Pineapple Deluxe
Pineapple is similar to Texas Hold’em in that you are dealt hole cards to be used with community cards to make the best five card hand. The only difference is that with Texas Hold’em you get two hole cards, with pineapple you get three.
So is Pineapple just where Texas and Omaha meet? Not exactly, with Omaha you are dealt four hole cards with the requirement that two must be used in your hand. With Texas Hold’em and Pineapple, there is no such requirement.
The “deluxe” of Pineapple Deluxe is that the final community card, the river, is wild and makes the three other cards of the same value wild. The extra hole card inherent to Pineapple allows for better than average Hold’em hands. The four wild cards, one of which everyone has, makes any hand less than a full house a likely loser. If you play this abomination of poker, don’t feel confident without four (or better yet five) of a kind or a straight flush.
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