Originally Posted by BigBlue56
Most of my 'home' poker has been played in local lounges. We've been in a few different places, with mostly the same gang. A couple weeks ago, I returned to one lounge after a hiatus there of a few years (long, unrelated story).
I introduced the owner/player to OFC, and we played for money for the first time last night. He's a good SSNL player, and took to OFC pretty quickly, although still has a bit more to learn than I do.
In the interest of playing like I play on the iPad, I told him about bonus hands and fantasyland (FL). The chart I used is at the bottom.
He wanted to play for money, I didn't want to clean him out in one hand, and proposed capping payouts per hand. I was thinking 20 units was plenty to win on one single hand, but he declined and off we went.
Unfortunately, I don't know the fine print. On my suggestion, we skipped paying 6 pairs or no broadway cards (we didn't hit any naturals anyway).
6-pairs and other naturals are only played in Chinese Poker (the closed face kind), not Open Face.
For those that play, do you cap wins per hand?
The cap per hand is the amount of chips a player has in front of him. Meaning, table stakes apply here, too.
When he ran low on chips (I crushed him most of the session), he dug into his pocket to finish paying off a big hand. I assume that's standard for OFC.
I did get FL (QQ up top) and took the other 2 players (one othe guy had joined us), for a bottom hand bonus, the QQ 7 point bonus and swept the hand (4 points). I offered to play FL without a bonus, but they insisted that the bonus get paid. I missed a chance to set another QQ up top (played a full house instead, didn't see that I could have played QQ up top). They would have let me stay in FL for a 2nd run.
There are two types of scoring methods (1-6 and 2-4). 1-6 appears to be the common one on the apps. You get 1 for winning each street, 6 for a sweep, bonuses are extra. In 2-4, I think it's 1 for each street, plus another for the 'overall', bonuses are extra, too.
Are the bonus points the same for FL? Seems so much easier to set great hand when you see the cards.
Yes. That's the main advantage of FL.
Also it seems that staying in FL actually requires trips up top, full in the middle or quads to qualify.
Yes.
Thought about paying naturals (auto sweep + bonus points) even if not properly set (can't set 6 pairs, would pay 3 straights or 3 flushes if they could have been set, might 'foul' setting other naturals).
Naturals aren't used in OFC, see above.
I think it's going to be a standard way to start each game there, and will probably get much more in even when there aren't plans for a 'regular' game.
Thanks. Have found a OFC Strat thread, will read that as well.
The strat thread was fun a while back. I stopped paying attention when people started math-ing it up.
OFC Bonus points from an app.
You'll find they use Vegas scoring which adjusted the app scoring.
Bottom
Straight 2pts
Flush 4pts
Full house 6pts
Quads 8pts --> 10
Straight Flush 10pts --> 15
Royal Flush 20pts --> 25
Middle
Trips 2pts
Everything else is doubled.
Top
Pair 6s 1
Add one each
Pair As 9
222 10
Add 1 for each increase in rank.