Full Tilt has launched a mobile client for its exclusive poker game Rush. Available for Android phones running Android 2.2 (Froy) or more, the application runs in Flash Poker Rush so it is not likely to ever be published in the iPhone, but brings real money poker Android users.

Rush is perfect for playing poker on a mobile phone. The game plays like a regular cash poker game, with one major difference. When a player is no longer a hand, they immediately moved to another table and a new hand. That means no waiting, no waiting for a playable hand, just sit and do things in action. There is even a “quick button once so that you do not have to wait your turn to act – if you are treated cloths just click and be” rushed “to a new place and a new hand.
The Android version of the game is almost exactly the same as the regular version. You get to play the same pool of tables as players on the PC or Mac, at a full range of stakes from .02/.05 fixed limit to / no limit, in both Texas Hold’em and Omaha. The interface is almost exactly the same, except for the layout of the buttons and there are no checkboxes for pre-actions. Due to the small screen size the raise bar only appears after clicking the raise button, but you get used to that really quickly. Finally there is no option to write notes on players, but since that would be slow and cumbersome to use on a mobile handset it’s a feature which most players probably wouldn’t use anyway.

Since Rush Poker Mobile runs on Flash, only Android 2.2 handsets are currently supported. That includes HTC’s Desire, Evo and Sapphire, the Motorola Droid and Milestone, and the Samsung Galaxy S among others. Several tablets including the Advent Vega, Samsung Galaxy Tab and all of the Archos range also run the software.
Other posters were lamenting at authentication issues, while TwoPlusTwo faithful also questioned the overall security of playing online poker on a cell phone: “TBH playing on a phone is pretty bad idea. There is to much equipment out that can grab information off cell phones.” One poster, however, retorted, “and there isn’t equipment out that can grab information off of desktop PCs?”

Rush Poker was introduced in January as a high-octane variation on the age-old classic. As soon as a player’s action in a hand is finished, they are whisked away to a new table with a new set of opponents where a new hand is dealt. There is very little downtime in the Rush Poker cash games and tournaments that are available.