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I've seen it spread when I was at the bike.

I don't think it's fair to call it a novelty game. It's between omaha and holdem, though closer to holdem, as far as strategy goes. There's nothing particularly crazy about it, despite the name.

I guess badoogi and triple draw would also be considered novelty games, if most of the players were 3-6 instead of 300-600.

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what is badoogi?

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i saw this on gamblersbookclub.com

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PINEAPPLE HOLD'EM
by Smith, Brian
Order 082701...$6.95

As Texas hold'em players know, each player receives two cards. In "Pineapple-style," a third card is dealt to each, and after the first round of betting, one card must be discarded. Includes rules, strategy, money management, freeze-outs and tournaments. 61 pages, paperbound.1979.
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(they also have a book about CP/8 btw)

does anyone know if this book is any good? i have never heard of the author.

Re: crazy pineapple basics
 

I don't think it's fair to call it a novelty game. I guess badoogi and triple draw would also be considered novelty games, if most of the players were 3-6 instead of 300-600.

I think it's hard to consider a game that is played in the WSOP and in the 4000/8000 bellagio games to be "novelty." Triple draw and no limit 2-7 are played in these. Pineapple isn't. Maybe I'm just blabbering, but I would say pineapple is a novelty game.

FWIW, a dealer once swore to me that the holdem phase will eventually die down and pineapple will take over because it has more action, because the fish can and will play anything.

EDIT: Appologies for hijacking. We now resume normal pineapple discussion =)

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During Foxwoods trips, jar and I have asked a couple times to put up a List of Interest for $2/4 Crazy Pineapple.

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I'd walk out of a 10/20 Hold'em game to play that, it sounds like fun!

Pinapple is played in the NYPC rotation game. I haven't played it live yet, but I really enjoyed it when I've played it on Paradise. I haven't played CP yet, I am still struggling with split games, I need to get better at them.

But I don't think it will ever take off, it will always be a fringe game. I can't imagine it taking equivelent status to other fringe games such as razz or the newly popular tripple draw.

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i don't even know if this game is even spread in casinos.

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Just an FYI, if anyone is ever in the Seattle area we play CP/8 in a dealer's choice game at Kenmore Lanes.

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Cool. Two nights ago I was in the car with my roommates driving into a Seattle to go to a bar, and we passed Kenmore Lanes on the way there. I had no idea I lived so close to it. What other games are played in the dealer's choice game? What are the stakes? Does "dealer's choice" mean it is self-dealt? Is so is there still a rake? I'm not familiar with how a dealer's choice game works in a cardroom.

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sure, UltimateBet offers it as well.


good luck!


--lob

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yay! are the games soft? i know UB has a reputation of having tough games, but so does paradise (although perhaps to a lesser extent than UB) and still the CP games are very soft, with a VPIP% much much higher than the texas games at the same limits. (i have actually never played texas at paradise, but the games seem tougher than at most other siter.)

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I've seen it spread when I was at the bike.

I don't think it's fair to call it a novelty game. It's between omaha and holdem, though closer to holdem, as far as strategy goes. There's nothing particularly crazy about it, despite the name.

I guess badoogi and triple draw would also be considered novelty games, if most of the players were 3-6 instead of 300-600.

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Good post. This is a fun game but I haven't seen it much in Los Angeles except at the Bike (where I work). The Jerrod primer (linked elsewhere in this thread) is good - he used to destroy the Bike's games.

~ Rick