So there’s no reason to play the four-straight, which would be the other play here.

In Pineapple, we are big favorites to make the flush after a three-card-flush start. Round 635 (first to play) - Beginner’s Luck There’s no standard for how to do this, so I made one up. The point is to write down games in a clean & readable manner. I also introduce a simple notation for recording OFC moves (Pineapple or otherwise). In the interest of space, I don’t delve into the logic of every play, and every alternative option, but I do explain the major points of strategy that come up in OFC Pineapple matches, many of which happen to us here. Over the next several installments, I’ll talk through another 20 rounds of Pineapple OFC against the computer. We’re up +1065 against the ABC computer over 634 rounds of play (counting Fantasyland rounds). And our top could not win either, but Fantasyland with or would have softened the blow. We played a ten on bottom for a live card, but nothing came in on the last draw.Įven if it had, we still had no chance to win the bottom or the middle. Although we paired the jack, we soon had to abandon hope for Fantasyland on top to try to at least qualify the bottom.

Things were looking up as we made Aces in the middle early, with on top, ready for Fantasyland, and with on the bottom, ready to go any of a number of ways toward a straight, a flush, trips or two pair. Our match starts, like many matches start, having fouled and lost the maximum against an opponent in Fantasyland. This is the first in a series of articles that will run every Tuesday and Thursday on PokerNewsįor more on Yakovenko, check out the recent in-depth interview he did with PokerNews. Here Yakovenko, who has $313,598 in WSOP earnings, walks you through 20 rounds of OFC (which he actually played) and offers strategy and his thought processes throughout. After several years at Google New York working on ranking algorithms, he's been developing independent software projects ever since while making both World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour final tables. Yakovenko, also known as 'Googles,' is originally from Moscow, Russia and is now a poker player and software developer that resides in Brooklyn, New York. One of those players is Nikolai Yakovenko, who helped create the ABC Open Face Chinese Poker iPhone app. Top pros like Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein and Shaun Deeb have become unofficial ambassadors for the game, while dozens of other pros can be found playing the game either late into the night or on their tablets. Open Face Chinese has become one of the most popular games in poker.

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