Instead of receiving and placing a single card during each turn after the initial 5-card deal, players receive three cards and place two, discarding one face down. This adds a further, crucial tweak to the game a change which makes OFC Pineapple Poker a faster, more action-packed and entertaining game. This twist on Chinese Poker sees each player initially receive and place only 5 cards, before play continues with each player receiving and placing a single card at a time.

It’s possible for one player to win, say, with their front hand, but a different player to win with their middle or back. You compare your front hand against your opponents’ front hands, your middle hand needs to beat your opponents’ middle hands, and the same applies to your back hands. Points are scored for each hand you make which beats your opponents’ hands, as well as extra points – known as ‘royalties’ – for making certain poker hands (detailed in the OFC Scoring Guide below). As the front is only ever made up of three cards, three-of-a-kind is the best hand possible at the front. The key is that the back must be stronger than the middle, which must be stronger than the front. OFC Poker is based on the game of Chinese Poker, where up to four players receive 13 cards each and arrange them into three different poker hands:

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