{"id":2056,"date":"2019-10-14T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.coinpoker.com\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:00:20","slug":"nomercy-ofc-crash-course-setting-up-your-initial-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-ofc-crash-course-setting-up-your-initial-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"NoMercy OFC Crash Course: Setting Up Your Initial Cards"},"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

Now\nthat we went over the history of this fantastic game, let\u2019s focus for a while\non general advices and basic strategies. We already went over a list of\nelements that will help you maximise your profits in OFC: remember all the\nroyalties, know your opponents, take your time before you act, and be observant\nof your live cards. Once you\u2019ve integrated these general notions, you\u2019ll\nalready be a better player than most of the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which\nbrings me to our next valuable concept; setting up your initial cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed,\nand since you will not be able to move your cards around once they are set,\nyour initial positioning constitute the absolute foundation of your hand<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nreminds me of classic chess openings! In OFC, you will sometimes find that there\nare a few different possibilities for your openings, and sometimes the way to\nplace your first 5 cards will be evident. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever\nI receive an Ace in classic Pineapple, I\u2019m very much inclined to put this card\nin the middle, as it is my joker card to easily make a pair of Aces, completed\nby a pair of Queens on top.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\nbeing said, if this Ace is in a particular suit, let\u2019s say the Ace of Diamond, and\nthat I received it along with 4 other diamond cards, there is a very good\nchance that I will place my flush in the back, especially if I am last to act\nand see that my diamonds are pretty much live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However,\nif I receive a pair of Kings to start the hand, it is unlikely that I will\nplace it on top right away. Indeed, the value of accessing a Fantasyland with Kings\nis not worth the risk of fooling in Classic Pineapple, as opposed to\nProgressive Pineapple, which we will study later on in these series of tips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nfact, many of the greatest OFC players that I had the chance to study with,\nwill all tell you the same; placing a pair of Queens on top in opening, without\nat least a live Ace or live King in the middle, is definitely not a good play. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncombinations are so numerous in OFC openings, that it is just impossible to\nwrite down some guidelines that will cover all scenarios. Therefore, we will\nspend some time over the weeks analysing the best possible openings in\ndifferent situations, which will give you a greater idea of the best ways to\nstart playing your hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet me at the\nOFC tables on CoinPoker to practice your skills and enjoy the action. Welcome\nto Fantasyland!<\/em><\/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":"

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! Now that we went over the history of … NoMercy OFC Crash Course: Setting Up Your Initial Cards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2057,"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-2056","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\/2056"}],"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=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}