Learn Mando'a

Here's a Pazaak site
http://www.pazaak.org/play

oh boy, now I can lose without needing to boot up KOTOR!

I'm great at pazaak

I still have no idea how to play this damned game.

It plays a lot like Black Jack, but your actions are hit, stand, and side deck. If you want to practice, you can play with Mission in the Enon Hawk in KOTOR without losing credits.

Vlet Hansen wrote:oh boy, now I can lose without needing to boot up KOTOR!

Same, same.

It's all about the side deck. The best side deck is two of each of the +/- cards (i.e. 2 +/- 1's, 2+/- 2's, all the way up to 2 +/- 6's). Of course you won't be able to start with these cards, so here's the value of cards.
The value of types, in order of low to high, is blue+ cards, red- cards, then combo +/- cards.
When comes to number value, you want the extremes (ones and twos and fives and sixes)
The two main strategies are staying low, so your opponent will bust, and to try and use as little of your side deck as possible (this is why minus sixes are good, as you never have to use more than one one card pe turn to stay low), because once your side deck is gone, you only have luck.