

    Good article.
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    Jan 21st, 2011 (1/21/2011 1:54pm) in reply to Mr Gobbles

    Good read.I also have training in psychology including some beyond the college level. Rather than pinning these effects solely to a heightened state of arousal (which may be true), I think a simpler explanation is that cognition (thinking, brain power, mental resources, etc.) is a limited commodity. When this commodity is stretched we have to adjust. We can adjust in lots of ways, but certainly one scientifically documented effect of the over-taxing of cognitive resources is poor decision-making. Thanks again for the good read.
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    Jan 21st, 2011 (1/21/2011 2:52pm) in reply to tomikaze

    great read! i'm wondering if taking a quick cold shower every now and again during a session might help. good luck keeping your "heightened state of arousal" with ice cold water splashing all over your birthday suit!
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    Jan 22nd, 2011 (1/22/2011 8:01am) in reply to emptypockets

    I enjoyed this without ever having played rush poker- I find now that with 8-10 tables my emotions/decisions are good and calm, but if I add certain types of music I can get off my game-just thought I'd add that and see what you thought...
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    Jan 22nd, 2011 (1/22/2011 10:53am) in reply to BDSPKRSTR

    I have no doubt that music can have that impact.
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