At best, pineapple OFC is to pot-limit Omaha what standard OFC is to no-limit hold’em.īut for my money, pineapple OFC is a great game. It will never become the main set of rules under which OFC is played. No one knows whether the pineapple OFC variant is here to stay, and it certainly won’t be the last of the OFC variants that will become popular.
Read on, as I rush through the basics, to how pineapple strategy differs from standard OFC to some of the odds for the numbers-driven crowd. However, with all of that OFC rah-rah and experience, pineapple OFC may be something that you’ve just heard mention of, or perhaps seen your favorite poker tweeters bragging about on the Internet. If you’re not familiar with the rules and basic strategy of standard OFC (with fantasy land), you can read about them here. Perhaps you’ve even read some of my previous articles on the subject, or have heard me talk about OFC with Kristy Arnett on the Strategy with Kristy Podcast.
If you’re reading this, I assume that you’ve already played open-face Chinese poker (OFC).