Pineapple Strategy Thread

[Eric]

Would you set the king in the middle instead of the front?

OneByPhi (dealer)
X / 2 / 9 8 7 J

Eric
K Q / 7 5 / J

[OneByPhi]

Would you set the king in the middle instead of the front?

Setting
K Q / 7 5 / J
means you're playing for KK or QQ /2 pair like 7755 / whatever you can scare up starting with a bare J, most likely Jacks-up.

Setting
Q /K 7 5 / J
means you're playing for QQ / KK or 7755 /whatever you can scare up starting with a bare J, most likely Jacks-up.

Lately, I've been playing the KQ up (depending on the exact texture of the other 3 cards) because it gives you so much more flexibility on top to get to FL (6 FL draw outs vs. 3 FL draw outs). Admittedly, it's a lot harder to draw 2-pair starting from 75 than it is to draw one K or a 7 and a 5, and if you catch the K early it gives you a chance to toss bricks in the mid, but if you catch just the K or the Q (rather than both), playing KQ up still makes FL easier.

If you change the Qh to the Qd and the 7d to the 9h, I think the case for
Q /K 5 / J 9
breaking up the K and the Q is pretty good because the suited one-gapper in the bottom can improve in so many ways, but in hands like the one you posted, I like the KQ on top.