Ich frage mich, ob Typen wie Doyle Brunson und Ted Forrest, ihres Zeichens echte Spieler, die zufällig auch Poker-Spieler sind, diese Wette annehmen würden? Ich würde das Konzept auch gerne als Reality-TV-Serie umsetzen und damit ein Vermögen machen. Wir könnten es “Erschießen Sie sich für $ 1 Million” nennen und Howie Mandel als Moderator engagieren. Er könnte immer und immer wieder “Bullet oder nicht bullet” intonieren. All diejenigen, die diese Anspielung nicht verstehen sei gesagt, dass Ihr TV-Leben soviel reicher werden wird, nachdem Sie “Deal or No Deal” und seine arithmetisch beschränkten Teilnehmer das erste Mal über Ihrem Bildschirm flimmerte.

Wenn es nur einfach eine Frage des Geldes wäre, würden viel Pokerspieler einfach die Gelegenheit am Schopfe fassen, auch wenn dieser Versuch im schlimmsten Fall bedeutet, dass er sie jeden Cent kosten, den Sie besitzen. Aber sie haben das Gefühl und den Glauben, solange es diese Art von Spiel gibt, dass sie ihre Verluste kompensieren und langfristig letztendlich gewinnen können. Wenn es ein fatales erstes Mal in der ersten Runde war, dann könnte dies zumindest für einige von ihnen eine längere Bedenkzeit bedeuten.

Ich sehe genau diesem Blick in den Augen meiner Frau jedes Mal, wenn ich ihr von einer total bescheuerten Hand erzähle, die uns eine Rate für die Hypothek kostet. “Meine Gewinnwahrscheinlichkeit lag bei 85%, und die Potwahrscheinlichkeiten waren zwischen 2 und 1 zu unseren Gunsten”, sage ich ihr händeringend, als ob die meinen Verlust irgendwie schmackhafter machen würde. “Poker ist sowieso alles nur Glück”, antwortet sie in dieser Sprache der Ignoranten.

Es ist nicht alles Glück, aber wenn Sie nicht glauben, dass Poker, Online Gambling und Glücksspiel eng miteinander verbunden sind, dann gibt hier noch eine Idee für eine neue Reality-Show, die ich gern mit Ihnen diskutieren würde. Obwohl, irgendwie glaube ich nicht, dass es mein größtes Problem sein wird, bereitwillige Teilnehmer dafür zu finden…

Crazy Pineapple is a type of Pineapple game, which is a derivation of Texas Holdem. You may encounter several types of pineapple games including Pineapple, Crazy Pineapple, Lazy Pineapple and Super 3 (also know as Super Holdem, a Holdem-Pineapple hybrid). All of the games can be played as high only games, but it is more common to see them spread as high-low games (with the exception of Pineapple which is most commonly spread as a high only game).

Pineapple is a flop games. This means that it is a community card game which uses blinds and a dealer button. At the start of the hand, each player is dealt three down cards. These are the hole cards. After this initial deal, there is a round of betting. Before the flop can be delivered each player must discard one of their three cards. The dealer will remind the players of this by requesting the discards before dealing the turn, but it is the player’s responsibility to remember to discard. If a player forgets to discard, and the turn is dealt, their hand will be dead. The remainder of the hand is played exactly like Hold’em. This means that players may play zero, one or two cards from their hole cards.

Crazy Pineapple is a variant of Pineapple. Like Pineapple, each player is dealt three hole cards at the start of the hand. The difference is that instead of discarding before the flop, players discard before the turn card is delivered. The same discard rules apply, if a player forgets to discard, their hand will be declared dead. Another difference is that Crazy Pineapple is commonly spread as a high-low game, while Pineapple tends to be spread as a High only game. In Crazy Pineapple, players may play any number of hole cards and may mix and match different combinations for the high side of the pot and the low side of the pot.

The entire amount of chips a player has on the table is called their “stack.” It can consist of any number of chips. A player with a lot of chips would have a “big stack,” and a player with only a few chips would have a “short stack.”

In a no-limit game, the most important aspect of your stack is its size relative to that of the other players in the game. This is because size of your opponents’ stacks sets the bar as to how muck you can win or lose on any given hand.

