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Crazy
Pineapple Poker Rules and Overview - Courtesy of UltimateBet.com
Crazy Pineapple is a Texas Hold'em game very similar
to regular Texas Hold'em. There are only two significant differences in Pineapple Texas Hold'em, however, these
differences do change the game dramatically.
DIFFERENCE #1: YOU START WITH THREE HOLE CARDSIn regular Texas Hold'em, you start with two hole cards. In Pineapple, you
start with three, creating many more possible good starting hands, and many more hands that can work with the flop.
DIFFERENCE #2: IN PINEAPPLE, YOU THROW A HOLE CARD AWAY!Just as in regular Texas Hold'em, there is a betting round after you receive
your hole cards, and another betting round after you see the flop. However, in Pineapple a very important change happens here.
AFTER betting on the flop is completed, you must discard one of your hole cards.
For example, if you start with a hand of (8h-8s-Jh) and then see a flop of 10h-9h-8d, you have
a pretty big decision to make. If you want to keep your open-ended straight flush draw, you're going to have to discard
one of your trip eights (a pleasant dilemma, but a dilemma nonetheless). If you want to keep the trips, you need to throw
away the key card in the straight flush draw.
Pineapple really is an odd hybrid of Texas Hold'em and Omaha.
The average winning hands are stronger in Pineapple than they are in Texas Hold'em, because you get to look at more combinations
on the flop. Occasionally you will make a stronger hand in Pineapple than you would have in Omaha, even though you get four
hole cards in Omaha, because Pineapple does not share the Omaha "you must use two and exactly two of your hole cards
in your final hand" rule.
You'll find Pineapple a fun game to play, because of the extra strong flops
and extra key decision about what cards to keep after the flop. Crazy Pineapple 8/b
Poker RulesCrazy Pineapple 8/b plays like regular Crazy Pineapple
until the end of the hand, when the pot may be split between the high hand and the low hand, if any. WHAT DOES '8/b' MEAN?8/B refers to the low hand,
and means that, if a low hand exists, it must consist of cards valued at 8 or lower. If a low hand doesn't exist, the
high hand wins the entire pot. There is ALWAYS a qualifying high hand.
Qualifying low hands consist of five cards
with different numerical values from Ace to 8. If multiple players meet this standard, the player with the lowest high card
will win the low hand and split the pot with the high hand (e.g. Ah, 2d, 5c, 6c 7d BEATS Ac, 2c, 6d, 7h, 8d). The best low
hand is A, 2, 3, 4, 5 - straights and flushes do not count against a low hand, but a pair will disqualify it. An easy way
to think of a low hand score is to look at the two highest cards in that hand. For example, an A, 2, 3, 4, 6 scores a 64,
and would therefore beat an A, 2, 3, 5, 6 because it's score would be 65.
The high and low hands consist of
five cards from the total of seven available at the showdown (your two pocket cards plus the five community cards), but you
don't have to use the same 7 cards for both high & low hands. If your pocket cards are Ad, 7d, and the board is 2d,
3c, 4c, 5d, 6d - you have a low hand of A-5, and a high hand of Ace high flush. One final point - players do not need to decide
if they are playing for a high hand or a low hand, as all hands in the showdown will be evaluated for both and ranked automatically
by our software. BUT I WANT IT ALL!!!The value of potentially sharing the pot between a high hand and a low hand
is that there is more action in the game. Some will play for the high, and some for the low. But sometimes you can play for
both! As mentioned above, straights and flushes do not count against a low hand. So if you have Ac, 2c, 3c, 4c, 5c, you will
share in the low hand pot (it may split between you and other A-5 straights), and your straight flush would certainly put
you in good position for the high hand also.
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