Full Tilt recently announced the upcoming launch of their popular Rush Poker game on mobile devices. This announcement was made via an email sent to their Black Card members in which they are asked to assist in the beta testing of the mobile version of the game. The Rush Poker mobile application is available for mobile devices running Android 2.2 and Full Tilt members that possess such devices are asked to participate in the preliminary testing phase of this software.

The mobile phones that support this software are:
Acer Liquid Stream S110
HTC Desire
HTC Droid Incredible
HTC Evo 4G
HTC Google Nexus One
HTC Desire HD
Motorola Droid 2
Motorola Droid Pro / Droid 2 World Edition
Motorola Droid X
T-Mobile G2

The online version of Rush Poker was launched back in January and since then it has had a tremendous success. Rush Poker represents regular cash games played at a higher speed, with players randomly moving from one table to another when they click fold.

The mobile version was designed on the Adobe Flash Platform. According to some, the success of the mobile Rush Poker depends to a great extent on the signal strength of the phone.

“I think going to Rush first is a ballsy move – me thinks you’ll need a strong signal to make this work. Even if it sucks in the short-term, bandwidth will improve and phones will improve to the point where mobile will not perform differently from the PC-based Full Tilt Poker,” said one player knowledgeable about mobile phones.

One of the testers of Rush Poker Mobile was Leggo Poker instructor Brian Wilber. Some of the negative points he mentions about the application’s performance are that it is “a little clumsy” and that he couldn’t figure out the bet size because of the lag. “Sometimes you have to click the buttons a couple of times to get them to work, but I assume that is just the lag,” he adds.

Despite the limitations, there are elements that make the application easy to handle. Wilber mentions some of them:
“ The ‘Fold’ and ‘Call’ buttons do what they say and the ‘Raise’ to button brings up another prompt with a slider and ‘+’ and ‘-’ buttons where you can adjust the bet size and then click ‘Bet. [...] It is easy to see everything you would want to know like players’ names, stack sizes, your cards, and the community cards.”

Full Tilt wants to render Rush Poker Mobile available to anyone with a compatible phone. The Americans will be able to take advantage of this innovation while the French may not, according to a Full Tilt source.