Open-Face Chinese Poker Hand Analysis with Alex Goulder
At the end of last year the first ever �1,000 TonyBet Open-Face Chinese Poker World Championship Main Event in Prague drew an remarkable 135 entries, the largest field ever for a live open-face Chinese (OFC) event. Also staged was the �10,000 TonyBet Open-Face Chinese Poker World Championship High Roller which drew 23 players to create a total prize pool of �218,500, the largest ever for an OFC event.
Jennifer Shahade claimed the title and championship belt in the High Roller, earning �100,000 for doing so, while Mikal Blomlie won the belt for the Main Event and a �35,000 first prize.
Another ground-breaking facet of those events was live streaming coverage presented by TonyBet Poker, enabling viewers to follow the action as well as to contemplate OFC strategy. Take a look below as Alex ��PercyPiece�� Goulder analyzes decisions made in a Main Event hand between the eventual third-place finisher Gary Stone and eventual runner-up Jan Hendrik Tapken:
Here��s a second hand between the same pair, also featuring commentary from Goulder:
The variant being played here is pineapple OFC, the rules for which you can find here. That��s one of several OFC variants available to play at TonyBet Poker along with regular OFC, 2-7 OFC, and a new one just added this week �� Progressive Pineapple OFC.
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