Progressive Pineapple OFC Poker

Progressive Pinapple OFC Poker is a variant of Pineapple Open Face Chinese. In OFC/P Progressive, larger bonuses are awarded for stronger hands in the top row.

Progressive Pinapple OFC 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 3 poker hands hands are called the top, middle, and bottom:

A Progressive Pinapple OFC Poker 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.

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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.

Meaning: If you win one of those three hands, one point. For each of the hands won. Unless you win all three hands, then it is three points. So a six point total.

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Royalties

Additional bonus points called royalties are then awarded for certain strong hands:

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.

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Fantasyland

The Fantasyland bonus requirement in Progressive Pinapple OFC Poker 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:

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:

Players who repeat Fantasyland will only receive the normal Fantasyland of 14 cards on each repeat.

Progressive Pinapple OFC 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.

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