BBT3 - Game #15 & 16 Skillz & Mookie

Tuesday's skill game was Razz. It's a very enjoyable form of poker, very entertaining, thoroughly engaging, and of course Phucking Phrustrating As HELL!!! Frankly, I aint got no phucking idea how to properly play this game. But what little I do know, is that it's fairly easy to 'know where you stand', and if your beat. However, many do not understand this, or better put, not believe in oneself's read. This is basically what cost me a better finished than I had on Tuesday, which although I picked up points, the outcome could have been much better.

This hand was my downfall, my opponent obviously understands the math better than I.

Now since I'm a dodo when it comes to Razz's math, here's the #'s from a computer simulation:

4th Street

Razz Simulation
600,000 trials (Randomized)

dead cards: 762q7q

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
8245	62.17%	372,215	1,638
**69	12.73%	76,265	268
**4a	25.09%	149,748	1,638

5th Street

Razz Simulation
600,000 trials (Randomized)

dead cards: 762q7q

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
8245q	42.61%	254,357	2,605
**697	24.58%	147,441	98
**4a8	32.81%	195,519	2,663

6th Street

Razz Simulation
600,000 trials (Randomized)

dead cards: 762q7q

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
8245q6	74.73%	448,248	225
**6973	15.20%	91,093	158
**4a89	10.08%	60,419	97

I missed raising here, not that my opponent would have folded...oh well, nice river.

I busted out of the Mookie in 40ish or so place. I had to sit out a few times, once for 15 min, and just couldn't get focused at all. Given the stuff going on at home last night, I normally wouldn't have played, but given my standing for the monthly BBT3 prize, I played anyway. I saw that TJ final tabled again so I'm fairly certain I've been bumped from the top spot. Hopefully, I can regain the lead in these final events, should be an interesting ending to say the least.

2BA