Jesus Lederer
Rock Star
Silver Level
I frequently play razz at FTP, but until today i only had played at ring games.
Today at 12:00am i recieved the notice that my most hated football team had won the Sudamerican Cup (it´s like the UEFA Cup). I saw the definition by penaltys, and i felt terrible.
To try to clear my mind i opened FTP to play some game. I sorted the tournaments by the status, and i saw that a $5 buy in tournament was going to begin at 12:30am. I saw what game was and it
said razz. I thought "Ok, i have played some razz cash games and showed a little profit, now is time to see how well can i do it here". So i entered to the tourney. The game was very fun, and the best thing was that the level of play wasn´t too bad as it would be in a $5 NLHE tournament. In a $5 limit game you may think that there would be just calling stations trying to chase any low card down to the 7th street, but i was very glad to find it wasn´t like that. Actually i saw very few showdowns.
Early in the game i stayed in the middle of the positions, almost all time with the average stack. Then i started winning some key hands and in the first break i was 4th. From that moment i stayed almost always in the top 10, and i reached the final table as 4th. The game was intense, and for a moment i thought i would end as 4th, because when we reached the final 4 i was short stacked. Using position and continuation bets against big stacks i managed to steal some good pots, because the blinds were high. When we reached the final 3, quickly i started a very aggressive game which helped me to move up to 1st position. With the big stack i started a more aggressive game and it worked very well. I busted the 3rd and then the heads up lasted 1 hand (i had 120900 chips against 15600, with blinds 2000/4000 and 300 ante).
It was a great game, had a lot of fun playing razz.
p.s: for the record i never had a wheel...
Today at 12:00am i recieved the notice that my most hated football team had won the Sudamerican Cup (it´s like the UEFA Cup). I saw the definition by penaltys, and i felt terrible.
To try to clear my mind i opened FTP to play some game. I sorted the tournaments by the status, and i saw that a $5 buy in tournament was going to begin at 12:30am. I saw what game was and it
said razz. I thought "Ok, i have played some razz cash games and showed a little profit, now is time to see how well can i do it here". So i entered to the tourney. The game was very fun, and the best thing was that the level of play wasn´t too bad as it would be in a $5 NLHE tournament. In a $5 limit game you may think that there would be just calling stations trying to chase any low card down to the 7th street, but i was very glad to find it wasn´t like that. Actually i saw very few showdowns.
Early in the game i stayed in the middle of the positions, almost all time with the average stack. Then i started winning some key hands and in the first break i was 4th. From that moment i stayed almost always in the top 10, and i reached the final table as 4th. The game was intense, and for a moment i thought i would end as 4th, because when we reached the final 4 i was short stacked. Using position and continuation bets against big stacks i managed to steal some good pots, because the blinds were high. When we reached the final 3, quickly i started a very aggressive game which helped me to move up to 1st position. With the big stack i started a more aggressive game and it worked very well. I busted the 3rd and then the heads up lasted 1 hand (i had 120900 chips against 15600, with blinds 2000/4000 and 300 ante).
It was a great game, had a lot of fun playing razz.
p.s: for the record i never had a wheel...
