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Questions tagged [poker]

Questions relating to development on the subject of all variants of poker.

Questions in this category contains all aspects of development relating to poker - ie. hand evaluation, game engine, statistics, etc.

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working with HUGE lists in python

how can I manage a huge list of 100+ million strings? How can i begin to work with such a huge list? example large list: cards = [ "2s","3s","4s","5s","6s","7s","8s","9s","10s","Js","Qs","Ks","As" …
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Determining winning amount in Poker without creating side-pots

I'm trying to run a poker simulation and have the following data about a poker table how much each player contributed to the pot a "hand score" (after flop) for each player (ie, if player[0].score == player[1].score, they tied) I'm stuck…
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Algorithms for testing a poker hand for a straight draw (4 to a straight)?

I'm in the throes of writing a poker evaluation library for fun and am looking to add the ability to test for draws (open ended, gutshot) for a given set of cards. Just wondering what the "state of the art" is for this? I'm trying to keep my memory…
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c# check for a poker straight

I am trying to write a poker hand evaluation method in c#. I have managed to do this for every poker hand using linq except a straight. For those that don't play a straight is made up of 5 cards with increments of 1 for each card. Ace can be high…
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php poker generated random results do not match what is expected

I have made a research on poker equities. What I did is use pokerstove program with some selected. And with that program calculated the equities using enumerate all method. So pokerstove results: I also made a table where I store the random…
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Implementing a Dynamic Award System

I have been developing a Online Poker Game. But I keep hitting a wall. I want to implement Awards into the system, but I want them to be dynamic. Meaning I don't want to recompile for every award I would like to add. I have thought about using…
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Algorithm to give a value to a 5 card Poker hand

I am developing a poker game as college project and our current assignment is to write an algorithm to score a hand of 5 cards, so that the scores of two hands can be compared to each other to determine which is the better hand. The score of a hand…
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C# Poker Libraries

I'm building a simple poker website for a demo. Anyone know where I can find a set of classes encapsulating card, deck, hand etc. ? Google is not being very helpful, (most links are to codeproject which is down until 1pm EST - I'm in…
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Design Pattern: Parsing similar, but differing schemas in text files

thanks in advance for your help. I am wondering if there is a (design) pattern that can be applied to this problem. I am looking to parse, process, and extract out values from text files with similar, but differing formats. More specifically, I…
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On Two Plus Two poker hand evaluator, how do you get the best 5 cards combination out of the 7 that you passed to it?

Is it possible to extract that info from the equivalence value? I understand that the higher the equivalence value the better. Category and rank can also be extracted from the equivalence value. But is there a way to find out what the best 5 cards …
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Mental Poker Toolkit

Can anyone suggest a toolkit or framework (or maybe an idea) that can be useful to implement secure and cheat-resistant online poker (texas hold'em) client without trusted third party server?
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Function to determine whether a poker hand is a straight?

For a homework assignment I was given a Card class that has enumerated types for the Rank and Suit. I am required to compare two poker hands (each hand is an ArrayList of 5 cards) and decide the winner. The isStraight() function is really bothering…
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Algorithm to determine the winner of a Texas Hold'em Hand

Ok, so I am making a Texas Hold'em AI for my senior project. I've created the gui and betting/dealing procedures, but I have reached the part where I need to determine who won the hand, and I do not know the best way to approach this. I am using…
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Array.reduce on a multidimensional array to array of objects

In my poker app I have an array of hands, each hand being array of randomly selected card objects with value and suit: [ [ { value: 5, suit: 's' }, { value: 4, suit: 's' }, { value: 6, suit: 'c' }, { value: 11, suit: 'd' }, { value:…
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Determine Poker Table Positions - Sit'n Go Tournaments

Note: I do the javascript code according to the ajrwhite answer. Hope it helps someone. Link: http://codepen.io/eMineiro/pen/EKrNBe Open codepen console to see the examples working. In poker we define player position according to the dealer. Like…
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