Review: Play Razz Poker to Win by Mitchell Cogert
Mitchell Cogert kindly sent me a copy of his new book titled Play Razz Poker to Win (along with a nifty t-shirt) to review.
The books itself is thin however Razz is not the most complex game and the book does cover each street in detail. Most people playing razz do not understand the basic strategy of razz and and Mitchell certainly covers this well.
The book also cover drawing hands particularly a made 9 against a drawing hand. Learning this concept is a key point that separates the Razz beginner players from the intermediate players.
The real meat of the book is covered under how card duplication adjust your odds. This one aspect of the book is well worth the price of the book. For me this is an area that while I was aware of the concept did not really pay too much attention to.
Stealing in Razz is also covered however at the lower limit tables and covers the fact that the more people in a hand the worse your odds are. It also goes over how to important position is when you decide to steal. I would have like to see how the ante size changes your stealing strategy.
Overall I felt that this book will certainly help anyone who is new to razz to become a winning player at low limits and certainly recommend it.
As a final note I've had a week to play poker after receiving Mitchell's book and get some real money results. As a bit of history I've been trying to hit $600 for he past few months and have been pretty much trading water with my bankroll holding $400. I am quite happy to say that after reading the book and tweaking my play I got to my goal of $600 within 3-4 days. Once I hit $600 I was able to move up to the 2/4 table and moved up to $750.