Playing a rush

I know it makes zero mathematical sense to believe in a "rush" but I just can't help it. It has to be the sickest feeling ever when you look down at 9Qo and just KNOW you are going to get there so you have to play it.

I had one of those sick rushes last night. I played the $40 tourney at my local card club and I really thought it was going to be a rough night. I managed to get all in preflop with the best hand 4 times and didn't win a single one of them. Its tourney poker, so you expect to lose some of your flips but I was amazed I lost all 4 including AQs vs ATo.

After I finally busted out of the tourney we started up a 4 handed cash game and thats when the magic started. I modified my game a bit knowing that I needed to play more hands 4 handed than I would at a normal 10 handed table. I was opening up for a raise any suited king or better, flat calling in position with speculative hands like suited 1 and 2 gappers, and playing almost all of my hands in the blinds. When the rush started I absolutely couldn't miss. I ran $100 up to $200 in a stretch of about 15 hands including calling down a player on a 38J7A board with 99 and winning. Next I started to see a lot of 1 and 2 gappers, 8T, 53, 89, J7 hands like that. It seemed like every time I played them I flopped a straight draw, either a gutterball or open ended and I just couldn't miss on the turn. I must have turned 5 or 6 straights during the course of about 2 hours. All my big hands were either holding up or I was pushing players off of there hands by playing aggressively. I was making sick calls on players that I just had a strange feeling didn't have anything but air. I was totally in the zone. It was a beautiful thing. I ended the night by running my $100 buy in up to $380 when the game finally started to break.

The rush is the most amazing feeling in poker, but its also a double edged sword. I am sure that if I would have kept playing longer that rush would have ended and I would have given it all back, I guess I am just lucky the game got short when it did. Anyone have any thoughts on playing a rush?