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you do ever find Pineapple Poker in a casino it will usually be played
High/Low, but more often you can find this game online. Pinapple Poker
is a spin off from Texas Holde'm in that there are cards dealt followed
by Flop, Turn, and River community cards. However in Pinapple Poker
you recieve 3 cards instead of 2 like Hold'em. Then on the flop, after
the betting has ended, you must decide which one of your 3 to dicard
. So after the dicard the game is played exactly like Hold'em. In Pineapple
High/Low however, after the river the pot is split between the highest
Hold'em hand and the lowest five cards from Ace through eight in any
order. If 3 or more low cards, (A-8) do not appear on the board after
the River then the entire pot will go to the highest hand just like
Hold'em, and if there is a tie between high hands the pot will be split
just like Hold'em. Pinapple High/Low is very different from Omaha High/Low
because you don't have to use 2 cards, you can use 1, 2, or none as
in holdem. So when 4 low cards hit the table you can just one from your
hand and the 4 from the table to have a low hand. This would not give
you a low hand in Omaha High/Low.
The
below example often occurs in this game when 4 low cards hit the table.
Notice the left player here had to even throw down one
of his 10's and break up his pair since the Flop gave him three 4's.
The center player flopped two pair with his Ace and 7 so he had to give
up his diamonds and his Jack, and finally the right player had 4 hearts
with his Ace-Queen so his black 6 was out of the question. As you see
in the end the three 4's by the first player was still good for the
high since now hearts or a 3rd seven came. However there were four different
low cards on the table and since you don't HAVE to use both of your
cards in any form of Pineapple, both players with the Ace had a low.
They both had A-3-4-7-8. Now whether or not the Ace-7 player wanted
to use his 7 or he still had the same low to it didn't matter. So you
should easily see that 50% went to the 3 four's (4, 4, 4, 10, 8) and
25% went to each A-3-4-7-8. Now if the two players with and Ace had
played ONLY against each other, the Ace-7 player would have received
75% instead of 25% since his two pair of sevens and fours would have
beat the Ace-Queen's 'Ace-High' and their lows were equal.
This
example will be very easy to understand. Both players used both cards
after the flop.
The left player threw away his king on the Flop since
his Ace-Deuce gave him the best low possible with the five, eight, and
three on the table. Also the Ace-2-3-5 part of his low had a small straight
possibility missing just the 4 as well. Accordingly, the right player
threw away his 10 since no hearts or a 10 were on the first 3 cards.
By the River card or last card, the left player remained with his low
of Ace-2-3-5-8 and the right player took the high with two pair of 9's
and 3's with the Queen.
Strange things happen in this game, that's why it's full name is 'Crazy'
Pineapple. Try to see if you can figure out why the below results are
correct before you read the explanation.
Well in Pineapple as in Hold'em you can use NONE of
you cards and just play the cards on the table. Usually you would have
folded if you couldn't use either card, but not always. Here these to
players bet and raised each other before the flop and continued to bet
throughout the Flop, Turn, and River card but the reason why the player
with Kings didn't win 100% is as follows: Since five different low
cards were on the table and neither player had one, they were both
forced to play the table up cards themselves as there low hands. This
has a poker term of "Playing the Board". So Kings take the high for
50% and the other 50% is split for both lows of (2, 4, 5, 7, 8).
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