Pineapple 13 Card Poker
OFC/P Progressive is a variant of Pineapple Open Face Chinese. In OFC/P Progressive, larger bonuses are awarded for stronger hands in the top row.
Your hand consists of 13 cards. It's your job to break these 13 cards into three hands: top, middle and bottom. The bottom hand must be a five-card poker hand and must be the best hand of all three hands you select. The middle hand must be a five-card poker hand and must be worse than the bottom hand but stronger than the top hand. As in a regular Pineapple poker game each player gets three cards at the beginning of the hand. In Crazy Pineapple, though, you keep your first card for the pre-flop betting round and the flop betting round. Only before the turn is dealt do you have to get rid of one card. All other rules and betting stipulations are the same as Pineapple.
OFC/P Progressive Poker Gameplay
Progressive Pineapple OFC can be played by 2 or 3 players. During the course of the hand, players will arrange their hole cards on the layout in rows to make 3 poker hands, arranged in order of ascending rank. These hands are called the top, middle, and bottom:
- Top hand: A 3-card poker hand, which may only rank as a high card, a pair, or three of a kind. Straights and flushes do not count. It must rank lowest of the 3 hands.
- Middle hand: A standard 5-card poker hand. It must rank higher than the top hand.
- Bottom hand: A standard 5-card poker hand. It must rank the highest of the 3 hands.
An OFC/P Progressive hand that breaks these rules (by having a top hand stronger than the middle hand, or a middle hand stronger than the bottom hand) is a fouled hand and automatically loses.
At the start of a hand, each player is dealt 5 face-down hole cards. Clockwise from the dealer, players in turn set and confirm the positions of these 5 cards on the layout, face-up. Once confirmed, the cards become visible to all players and cannot be changed or moved.
For the rest of the hand, each player is dealt 3 face-down cards at once in turn, and must place 2 of the cards into available positions on the layout while discarding the third.Once positioning is confirmed, the cards become visible to all players and cannot be changed or moved to a different row.
The remaining cards are dealt in this manner, three at a time, until all players have completed their layouts of 13 cards. Hands are then compared and scored.
Scoring
At showdown, players hands are compared and points are exchanged based on hand strength. Two players’ individual hands are first compared to each other for scoring, row to row (top against top, middle against middle, and bottom against bottom), with the better hand winning each comparison.
- 1 point is awarded to the winner of each of the three hands.
- 3 bonus points are awarded if a player wins all three hands.
Additional bonus points called royalties are then awarded for certain strong hands:
Bottom Royalties:
- Royal Flush: 25 points
- Straight Flush: 15 points
- Four of a Kind: 10 points
- Full House: 6 points
- Flush: 4 points
- Straight: 2 points
Middle Royalties:
- Royal Flush: 50 points
- Straight Flush: 30 points
- Four of a Kind: 20 points
- Full House: 12 points
- Flush: 8 points
- Straight: 4 points
- Three of a Kind: 2 points
Top Royalties:
- AAA: 22 points
- KKK: 21 points
- QQQ: 20 points
- JJJ: 19 points
- TTT: 18 points
- 999: 17 points
- 888: 16 points
- 777: 15 points
- 666: 14 points
- 555: 13 points
- 444: 12 points
- 333: 11 points
- 222: 10 points
- AA: 9 points
- KK: 8 points
- QQ: 7 points
- JJ: 6 points
- TT: 5 points
- 99: 4 points
- 88: 3 points
- 77: 2 points
- 66: 1 point
The awarded points and royalties for both players are then recorded. If more than 2 players are playing, each remaining exchange is scored until all players have exchanged points with all other players in the hand.
After a round of hands completes, players settle the final total of points won or lost, by exchanging chips with the other players in turn.
Players are not allowed to sit out or leave the table during a round of hands, and must wait until the round is complete.
Fantasyland
The Fantasyland bonus requirement in OFC/P Progressive is QQ+ (a pair of Queens or better as top). A player enters Fantasyland by making a hand which both meets this requirement and does not foul.
The button does not advance during a Fantasyland bonus hand. In the bonus hand, the player in Fantasyland receives 14 or more cards face-down at the start of the hand, and sets a complete 13-card hand face-down on the first turn, discarding the extra cards.
The amount of cards the player receives is based on the strength of his top hand:
- A pair of Queens on top awards a normal 14-card Fantasyland.
- A pair of Kings on top awards a 15-card Fantasyland.
- A pair of Aces on top awards a 16-card Fantasyland.
- Three of a Kind on top awards a 17-card Fantasyland.
All players not in Fantasyland receive 5 starting cards as normal, and must draw and set their hands face-up in turn. The hand is then scored normally. A player in Fantasyland may repeat Fantasyland and play another bonus hand by making one of the following strong hands while in Fantasyland:
- Three of a Kind or better (top)
- Full House or better (middle)
- Four of a Kind or better (bottom)
Pineapple 13 Card Poker Games
Players who repeat Fantasyland will only receive the normal Fantasyland of 14 cards on each repeat.
Pineapple 13 Card Poker Card Game
OFC/P Progressive is played for table stakes. The amount a player has at the table determines the maximum win or loss possible in one round of bitcoin poker.