In tournament play, the importance of the relationship between the size of your stack and that of your opponents is tantamount. If the cost of the blinds is high when compared to the size of your stack, you will be blinded of very quickly. In this situation, it is unwise to allow the cost of the blinds to whittle down your stack too far. You may have to take a stand with a less than premium hand, to avoid being blinded off.

Sometimes, a unit of twenty chips is also referred to as a stack. This is because a standard chip rack holds five stacks of twenty chips each (for a total of 100 chips). For this reason, a unit of twenty chips (of any denomination) is often called a stack. This is used primarily in the context of a live game. In tournament play, the term “stack” is exclusively used to describe a player’s entire chip holding.

Most flop and draw games use blinds instead of antes to seed the pot. Blinds are forced bets that are usually posted to the left of, or in some cases directly on, the dealer button before the start of the deal. Games are often formatted with two or more blinds of different amounts, and are identified by their relative sizes as “big” blinds and “small” blinds. The small blind is generally posted to the right of the big blind, between the big blind and the button. Small blinds are also occasionally posted on the dealer button if you are playing in a game with three blinds, or if the natural movement of the blinds and button have been interrupted.

Being rolled up is a Stud term (including its variations of Razz and Stud Hi-Low) and refers to a hand where all three of the first cards dealt to a player are the same value.

When a player’s hole cards are the same and also match his door card (first card dealt face up), he is rolled up (has trips). Whereas the best starting hand in Texas Hold’em is pocket aces, the best starting hand possible in 7-Stud is rolled up aces (or 3 aces). Starting with 3 of a kind is extremely strong is Stud. It is a well-hidden hand, which can only become stronger by turning into a full house or quads. Often, a player who starts out rolled up will keep his strength in check until 5th street, when the betting amounts double in Stud. However, if a player is rolled with low ranking cards (such as 222, or 444), he may elect to bet out in fear (and to secure the proper odds) of a higher made pair also making trips later on in the hand.

Even though the term “rolled-up” is used when playing Razz, it is not a valuable hand since the object is to make a hand of five low unpaired cards. An example of somebody using the phrase when playing Razz would go something like this: “I haven’t been dealt a low hand in thirty minutes. In fact, I was rolled-up this past hand!”

In a cash game, when a player runs out of chips (or is very low), he can simply take more cash from his wallet and rebuy more from the dealer.

However, the term rebuy is more commonly used in tournament play. When you purchase a seat into a tournament, you are said to make your buy-in. This original buy-in provides each player with an original stack of chips with which they start play. In a normal tournament, once a player loses his original starting chips, he is out of the tournament.

However, there are also tournaments wherein a player who loses all his chips can rebuy to replenish the chips they have lost with another stack, usually for the same amount of the original buy-in and for the same number of starting chips. These tournaments are called “rebuy tournaments” and usually allow players to rebuy only during a limited time period (referred to as the rebuy period), or for a certain number of rebuys. For example, players might be able to rebuy as often as they wish until the first break in a tournament (and then can usually do an add-on), until the end of a certain level, or they may only be allowed one rebuy for the entire event.

Rebuy tournaments allow players to take chances in accumulating large amounts of chips by gambling more often with speculative “all-in” moves early in the event. They know they can always rebuy more chips and continue playing if they lose an early confrontation. Normally, a player can only rebuy when his (original or subsequent) chip stack is below a certain point. Rebuy tournaments (depending on the original buy in amount) can be wild and crazy affairs, with players investing in 3, 4, 5 … up to 20 or more rebuys. This usually results in large prize pools relative to the number of players entered.

Straddle bets are commonly employed in poker games which use blinds. Usually they are optional bets, but some games may require a forced straddle. In most cases, the straddle will be live, which means the player who posted it will have last action before the flop. A dead straddle is similar to a blind raise, except that it does not count toward the maximum number of allowable bets and raises on the preflop betting round.

House rules govern the use of straddles. Card clubs may allow them, disallow them, or restrict how they are used. Most commonly, straddles are only allowed to be posted to the immediate left of the big blind, for exactly double the amount of the big blind. This type of straddle is usually optional, and posted as a “live straddle,” giving it last action before the flop. Less commonly, house rules may allow a straddle to be posted form any position. A straddle which is posted on the button is called a “Mississippi Straddle.”