{"id":1963,"date":"2019-08-05T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.coinpoker.com\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2019-08-05T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T07:43:53","slug":"nomercy-ofc-crash-course-switching-to-open-face-chinese-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-ofc-crash-course-switching-to-open-face-chinese-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"NoMercy OFC Crash Course: Switching to Open Face Chinese Poker"},"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.  Stay tune and enjoy the Fantasy Ride!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we saw last\nweek, Chinese poker is still a relatively young game in evolution. It all\nstarted out as a game where we would receive 13 cards face down and had to\nposition them all at once. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a while of\nplaying Chinese poker in its original closed format, the buzz slowly\ndisappeared, until the arrival of its new formula \u201cOpen Face Chinese Poker\u201d,\nwhich modernised the game and assured it a real future. Indeed, something was\nmissing in the closed version, since you could never \u201cbust out\u201d unless you\nplace your cards in a wrong order by mistake, just like you would misclick on\nyour computer mouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new \u201copen\u201d\nversion, each player would receive 5 cards to start the hand, and then would be\ndealt one card at the time until the board was complete. In these\nconditions, when the game was four handed, you actually had access to every\nsingle card of the deck, which means that calculating your outs became vital\nagain, just like in NLH or PLO.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new format\nis what brought me back to the Aviation Club de France<\/strong> poker tables in\nParis a few years back, playing all night long, placing cards, counting outs,\nbusting, winning big bonuses, and watching my stack making swings in every\ndirection! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember one\nparticular evening, it was a weeknight, around 2 or 3 in the morning, and our\nOFC game was going to break soon, as players were leaving the club.  We were still three players in action, but\nthe third one left the game, leaving me alone with poker legend and good friend\nDavid Benyamine<\/strong>, whom I adore, obviously. But let\u2019s not forget that he\nis an amazing player who dominates every game format that he plays!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore,\nplaying four handed with David is fine, as he takes a lot of risks and often\nbusts out, but playing heads up against him\u2026 no way.  So, I told to him that I would quit the game\ntoo, but he was as addicted as me, and he insisted that I stay. To convince\nme, he said \u201cWe will play for zero\u201d. <\/strong> Wow! That means playing just for the fun of\nit!  It\u2019s a very rare thing to do for\nhigh stakes players such as Benyamine, but I promise you, this game is THAT\nfascinating\u2026  David gave me tons of\nadvices during our \u201cfree\u201d game, while repeating over and over \u201cnot to tell the\nothers\u201d\u2026  LOL!  Thanks David, I had a blast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving from close to open format was just another step for this game… Stay tune next week to see how the game continued to evolve over the years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

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