Rush

Have played a bit of Rush on FT.  If I had more time, I would probably pass, at least while I could still find some decent tables.  Which is funny, because I think that one of the things I do relatively poorly is adjust...both to player types overall and to table history.  I also don't find that I take great notes.  I think those things go together.  So, theoretically, Rush should be right up my alley.  But I want to get better at those weaknesses in my game, and playing Rush makes it harder to do (although I am trying to get some basic notes down on players).

I'll probably continue playing some, though, because my time is severely limited.  Sometimes I'll only have 30-45 minutes to play.  There's not much point to even boot up some conventional tables and search for a good few seats.  But with Rush, I can get in some hands.  I've mostly been playing 100 NL, and it seems pretty easy, but I'm not playing regular 100 NL to draw any conclusions.  I started off pretty brutally in terms of BBs at 50 and 100 (until I realized you could join the same game more than once).  Dollar-wise was no big deal.  Then things swung up, and I think that I ran and played better.  I coolered and got coolered, but I found that whoever was ahead when the money went in tended to stay ahead....super nice for me for a change.

In my regular session on Friday night, though, it was LOL Fridays.  I had one fun stretch within 5 minutes where 3 hands didn't hold...once on the flop and twice on the turn.  Their draws were decent, so no big deal I guess.  But in that same time, I couldn't pull ahead with massive draws...one I had an open-ended straight flush draw and 2 overs to a middle PP that I think he turned into a bluff, but he was pretty bad, so maybe he just way overplayed.  It's kind of like being in a game with a bad ref...fine if your calls are going to suck, but could you at least make them the same way against both guys?  Meh.

I think that I'm still playing OK, but have not shipped off enough hands the last couple weeks for review from folks.  I've just been extra busy shepherding a few things at work.  That dovetails to a question from the comments recently (thanks, by the way, always nice to see a comment once in a while :) ).  The question was about how the balance between wife/family and poker has evolved.  Well, thanks to the last few month's poor results, the money certainly hasn't been more meaningful!  But even as it got to be more meaningful, that is when the results were good, nothing much has changed.  It's still not enough for her to frown upon the time away from her and the family that poker could take.  I still play the odd session at "prime" time, but for the most part, it's when no one's around/awake but me.  I think if I pushed it, I could put more time into it at home, but it would be at the expense of something I value even more, so I don't.