The Joy of Razz!!

So I let a buddy of mine play on my on-line account. I am sure you know what I'm about to say next...I have nothing left in my FT account now. Geeze, thanks a ton. I'm not really too worried about it. He is good for it and will get it back to me some how...and I wont even charge him interest. hahaha

So it's a Friday night and I'm at home taking care of my sick 2 year old while the wife is out at a family function with my 4 year old. What a perfect night for some on-line poker, but my absence of cash wasn't helping the situation. I hadn't played on Poker Stars in quite a while so I decided to play a free roll or two. I found one and signed up...it was razz. Which honestly is just fine with me. I have been sick of NLHE lately, and would rather play something else.

When I register I notice there are 5, 782 player. Holy cow!! That just seems like a ton to me, but about 95% couldn't play razz anyway so it was cool. As it turns out it was a satellite for another free roll. The top 88 of the 5,782 players would be awarded a seat in the next round...the one that actually paid cash.

I sat there for 5 hours (while watching some TV and having to run upstairs now and again to check on my patient) and played some pretty good razz. I ended up finishing 23rd. Not too bad. I was going to just bust out on purpose once I hit the 88 qualifying spots, but right as I was about to I picked up a A4 6 (the 6 up). 4th street- 7 and 5th street- 5. So i was sitting on a made 7 on 5th street. Now I have to assume that the two other people in the hand had to have been just trying to go to bed or something. They literally just handed their chips to me. One called ever single bet on all streets with a J 10 8 and other called every street with a 10 9 7. Fine by me. I was up to 350,000 chips after that hand. I guess play like that is to be expected once the bubble bursts on a satellite tourney. It still cracks me up though.

The funny thing in all this is the tourney I qualified for...it's on Sunday right when I am supposed to be at a wedding an hour and half away from my house.