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PINEAPPLE

There have been several variants of Pineapple, but what they’ve all had in common is that poker players have received three pocket cards and at some point had to discard one. After the discard, which would have been before or after the flop, the rules have been identical to Texas Holdem poker. Since people have got to pick their best two pocket cards, winning hands would have tended to be stronger. This has been another game like Ohmaha that should have been played tight.

Holdem poker variants have been especially popular in public cardrooms that have had jackpots. A jackpot would have been created by putting a portion of the rake aside into a single pot that would have grown over the course of time until someone would have won it (see Chapter 2).

The winner would have been someone with an unlikely bad beat, like Aces-full losing to four of a kind. Each cardroom has had its own definition of what has qualified to win the jackpot. Since bad beats of this nature have been rare, jackpots could have grown to thousands of dollars before someone would win. However, a monster hand losing to a bigger monster hand would be more likely in Holdem variants than in traditional Holdem poker.

When Sid had played I the now defunct Prince George’s County Mary-land cardrooms, there had been bonus money given each day for the first person with. Aces-full, etc., high hand for the afternoon, plus $500 for any royal, and $100 for any straight flush. Under these conditions no one had wanted to play anything but. Omaha for high, because the higher ranked hands generated by Omaha had meant the bonus money had been paid out faster.