crazy pineapple basics
 

just gave the game a try last night on UB. i wasn't the worst player at the table, but, i have alot of room to improve.

any tips, or online literature worth reading?

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I am looking for information about Tahoe Split, which is similar to Crazy Pineaple (the only difference is that you don't discard). I found this article which is about Crazy Pineapple. All the advice makes sense to me.

"Crazy Pineapple For Advanced Players," by Jerrod Ankenman.

http://www.everythingsbusted.com/p0c...Pineapple.html


-- Don

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Speaking of Pineapple, will it ever be a mainstream game (like holdem, Omaha, and 7Stud)? I've seen the games on UB but haven't tried them. I really like TDL and hope it gains popularity. If pineapple does, too, I ought to spend some time learning it.

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Speaking of Pineapple, will it ever be a mainstream game (like holdem, Omaha, and 7Stud)? I've seen the games on UB but haven't tried them. I really like TDL and hope it gains popularity. If pineapple does, too, I ought to spend some time learning it.

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pineapple is a novelty game and i dont' think it will ever really pick up, at least not any time soon. i don't even know if this game is even spread in casinos.

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They used to play it in southern California. I don't know if they still do. They didn't have a game going last month when I was at Commerce, but who knows about the Bike.

I've played Crazy 8 on UB. I tend to push my high hands more than I would in O8, because people overvalue their low hands so much. I'm very tight, probably tighter than the whole table combined, lol. There is some variance, but I've made money there.

The only regular Pineapple I've played has been in tourneys (discarding before the flop, not after). I just play strong hands, and know that the hands will be higher in value than HE. Once again, I'm a very tight player.

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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. They've never put it up, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Our idea is that if the game every got going, it would stay full as long as the regular $2/4 holdem list was really long. People would see another $2/4 game and try their hand, especially if you said it was "like holdem."

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"Crazy Pineaple for Advanced Player's" is good (and quite funny, IMHO), but it's geared towards CP/8. does anyone now a strategy guide for CP hi?

btw, CP a fun game.. any sites other than paradise offer it?

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"I just play strong hands, and know that the hands will be higher in value than HE. "

Curious about this. Are you saying good hands are worth more in C8 than good hands are worth in Holdem? I know hands run closer together in 08 than in holdem, so it would seem C8 would be a step in that direction.

You probably meant something else.

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I meant winning hands will likely be higher in value playing Pineapple than HE. Sorry I wasn't more clear.

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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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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.

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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