{"id":2100,"date":"2019-11-11T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.coinpoker.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2019-11-11T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:50:43","slug":"nomercy-ofc-crash-course-opening-with-3-cards-flush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-ofc-crash-course-opening-with-3-cards-flush\/","title":{"rendered":"NoMercy OFC Crash Course: Opening with 3 Cards Flush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>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.&nbsp; Stay tune and enjoy the Fantasy Ride!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that we went over the history of this fantastic game, let\u2019s focus for a while on general advices and basic strategies. We already went over a list of elements such as knowing your royalties, taking your time before you act and counting your live cards. In the latest blog posts, we studied a frequent situation where you must choose between scoring more points or remaining in Fantasyland. We also quickly went over a valuable concept about setting up your initial cards, and we will now go deeper into that subject with multiple examples of real-life openings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s start with this scenario when you receive these 5 cards as an opening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1111111.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2101\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I see many players with a tendency to always place their 3 cards flush in the back, which would result in the following opening in OFC Fantasyland Classic Pineapple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/222222222.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2102\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nare two major problems with that option:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First,\nif you don\u2019t succeed in making your flush in the back, you will most likely\nbust out your entire board, because you will end up with no hand at all on that\nbottom line. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second,\nyou are splitting a pair that you already have. Why would you do that? It will\nbe really difficult to catch another 7 for your middle row, since you already\nhave two 7s in your own hand. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the correct play with such an opening would be the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/333333333333333.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2103\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With\nsuch an opening, you are all set to make two pair or a full house in the back,\nwith a smaller hand in the middle, and even possibly a pair of Queens on top to\naccess Fantasyland! In any case, your chances of fooling are way lower with\nthis starting board then with the previous staring board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s look at another example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/44444444444.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2104\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is basically the same opening as the former one, but with different cards. Ask yourself how you would place these cards on your board. Would you go for the following placement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/555555555.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2105\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or would you go for this one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/66666666.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2106\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\nunderstood this concept correctly, you now know that the best play here will be\nto keep your pair on the same line and to forget about trying to make a flush\non the back. The reasons for this choice are the same as above: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Less\nrisks of fooling by not making your flush <\/li><li>Better\nchances of making a valid board by starting with a pair on the back<\/li><li>Opportunity\nto make a full house in the back for 6 points royalty<\/li><li>Improved\nodds to access Fantasyland with a middle row that will be lower than the back\nrow<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please\nremember that this is an extremely important concept in order to be a winning\nplayer in OFC! Indeed, your openings are the whole foundation of your hand, so\nif you frequently start with placements that are not optimum, this will\ntranslate into an accumulation of mistakes and money losses.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s\ncontinue on openings\u2019 theory next week with more hand analysis to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>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<p style=\"text-align:right\"><strong>Isabelle \u201cNo Mercy\u201d Mercier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">OFC \u201cProgressive\u201d World Champion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp; Stay tune and enjoy the Fantasy Ride! Now that we went over the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/nomercy-ofc-crash-course-opening-with-3-cards-flush\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  NoMercy OFC Crash Course: Opening with 3 Cards Flush<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2107,"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-2100","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\/2100"}],"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=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}