CRAZY PINEAPPLE POKER

BASIC RULES AND THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS

BETTING

Betting is one of the most important elements of the Poker game. It consists in adding a specific amount of money to the pot on the table. Having created the pot, each player has three possibilities:

That is all regarding the first stage of the game. In the next three stages there is one more specific possibility; a player can check. It is possible only when in a new stage none of the players has raised the stake or has added anything to the pot. There is one exception - the player who offered "large blind" can check at the first stage when no one has raised his or her bet.

If a player went to great expense during previous bets, it is not necessary for them to leave the game if betting continues and they have no money to call. When they feel that they have "good cards", which will let them win they add all they have to the pot (i.e. all-in), and all bet surpluses are transferred to another pot (i.e. side-pot). If a "poor" player wins, they receive the amount only from the pot they added money to. The "side-pot" is received by the player who has the second best card combination.

It is widely accepted that the names of a raise and a call change depending on the sequence of raise in a particular betting. If nobody has raised, a call is called "Call"; if somebody has raised, it is called "Check". A raise is called "Bet", if nobody has raised; if there was a raise, it is called "Raise"; if the game is played with a limit, and it is the last raise turn allowed, it is called "Cap".

RAISING RULES

STRUCTURED LIMIT

In the first betting the player who is the first after the dealer posts a "small blind" equal to the value of BLIND (call); another one posts a "big blind", which equals to double BLIND. Another player starts the actual betting. In the first two betting turns the minimum Bet/Raise stake is double BLIND, in the third and fourth turn it is four times BLIND. The number of betting turns in one betting is limited to four.

There are two kinds of STRUCTURED LIMIT:
      1. BET LIMIT - which means that the BLIND (Call) will simultaneously be the stake base. Thus, if we set the BLIND (Call) to 100$, during the first and the second betting the stake and the raise will equal 200$, and during the third and the fourth ones - 400$. In this mode there is no possibility of adjusting the stake,
      2. POT LIMIT - Minimum raise is the value of the previous person's raise, and maximum raise is the sum of the stake lying on the table and the amount the latest player raised by. For the first person in a new turn the minimum raise is the amount of BLIND.

NO LIMIT

The Call structure is the same as in case of the structured limit The minimum Bet/Raise stake is the amount of BLIND (Call). There is no limit to the number of raising turns in one betting.

NOTE: If there are only two players at the table, there is neither Small Blind nor Large Blind. There is only ANTE, which is valued double BLIND (Call).

Apart from traditional Call structure (bring-in, blind, small-blind, large-blind, ante), our Pokers make it possible to define the so-called table stake. It is the amount which is added to the above-mentioned values. Such a method enables us to start the game with some initial table betting, which is obligatory for each player. The "table stake" is presented as Ante at the table.