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There are advantages and drawbacks to Rush. A lot of people who don't like Rush will focus on things such as lack of table dynamic, reg-to-fish ratio, stunting your development, lack of reads, and inability to table select. The obvious inherent advantage to rush is sheer volume. It's a lot easier to to play 3 or 4 tables of Rush than it is to play dozens of regular tables. You don't have to worry about tables breaking up. You can start and end sessions very quickly without any delays.
There is another, lesser known advantage to Rush, but before I mention it let me digress for a bit about reciprocality. This is a word Tommy Angelo made up to describe doing things differently than your opponents. When you and your opponents do certain things exactly the same, there is no edge. When you are doing something different, one of you has the advantage and the other is at a disadvantage. Obvious, right?
At Rush, I believe that hardly anybody is taking notes (this may not be the case at higher stakes). I'm sure a lot of regs are using HUDs, but that's it. It's just a lot harder to take notes at Rush because you don't watch hands that you're not involved in. Even if you are involved in a hand and pick up on something, you have to take that note before you're whisked away to a new table, which isn't always possible. There are little things that are easy to pick up on at regular tables because you're constantly seated with the same opponents, that are much harder to see at Rush because everyone is moving around.
That might sound like a disadvantage. But I think you can actually turn that into a huge advantage. You can take good notes at Rush if you put in a little extra effort. You can keep the hand replayer open during a session and review hands that you weren't present for. If a big hand is going down and you're going to fold, you can sit out and watch what happens. You can even go through your HEM/PT3 database and look for reads on the biggest regs between sessions.
If you take notes at Rush, and virtually nobody else is doing it, then you have a massive reciprocal advantage. This is something that I admittedly need to work on.
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