Pkr.com – Razz
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www.pkr.com – Razz is a game which has been around for a number of years and involves a significant amount of assimilation of incomplete information.
Each player begins with two cards face down and one face up. The set up at this point and throughout the hand is similar to Seven Card Stud in many ways, as these three cards are followed by another face up, then another, a further card, before a final one face down. This gives each player seven board cards with four exposed, and three hidden.
The aim is not actually to make poker hands from our standard rankings, but to make the best unpaired five card low hand with the wheel (A,2,3,4,5) being the nuts.
Betting rounds take place between each player receiving a card after the first three have been dealt. Most Razz events are played in ‘limit’ format meaning that the action can be a little slow in the early stages of the tournament, but the game itself is still very enjoyable to play.
Razz has been scheduled in the WSOP calendar for a long time, although you could easily debate that it isn’t a form of poker at all. The key point though that links the game to other poker games is that you have to read the potential strength of your opponents hand, and relate that to betting patterns to form an opinion of how many cards your opponent has to a low hand and how low it is, and will potentially be if it improves.
Sometimes you can bluff when your opponent is dealt an ugly card that pairs an exposed card or is as high as a King or Queen and your own card is favourable. As ever though, it is not always about what hand you have, but what hands it appears you might have.www.pkr.com
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