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Brains Before Nuts.

This is about as far from a poker name as you'll ever read but it is a real game played in some card rooms and casino's all over the world, but more often you'll find it online. Pineapple is played with blinds and almost never with antes. You receive three cards face down in this game and there is a bet session, then a 'FLOP' comes face up on the table like the game above and there is another bet session. Now after you see the flop in this game you MUST discard one of your three cards. After you have discarded and have two cards the TURN, and RIVER cards come each with a bet session exactly as in Texas Hold'em Poker. If fact this game is just a spin off from Texas Hol'dem and after the Flop bet session when every player has 2 cards left, the mechanics of the game are identical to Texas Holdem. But don't think that there is no difference at all. The diffference is in the hands made. The average hand in this game is much higher than Texas Hold'em since everyone started with a 3rd card and saw the flop with all three. It becomes slightly easier to get the premium hands of Texas Hold'em, like AA, KK, AK etc., if you start with 3 cards.

Below is a typical before and after result from a Pineapple High player's hand.

This player was in with a suited Ace King of spades and a four. Then on the flop she obviously threw away the four since the king is much higher and plus there was a spade on the flop so there was a small possibility of getting two more spades in a row for a flush. So the four of hearts was out of the question for sure and keeping the suited king was correct. The turn card brought no spade, or ace, or king so her hand just slightly change from (AAKQ5) to (AAKQ8). Then after the river her remained exactly the same: One Pair of aces (AAKQ8). Sometimes the card you threw away could have improved your hand but you have no way of knowing the turn or river card so you just have to make the best logically decision you can on the flop. This precisely why the example I used had that FOUR on the river so you can see that the player could have had two pair, aces and fours with the queen on the flop but it doesn't make any sense to throw down a king over a four in hopes to get a four. Now if the four had been in place of the five on the flop then the player would have thrown down the king immediately and correctly. There are no big tournaments or real high stakes versions of this game, it's mainly just for fun and far less serious than Texas Hold'em.