Full Tilt Poker initially opened as an online poker card room with the involvement of poker professionals Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman and Chris Ferguson. Full Tilt Poker was launched by parent company TiltWare, LLC in.

Full Tilt recently launched its very first mobile app since the site was taken over by the Rational Group from the U.S. DoJ in the middle of last year.

The app is available only on Apple iOS at this time for Rush Poker, Full Tilt’s innovative fast-fold offering that revolutionized online poker when first introduced in 2010. Currently, tournament play on the mobile app is not available. But players on the go are able to access ring games at stake levels of $0.02/0.05 to $2/4 in Fixed-Limit Hold’em, No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, and Omaha Hi/Lo.

The release of the Rush mobile app was announced by Full Tilt Poker Room Manager Shyam Marcus on a 2 + 2 posting. Marcus informed online poker forum readers that the app is HTML5-based and is only temporary. The sister site of PokerStars is currently developing native applications for iOS and Android. The launch of those versions won’t occur for several months, but will likely result in the HTML5 app being discarded.

Marcus added that the newly-released app is a beta version that will probably never evolve and was merely dusted off to give players a Rush poker option “while out and about.”

Under its initial ownership, Full Tilt was the first poker site operator to roll out a real-money mobile application with its Flash app for Android devices roughly three years ago. An iOS version followed six months later, just prior to the site being stripped of its operating license by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. According to Marcus, Full Tilt attempted to resuscitate the old Android app, but the research and development team was unable to do so.

The Full Tilt beta release comes at a time when the world’s second-ranked poker site recently introduced its very first affiliate program since relaunching six months ago. All player traffic referred to Full Tilt by third-party marketers before August will receive a revenue share of 50%. Many affiliates were displeased when the new Full Tilt chose not to honor previous affiliate agreements that included several outstanding debts. The Rational Group insisted that they were under no obligation to do so.

Full Tilt is also on the lookout for a new CEO. The executive recruitment firm of Odgers Berndtson has been hired to lead the search. Full Tilt’s CEO under the old regime, Ray Bitar, avoided jail time for his role in the company’s downfall by agreeing to pay may more than $40 million in assets. Bitar is said to be in extremely poor physical health and reportedly requires a heart transplant of a most urgent nature in order to survive.

Online poker just became more exciting at Americas Cardroom with the announcement of the new fast fold Blitz Poker that will launch on February 26.

Blitz Poker will be available on Android and iOS mobile devices at launch, with desktop computer users expected to join the fray within a few months. The game will be spread at a variety of stake levels on No Limit Hold’em cash game tables that seat a maximum of six players.

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Fast Fold Revolution

Fast fold online poker has been around since 2010 when Full Tilt rolled out the concept under the name of Rush Poker. In subsequent years, other poker rooms developed software that mimicked the format, calling the game a variety of names that include Zoom Poker, Fast Forward, Boost and Speed Poker.

Whatever name is used, the concept is basically the same. A pool of players compete within the same framework and stakes, and can immediately fold if their starting hands are deemed to be unplayable. Instead of waiting for the hand to play out, fast folders are instantaneously whisked to another table among the same pool of players – where action on the next hand begins quickly.

A rinse and repeat process continues, accelerating the action and removing some of the boredom involved in standard poker games that consists of waiting for other players to act. It’s been estimated that each player can see hands at a rate four times greater in fast fold poker than your typical run of the mill 6-handed No Limit Hold’em game of poker.

Blitz to the Top of Leaderboard

Another bonus for Blitz Poker players is that the fast fold games will also count toward points in the popular The Beast rake race. Blitz Poker may certainly have an effect on that free weekly leaderboard contest that pays mega cash prizes and has doled out millions of dollars since its inception.

Full Tilt Rush Poker Launch Schedule

There is speculation that Blitz Poker may be available in multi-table tournaments sometime down the road. However, the first order of business is to gauge the reaction of ACR players at the cash game Blitz Poker tables, and perhaps listen to player feedback with regard to any adjustments or modifications that may be needed.

Zoned for Speed

Players in most states within the US, of course, are accepted at Americas Cardroom and its partner sites on the Winning Poker Network such as Black Chip Poker and True Poker. US players may already be familiar with fast fold poker at the likes of Ignition Poker and Bovada on the PaiWangLuo Network where the game is known as Zone Poker.

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The roll out of Blitz Poker via mobile devices at Americas Cardroom will certainly be welcomed by players who enjoy a more fast-paced approach to the game. Waiting around for hands to play out has always been a sore spot to critics of the game of poker. Those same critics no longer have an argument with fast fold poker action such as Blitz Poker.