Crazy Pineapple Poker

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How to Play Crazy Pineapple Poker
The rules for Crazy Pineapple poker are very similar to the standard Texas Hold ‘em Poker game, with two significant differences that greatly affect every aspect of gameplay. We recommend that you first become familiar with how to play Texas Holdem Poker before joining in Crazy Pineapple games.

What are the differences in Crazy Pineapple poker?

The first difference between regular Texas Hold ‘Em poker games an crazy pineapple games is the number of hole cards you receive after the blinds are posted. In a “regular” game of Texas Holdem Poker, you start with two hole cards.

The second difference in Crazy Pineapple poker is that you throw out one of your hole cards. Just like a regular Texas Hold ‘Em game, there’s a round of betting after you receive your hole cards and another round of betting after you receive the flop. In Crazy Pineapple Poker, however, an important change happens after the flop is revealed: the players must discard one of their hole cards.

Here’s an example. Let’s say you start with (8h-8s-Jh) as your hole cards and the flop is 10h-9h-8d. This means you have a crucial decision to make If you want to keep your open-ended straight flush draw, you’re going to have to discard one of your triple eights. If you want to keep the three 8s, you’ll need to throw away the key card in the straight flush draw.

In many ways, Crazy Pineapple is an odd hybrid of Omaha Poker and Texas Hold ‘em poker. The average winning hands are stronger in Crazy Pineapple poker games than they are in Texas Hold’em, because players get to look at more combinations on the flop. Occasionally you will make a stronger hand in Pineapple than you would have in Omaha, even though you get four hole cards in Omaha, because Crazy Pineapple poker does not share the Omaha “you must use two and exactly two of your hole cards in your final hand” rule.

Many avid Texas Hold ‘em players find Crazy Pineapple poker a fun game to play, because of the strong flops and additional key decision about which cards to keep after the flop.

Crazy Pineapple 8/b Poker Rules
Crazy Pineapple 8/b plays like regular Crazy Pineapple until the end of the hand, when the pot may be split between the high hand and the low hand, if any.

What does “8/B” mean?

The 8/B refers to the low hand, and means that, if a low hand exists, it must consist of cards valued at 8 or lower. If a low hand doesn’t exist, the high hand wins the entire pot.

There is ALWAYS a qualifying high hand.

Qualifying low hands consist of five cards with different numerical values from Ace to 8. If multiple players meet this standard, the player with the lowest high card will win the low hand and split the pot with the high hand (e.g. Ah, 2d, 5c, 6c 7d BEATS Ac, 2c, 6d, 7h, 8d). The best low

hand is A, 2, 3, 4, 5 - straights and flushes do not count against a low hand, but a pair will disqualify it. An easy way to think of a low hand score is to look at the two highest cards in that hand. For example, an A, 2, 3, 4, 6 scores a 64, and would therefore beat an A, 2, 3, 5, 6 because it’s score would be 65.

The high and low hands consist of five cards from the total of seven available at the showdown (your two pocket cards plus the five community cards), but you don’t have to use the same 7 cards for both high & low hands. If your pocket cards are Ad, 7d, and the board is 2d, 3c, 4c, 5d, 6d - you have a low hand of A-5, and a high hand of Ace high flush. One final point - players do not need to decide if they are playing for a high hand or a low hand, as all hands in the showdown will be evaluated for both and ranked automatically by our software.

The value of potentially sharing the pot between a high hand and a low hand is that there

is more action in the game. Some will play for the high, and some for the low. But sometimes you can play for both! As mentioned above, straights and flushes do not count against a low hand. So if you have Ac, 2c, 3c, 4c, 5c, you will share in the low hand pot (it may split between you and other A-5 straights), and your straight flush would certainly put you in good position for the high hand also.

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