If there’s any one in particular of the hundreds of versions of poker games and table gambling games, of all of them perhaps the most frustrating and hard to get the hang of, is razz. Most poker players will tell you that it’s the hag of all poker online games, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can quickly lose it all to someone with an experiential edge.

Razz is less a game of big holdings where the dominating or preferred hands tend to stay that way and win over the straight draws and the flush draws. Razz is more a game based on drawing, and you can see an incredible starting hand, top ten starting hands in the game of razz, get completely donkeyed out by fifth street.

Poker is a game where nothing can be as it seems, and so that’s why for the most part games like hold em and Horse and even Omaha tend to be more trendy and thus the subject of all the regularly watched poker TV shows, High Stakes Poker on GSN, World Poker Tour on GSN, etc. But again like most poker pros will tell you, to be a true poker player you have to be able to play it all, and so turning to the most challenging of them all is a great way to loosen up your mind.