Razz it up!

I didn’t get out to play at all the past two weeks, main reason is that Richard is working full time swing shift at Imperial Palace now – as supervisor, that means no early nights for him, and since we have only one vehicle, it means no live poker in the week for me.

So, I’ve put my free time to good use, and my WOW pally is leveling fast now, if only I can find a stupid dark rune now to finish the quest for my lvl 60 epic mount!! It’s no fun riding around at lvl 63 with on my regular, slow (but very pretty!) warhorse, when everyone else is speeding past me.

Wednesday nights – Richard’s first free night – we usually go for dinner at our new favorite pizza place – Grimaldi’s, and for the rest of the evening we play Dragpitt and Drangelina, a powerful druid- and-priest-duo which kicks ass in instances!

Poker-wise I have discovered the joys of Razz on Fulltilt. So many poker players do not like Razz at all, and I think I’ve discovered why. There’s no place for poker-ego in Razz. You can start out with a great hand like A-2-3, so you complete/raise, but there’s no way you can convince your opponents the K-Q-J up cards are not really there, and there’s no bluffing, if your hand doesn’t improve, it doesn’t MATTER how low your starting hand was. I see so many ego’s getting crushed, and it usually ends with “this is a stupid game; I’m going back to Hold’em”. It's really hard for some people to lay down a good starting hand that went bad.

Razz definitely requires a different set of skills than other poker games, and though I’m still a rookie, I really enjoy it. I try to play the nightly freeroll on FT regularly, so far I ended in the 300’s out of 2400 a couple of times, once I got 61st, and my best was last night 35th out of 2400. As in any free tournament, there is some crazy stuff going on, but it’s a good place to practice patience and it pays off to make the right decisions and not get caught up in the craziness.

In little more than a week, it’s time for the Caesar’s Classic where I will be playing in the Ladies Only tournament on Sunday, Oct 21. That’s the seat I won a couple of weeks ago, really looking forward to it. Hope I can still remember how to play! Hopefully the little break will do me good.
Binions also has some ‘Classic’ tournaments in the same time frame as Caesar’s; I wanted to go play their Razz tourney, unfortunately on the same day as the Ladies tourney at Caesar’s. Don’t want to jinx myself and say I’ll go play the Razz tourney (at 5pm) if I bust out the Ladies tourney early, hah! But I might.