Rush Poker is a neat game, and in many ways it's not any different from normal poker. However, there are enough differences between Rush Poker and standard poker that you're going to want to tweak your game, at least just a little bit.

How you should you adapt your strategy for Rush Poker? Well, you should start by thinking about how the nature of the game changes the average player's approach to poker. Rush Poker moves very quickly, so what is that difference likely to do to the average player's approach? Oddly, the same way Ritalin impacts people with ADD – speed slows them down – Rush Poker makes players who would normally be very impatient quite patient. The ability to just click a button and see another hand straight away takes a lot of the frustration of waiting for a good hand out of the picture.

How should this fact impact your strategy for Rush Poker? Well, you have to deal with the fact that people are going to be playing fewer hands, bottom line. And if they're playing fewer hands, what hands do you think they're going to be cutting out of the equation? That;s right – the bad ones. The result is that you're less likely to run into garbage hands making the nuts (fewer straights with 36, for example) and you're also less likely to run into bluffs.

You'll also see a lower level of aggression across the board, simple because if people are playing fewer hands, they're not as inclined to make strong moves with marginal hands. It's not rocket science – a lot of average players make aggressive moves not because it's correct to do so, but simply because they're bored. Rush Poker alleviates a lot of that boredom, and in doing so, takes those plays out of rotation.

How else should you adjust? Another important thing to remember is that there just aren't the same player dynamics in Rush Poker. Since you're constantly moving from table to table, you do not build up the same history with opponents, so whatever part of your game that you've based in player dynamics won't be applicable in Rush Poker. That doesn't mean you should ignore that aspect of the game entirely – it just means that moves you would normally make to set up some kind of play down the road don't have a lot of utility when you're playing Rush Poker.

Without a doubt, Rush Poker is one of the most interesting things to happen to online poker in a long, long time. Strategy for the game doesn't need to be wildly different at this point, but you can be sure that as the game of Rush Poker continues to evolve and grow, more and more distinct strategy crafted solely for the game will continue to emerge. Hopefully this brief guide to Rush Poker strategy has given you a starting point for thinking about how you can adapt your current poker strategy to fit more optimally with Rush Poker.