Re: What to people have against Razz?
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Most of what's interesting about poker is reading hands. That's the allure and much of the skill. There's probably the least hand reading in razz of any major variant.
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You have no idea how ignorant that statement is. Razz is probably one of the easiest games for hand reading, why do you think Sklansky used more razz examples than anything else in Theory of Poker?
OP- Razz took a nose dive in 2003 after the WSOP broadcast because it was depicted as a game of bad beats that was excruciating. Prior to that Razz was still a popular game in mixes, and could still be found in the higher limits. In the past two years Razz is having a renaissance, good players are flocking to it but they have forgotten the lessons taught by the old razz and lowball masters - and they generally play like fishes (tough thinking fishes, but fishes none the less). In 2006 everyone thought the razz field at the WSOP would be tiny since the game was dying, in reality it was one of the celebrity player packed events and that has helped the slow road to revival for the game.
also - this thread belongs in the stud forum, which is 1/4 razz posts lately.
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