The Razz Thread....

[msaban]

Since playing the WCOOP Razz event last month I have rekindled my love affair with the game of Razz, this has coincided with the fact that I found I was very highly placed on the pokerdb rankings in the first few months of 2007, so since the 23rd Sept 08 I have been playing on a regular basis in an attempt to climb back up that ladder and rescue a pretty miserable poker year by winning a few bucks. So in that last week September I managed to climb upto 33rd in the $0-10 tournament range, 299th in the $11-50 tournament range and 534th in the $50 + tournament range. These ranks are taken from all Razz tournament results recorded by pokerdb, this site covers pokerstars, fulltilt, bodog, absolute, party and maybe a few others, although I'm only aware of Razz games on stars and tilt. Anyway, I'm looking to build on last months results and climb that ladder to get to a higher position. However this is not meant to be a brag post, I'm hoping to encourage people to discuss the game further,which I feel is possibly the least spoken about variant which in turn may lead to us sharpening our skills further. So anything Razz lets bang it in here, hands, strategies, tournaments, odds, cash games, players to avoid, players to chase, results... whatever Lets get razztastic :)

[GaF]

Re: The Razz Thread.... Nice one mike :ok I havent played that much Razz however from what I have played, it seems a very very simple game - is that fair? If it is, then the impression I have is that there are more obviously "right" and "wrong" answers than in other variants - if that is the case, then once you get beyond the micro stakes, how would you get an edge? I was also thinking about it when I posted my bots thread - if the game is that simple, then wouldn't it be completely (and pretty easily) beatable by computers? It's limit. There are no pairs/trips/full houses/straights/flushes to worry about and more known cards than in holdem - I'm struggling to see how you can get an edge over mathematical players, and moreso, against bots.... If you're making money at it (it sounds like you are :ok) - I'm obviously wrong :ok but I'm really struggling to see where you can get an edge from against (competent) opponents :unsure