Razz Calculator

What the game is

Razz is a lowball stud variant. The goal is to make the best low hand, with no high-hand half of the pot.

Rules of Razz

• Razz is played with stud-style individual cards and no community board, so players do not share flop, turn, or river cards.
• The deal starts with each player receiving two face-down private cards, called down cards or hole cards, and one face-up card, called the door card.
• After the first betting round, each remaining player receives one more face-up card on fourth street, fifth street, and sixth street.
• The final card, seventh street, is dealt face down. A player can finish with seven total cards: three down cards and four up cards.
• At showdown, each player tries to make the lowest five-card hand from that player's own seven cards.
• Aces are low, and straights or flushes do not hurt you. The best possible Razz hand is A-2-3-4-5.
• Unlike eight-or-better split-pot games, normal Razz does not require the low hand to be eight or lower.
• Visible up cards and dead cards strongly affect which low cards are still live.

Example calculations

• Enter Player 1 with A♣ 2♦ down and 5♠ 7♥ up against Player 2 with 3♣ 4♦ down and K♠ 8♥ up to compare smooth low strength against a rougher board.
• Add exposed high cards and low dead cards to study live-card value.
• Use unknown down cards to model incomplete information.

Strategy examples

• Track dead low cards because they can make a rough draw much weaker.
• Use calculations to compare smooth lows against paired or blocked low cards.
• Review later streets when exposed cards reveal who is live.

Calculator preview

Preview the Razz calculator

The Razz calculator link opens the full table view with Razz already selected, so you can move from the rules on this page straight into a real hand study.

Use it to enter the same kind of cards shown in the examples, adjust known board cards or dead cards when they matter, and see how each card changes the numbers.

Because Razz is lowball, the results help you focus on low-hand strength instead of high-hand value.

Clicking through is the fastest way to preview the real Razz calculator workflow before you start building your own examples.

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