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Originally Posted by thedew77
I would love to see some Razz tables get put up. Just not sure the BOL community has many players interested in it. The Stud tables barely ran a table at a time, if that.
Curious to see what they have planned.
Razz showed up on BOL in the drop down list for cash games, maybe 3 months ago. I love playing Razz, Badugi, Stud, and Mixed Games, so I checked it out multiple times. It never showed any tables though, so I guess they were going to offer it then changed their minds. It disappeared after the most recent update. I remember that BOL had Stud cash tables when I first joined the site in December, 2017. I checked them out a few times, but as you said they never had many players, and I never played it there. As of the last update, the Stud games also disappeared from the Games list.
AFAIK, currently there isn't a US facing site with cash tables for any games except Hold Em and Omaha. Merge does still run a couple of Stud and HORSE tourneys, but got rid of their cash tables for Razz, Badugi, Stud, and HORSE long ago. None of the sites I've played on over the past nine years have ever had very many players who want to play these other games though - Full Tilt and Poker Stars having the most, but then they also had the most players of any US facing sites before Black Friday. I guess a lot of players simply aren't familiar with these games and/or don't know how to play them. Maybe with the WSOP getting more demand for them and incorporating them more, we'll see interest in more of these games trickling down to the online sites.
I scratch my Mixed Game itch these days
by playing for free chips on Poker Stars at an 8-Game 'cash' table . They also have Razz, Badugi, and Stud 'cash' tables, and SNG's for Stud, HORSE, 8-game, and Badugi. At the time I play (around 8 or 9PM EDT), there are usually only two of the lowest limit (1,000 chips) 6 player, 8-game tables running. They're mostly populated by a group of regulars, mainly US players. However the last couple of weeks, the interest in 8-game seems to be picking up a little (maybe due to WSOP?). I've seen more non-US players (who I enjoy the diversity of playing against, since their style is usually different from US players), and an increase to three and four 1,000 chip tables running, usually all with waiting lists.