{"id":1946,"date":"2019-07-29T06:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.coinpoker.com\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2019-07-29T06:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:48:20","slug":"nomercy-ofc-part4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-ofc-part4\/","title":{"rendered":"NoMercy OFC Crash Course: A bit of History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello everyone! Welcome to my personal blog on OFC Pineapple (Open Face Chinese Poker). Week after week, I\u2019ll go over the history of the game, some basic rules and recommendations, anecdotes from the players, and finally, some more advanced strategies.\u00a0 Stay tune and enjoy the Fantasy Ride!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese\npoker is a relatively young game, still in evolution, and very much appreciated\nby most of the poker players.  Many\nHigh Rollers are playing this game too!<\/strong> \nA few years back, while Texas Hold\u2019em was becoming mainstream and\ndetonating around the globe, a new side game actually appeared, and back then\nit was called \u201cRussian Chinese Poker\u201d, probably due to the large crowd of Russian\nplayers addicted to it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nmany poker players, including myself, discovering this game was completely\nrefreshing and exciting! Indeed, everything we loved so much about poker could\nbe found in Chinese Poker; cards, intellectual challenge, risks, rewards, and\nof course, money.  While in NLH we have\nto fold a big part of our hands and patiently wait for the next one, in Chinese\nPoker we play every single hand! Being always in action is a big part of the\nbeauty of this game.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I\nfirst discovered Chinese Poker, it was still played in a closed format; we\nwould receive 13 cards face down and we had to position them on three lines in\nthe same order as we do today in OFC Pineapple. We could be 4 players at the\ntables since we received only 13 cards each, but the \u201crisk and reward\u201d factor\nwas almost inexistent back then, aside from the fact that you often had to\nchoose between placing 2 pairs in the middle with high cards on top, or split\nyour 2 pairs to place one on each of these lines. When I look back today, I am\nnot sure why we had so much fun playing it lol! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\nwas new, so it was stimulating, and it was invigorating. On the upside, you\ncould sit down for a short time and entertain yourself by playing Chinese Poker\nwhile waiting for your seat at a cash game table. You also had almost no\ncalculation to make, as there were no royalties!<\/strong> All you had to do was count\nthe points for the lines, and eventually the scoop. There was no Fantasyland\neither, but the format itself was almost exactly the same thing, except that\nyou had 13 cards in hand instead of 14. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately,\nthe game continued to evolve! Let\u2019s see next week how the history of the game\nunfolded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet me at the OFC tables on CoinPoker to practice your skills and enjoy the action. Welcome to Fantasyland.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabelle \u201cNo Mercy\u201d Mercier<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OFC \u201cProgressive\u201d World Champion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone! Welcome to my personal blog on OFC Pineapple (Open Face Chinese Poker). Week after week, I\u2019ll go over the history of the game, some basic rules and recommendations, anecdotes from the players, and finally, some more advanced strategies.\u00a0 Stay tune and enjoy the Fantasy Ride! Chinese poker is a relatively young game, still … NoMercy OFC Crash Course: A bit of History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[62,75,92,93,95,96,97,98,106,130],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategy","tag-fantasyland","tag-isabelle-mercier","tag-nomercy","tag-ofc","tag-ofc-pineapple","tag-ofc-pineapple-strategy","tag-ofc-rules","tag-ofc-strategy","tag-open-face-chinese-poker","tag-poker-strategy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}