Crazy Pineapple Poker
Crazy Pineapple poker is very similar to Texas Hold'em but it has some differences that spice up the game if you're bored with regular Hold'em.
There are two versions of this game, regular pineapple and crazy pineapple. The crazy pineapple variation is more common that the regular one.
Like Hold'em this game uses a three-card flop on the board, and a fourth and a fifth board cards. Each of the players is dealt three holecards right at the start, and one of them is discarded before the flop in regular Pineapple and after the flop in crazy Pineapple.
The betting is just like in Texas Hold'em and in the showdown the player can use any combination of his own two cards with the board cards. If the player still has three cards in his hand at the showdown, he has a dead hand.
The game :
The game starts with each player being dealt three face-down cards (the pocket cards). The first betting round starts and after it the flop starts when the dealer turns over three community board cards face up. A second round of betting begins and after it all the players must discard one of their pocket cards. Then the dealer turns over one more community board card, in the 'turn' and a third betting round begins. After than the final community card, called the river is dealt and the final betting rounds starts. After the last betting round all the players show their cards in the showdown.
The Showdown
At the showdown, the players can use either both the remaining pocket cards and the three board cards, or one remaining pocket card and the four board cards or all five board cards, which is also called 'playing the board'.
Betting
There are four betting rounds in this game. Each of the bets during the first two rounds is set at the lower limit and on the last two rounds is set at the higher limit. For example in a $2/$4 game, at the first two rounds of betting the betting and raises are $2 and in the last rounds it's $4.
The maximum number of bets per player during any round of betting is four.