Learn About Crazy Pineapple Poker

Series Summary

Are you tired of playing Texas Holdem every time you get together with friends for poker night? Then you should try playing Crazy Pineapple, a stud game with virtually the same set up and rules as Texas Holdem, but even more fun and excitement. Players start out with three cards, but discard a card before the forth community card is dealt. The rest of the game proceeds just like Texas Holdem, where players are dealt two cards each. The dealer begins to play a hand face-up on the table, and players go around betting, each trying to make the best hand with his or her two cards and any three cards from the table. This version of poker has become extremely popular with the birth of televised tournaments and celebrity playing.

In this free video series, semi-professional player Reg Brittain teaches you how to play Crazy Pineapple and basic strategies for the game. He shares the elements of Texas Hold’em (the cards, the chips, and the positions) and what to do to maximize each. You will learn what to do in early positions, middle positions, and late positions around the table. He tells you what constitutes good hands and bad hands and gives you tips on what cards to hold on to and what cards to discard.

Video Transcript

"If you have played poker in the last five years chances are you played Texas Holdem'. As popular widespread as fun as Texas Holdem' is it may have actually become pedestrian at this point. You might be bored with Texas Holdem' maybe you have friends that play with that would be redisent to change from the Texas Holdem' cause of it's familiar area cause that is what you learned and you play it all the time. Well here is a game that gives you holdem' the holdem' layout, the holdem' type game but adds an extra element of skill and even an extra card to holdem'. What's the game? It's called crazy pineapple so what we're going to do now is we're going to look at how crazy pineapple is dealt, the rules of the game, when you get that extra card and what you are allowed to and what you have to do with it and we'll look at hey, is this game fun? So without further ado let's play some crazy pineapple."