Crazy Pineapple 8b Poker

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1. Roman J. Peterson says:

   September 9, 2010 at 12:27 am

   I bought this book because I had purchased Greenblatt’s other book, Practical Low and No Limit Texas Hold’em Ring Games. This book is a big print edition – nothing wrong with that, I just wish it would have stated it somewhere, I still would have bought the book. The book keeps the same pattern as the previous book, the example games are in the form of ring games for Crazy Pineapple 8b. It is not a beginner book because some people won’t “get it” – at home games you play ring games generally when you have poker night. His examples are decent because he shows what people’s bankrolls are in a sample session of Crazy Pineapple. He shows what cards people have after the discard of the third card. Though it might have been nice to see what they discarded, in terms of game play and one’s decision to play the hand or not, it doesn’t matter. In real life games you generally don’t see discarded hands anyways. Overall the book met my expectations for two reasons because there are not any other books on Crazy Pineapple out there and similar to almost all other poker books in print, you only get one or two things from each book if you have been playing for awhile. There are some other brief chapters on variations as well as Omaha 8b. They had some interesting things in there. If you have the money to spend, I’d recommend getting it.
   Rating: 3 / 5

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2. R. Gabrielson says:

   September 9, 2010 at 2:26 am

   I bought this book because I was curious about crazy pineapple and this is the only book about it available. This is simply the worst poker book ever written and possibly the worst book of any kind ever written. It’s printed in type about three times normal size to make it fill 130 pages. Even at that it consists of nothing but the vaguest advice and a bunch of example hands consisting of seemingly random play with no explanation. Each of these is padded out with useless lists of each player’s chip count (usually everyone has $100 in a $2/4 limit game) and which two cards the players who folded would have kept after the flop had they stayed in (without telling you what their third card was). This way each hand takes up about three pages when it could have been given in a short paragraph. If the book were of normal size and normal typeface, and not padded with a few extraneous chapters unrelated to the game, there would have been room for about fifty times more example hands. Not that it matters, since fifty times nothing is still nothing. I’ve played crazy pineapple exactly once and I can honestly state I learned absolutely nothing from this book. [...]
   
   Rating: 1 / 5

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3. Cody Anderson says:

   September 9, 2010 at 3:07 am

   Mr. Greenblatt does a pretty good job explaining how to play Crazy Pineapple 8b. I wish he had more low hands for the examples but he got the message across to me. The sample hands are good to follow along with. He cuts to the chase and he offered a couple of things that I didn’t know that will help me in my homegame. I probably will get a copy to give to a friend for the simple reason – and Greenblatt nails this in his book – the game is one of the most emotional games in poker. My friend wants to play the game and finds it too complicated. The book will take him over the learning curve and he has zero self discipline like a lot of players. Despite reading about correct plays and decisions, he, like a lot of others, is the type who wants lots of action and will go nuts in betting. All the better for me. Get the book…..
   Rating: 5 / 5

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