lol razzaments...?

Since a week or two I have an account on Full Tilt, just to learn, chat and play with the pros (they should really make that their slogan...). Really good site with good tournament structures and the chance to see real life/online pros take eachother on at the high stakes cashgames. One side effect. Tiny, fluffy one: Full Tilt caused me to get addicted to Razz.

Explaining the game of Razz is like explaining the Theory of Relativity to a German Sheperd while having an exhausting discussion about "why in Heaven's name that damn chicken crossed the road" with a 3-year old toddler.
Yes. It's that hard. No kidding.
Razz is the evil twin of 7-card stud. It's the retarded child in the poker family: difficult to play with, difficult not to laugh at it. And still I wake up at 3AM to play yet another Razz freeroll (yeah, like I'm paying money to play a game that drives me crazy).

But, kind Sir, you might ask me now: how do we play it, so I can overwhelm my friends with my knowledge of yet another poker game? Easy... *cough*:
The games starts with dealing out 3 cards to the players, two down and one open and visible for all the other players. A round of betting follows. Now three more open cards follow with a round of betting after each dealt card. The last two cards dealt are down cards and yet again have a round of betting after each. If the two biggest idiots or drunk people are still in this hand, they now have to show their 7 cards and the best combination of 5 cards wins.
"Yeah, but Taj, that's 7-card stud! lolzorz!!!11elevenish. What's the big deal?"
Simple: flushes and straights don't count, Ace is always low and the lowest hand wins, making 5-4-3-2-A the lock hand. Yes, ladies and gents, I lol'ed as well when I first read this on the Almighty Wikipedia site, 10 minutes before I entered my first ever Razz tournament...

Still, the sillyness of this poker form makes for great fun, especially when other players are actually taking this game or a $100 freeroll serious. It makes up for the sleepless nights and going bust early on (though my game is improving). Fun assured.