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>Open Face Chinese Poker
Interdasting.
Fantasyland is a special bonus awarded to players that make a hand that has a pair of queens (QQx) or stronger in the front hand and does not foul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-face_Chinese_poker#Fantasyland
Nobody is entirely sure where Open-Face Chinese Poker originated. Finnish players claim to have been playing the game for a few years. Ivan Demidov said that he thinks it was invented not in Finland but in neighboring Russia.
While not everyone who is exposed to Open-Face becomes as obsessive about it as Mercier, the game shows no signs of losing steam. Alex Kravchenko, who brought Open-Face back to the private high-stakes games he frequents in Moscow, described it as
“spreading like a virus…
But Open-Face is also a thinking game, what Kravchenko called “a mind game with a lot of strategy and calculations.” Players are forced to make setting decisions without knowing what cards they will draw in the future, but can look to their own hand and their opponents’ hands to calculate what cards remain to be drawn.
The possibility of earning big point bonuses for royalties can entice players away from a basic strategy of simply trying not to foul their hands.
“There’s a ton of decision-making throughout the hand,” Mercier noted. “You can make so many different decisions to change the way you’re going to play your hand. There are so many variables to it.”
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