Razz

I had to move up to where they respect my raises imo.

Yesterday I spent all day watching “Dr Razz’s”, “Razz made complex” eight video series on stoxpoker.com. It definitely opened my eyes to quite a few things and made me realize how poorly I was playing previously. Razz is a very difficult game to learn in my opinion because you can’t just pull up your equity on any given street, compare it to the pot odds, and make a decision that way. In fact that is a very poor way to learn the game and you will end up making loads of mistakes if you go about it that way. Dr Razz has compiled a series of graphs that are somewhat complicated to understand at first, but once you do they are immensely helpful in determining the correct play in any situation on any street.

If you are looking to learn razz, I suggest you start out by playing some low stakes for a couple 1000 hands and basically lose, but try to figure things out on your own at first. After you learn the trouble spots, rules, etc then I suggest you suck it up and watch the 7 hours of video he put up and do some analysis on your own afterwards. Your mind will be blown. My biggest mistake I found I was making was playing too loosely on 3rd and then folding too easily later in the hand (usually 4th or 5th) which is a pretty huge leak. I obviously have a ways to go before I consider myself anywhere close to an expert at this game, but for now, having watched all the videos I actually think I’m half decent.

That is the beauty of being able to play a lot of games and not just being a specialist in one. As you can see I was getting crushed at 10/20 razz, but there was a whale giving his money away at 100/200 razz today so I figured I was +EV in the lineup. While I may be leaking money to the other 100/200 razz regs there, I’m sure it was a profitable spot for me. At the same time, I got to play with other really good razz players and even learned a couple of things from them!

On Thursday I’ll be doing some traveling to the east coast to visit a college buddy of mine in Philadelphia. I’m super excited as I’m going to be going to Atlantic City for the first time. I’m not really sure what to expect, but people have said don’t expect Vegas, it’s gotta be better than 99% of all the other casinos I’ve been to though! I’ll be sure to report back. That’s all for now, if you find yourself getting bored at the tables this week go try some razzle dazzle! You might actually like it!