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Selected Region Global. The reason for this is when aces get cracked this happens often by a straight, and a straight has to have either a ten or a five.

If you hold either of these cards the chances of someone else finding a straight are lower. Broadway pocket pairs coming with a suited card are followed by Broadway pairs with a high, non-suited card.

Other than that try to stick to hands with high cards — one is preferably an ace — with one of them the same suit as the ace.

If you want to have a go and introduce Pineapple poker to your home game, find out how to play it below. Both games start with each player dealt 5 cards which they then set into their Top, Middle or Bottom Hands.

In normal OFC each player will then be alternately dealt one more card in turn which they then add into one of their hands until they have all 13 cards set.

It is customary not to show the third card to opponents when discarding, but it should be remembered for your own information.

Some players use this hidden information to discard cards purposefully that their opponents need to make their hands. Discarded cards are not shuffled back in the deck.

You can view the complete scoring rules on our regular OFC rules page. Ivey would win the front row and back row, but lose the middle row.

See scoring for more details. Fouling also known as mis-setting is when an illegal hand is made and as a result, the hand is forfeited. The back hand must be stronger than or equal to the middle and the front, the middle must be stronger or equal to the front, otherwise, the hand is not legal and is considered fouled.

In this case the player who fouled loses six points one point per line plus three point scoop bonus per non-fouling player and each non-fouling player gains six points.

Players who fouled can lose additional units if players with legal hands achieved royalties. Opponents with legal hands gains six points plus any royalties in their hands, but not the royalties in fouled hands.

When a hand is fouled the fouling players loses all royalties in their hands as well. If more than one player foul, then the players who foul tie other players who foul and no points are gained or lost between players with fouled hands.

Unlike standard Chinese poker, players do not receive all thirteen cards at once. Therefore, fouling plays a large factor, and strategies are devised to avoid it.

Unlike standard Chinese poker where all thirteen cards are dealt at once, in open face Chinese each player is dealt five cards in the beginning and then one card at a time until thirteen card hands are made 8 deals after 5 cards are dealt.

The cards are all set face up. But before clicking the button, he can shift any of his cards. Beginning from the 2nd street and till the moment when each player lays out all 13 cards in the boxes, the players receive 3 cards face down to take 2 of them and lay out in the boxes.

The remaining card is discarded with Discard button. When the card is discarded, the rest 2 are opened. Possible cards combinations are: three of a kind, one pair, high card as long as stronger combinations are formed with no less than 4 cards;.

The rule of the boxes : The cards combination in the lower box back hand must be stronger than or equal to the cards combination in the middle box middle hand and the cards combination in the middle box must be stronger than or equal to the cards combination in the upper box front hand.

In other words, cards combinations in the boxes must be laid out in ascending order: from the weakest in the upper box to the strongest in the lower box.

Combinations can be equal. If these conditions are not satisfied, the hand is considered as a dead hand, and no units are changed. This way players can aim to get higher hands on top and receiving more Fantasy Land cards thereby enabling them collect even more points.

The lowest-possible hand to get a player into Fantasy Land, QQ gives them 14 cards, while higher combinations give more. Standard scoring is as follows:.

Units are awarded at showdown via hand comparisons. In a three-handed game the player to the left of the button would compare first and comparisons would continue clockwise.

Fouling occurs when your hands are not set in proper order. For example you play trip threes in the middle and two pair on bottom.

Fouling also forfeits any bonuses you may have received. Royalties are bonus units paid to each player for making certain hands.

Bonuses are more generous in OFC since hands tend to be weaker than standard Chinese poker. Bonuses are paid during comparison.

As an example, aces on the top in a three-handed game would net the holder nine units from each player.

Please note that bonuses are paid regardless of whether a player wins that row. Also, bonuses negate each other in OFC. For example should two players hit quads on the bottom, no bonus would be paid.

If this happens the next hand they will be dealt all 13 cards at once and can set the hand like a standard Chinese Poker hand.

The player that's in Fantasyland will not have their cards exposed until the other players have completed their hands.

A player can remain in Fantasyland if they makes trips in the top hand, a full house or better in the middle hand or quads or better in the bottom hand.

The primary difference between Pineapple and standard OFC is the number of cards given to each player after the initial deal.

Both games start with five cards dealt all at once on the initial deal but in Pineapple players are then dealt three cards for every subsequent deal.

From those three cards players must set two of those cards into their hands and then discard the last one. The main difference between this and regular OFC is that there are just 5 rounds of play instead of 9 and each player goes through more card.

Because of that Pineapple OFC is always played with a maximum of three players. Scoring, bonuses and Fantasyland rules all remain the same.