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.
Questions tagged [poker]
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five hand card game and couldn't figure out, badugi & four of a kind
am trying to find four of a kind in a five-card poker hand. but it's not working and couldn't figure out why.
public boolean hasFourOfaKind(String hand) {
int counter = 0;
char x = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < hand.length(); i++)…
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Calculating poker preflop equity efficient
I've read many articles about the Monte Carlo algorithm for approximating the preflop equity in NL holdem poker.
Unfortunately, it iterates over only a few possible boards to see what happens. The good thing about this is that you can put in exact…
Bruno Zell
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Classes and implementing them
So I am having some trouble with programming. I have a project that my professor wants us to make a poker game. We are supposed to have a Card class with
public members: Constructer,ShuffleCard, GetCard(), and Thirteen void functions to display…
Sarah Drury
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How do I compare two randomly picked arrays with earlier picks?
I'm trying to create a version of a poker, where the program hands out 2 cards to each player (6 of them). I've come up with a program that can pick 1 random card for every player, but the problem is that sometimes, 2 players get the same card. My…
FilipLIS
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Sorting Card objects inside of the Hand object
I have almost everything ready for my poker game. What I want to do next is to sort cards in players hand by rank value. You know "two" is byte 2, "three" is byte 3 etc...
This is my enum CardRank class
public enum CardRank {
TWO((byte)2,…
Matt
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A poker card game in C. Please explain suits[4][9], and faces[13][6]?
So I have a sample code to create a deck of card for a mini poker game in c. But I do not understand how the suits and faces are determined. Why do these arrays have 2 dimensions? I know that [9] and [6] are the columns of the array, but I do not…
Quan Bui
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Python class example texas holdem efficiency
Hi am working on a simple texas holdem dealing simulator. I am new to python and was hoping to get some advice on my use of classes here. I feel like I am not using them as efficiently as possible, especially when dealing out the player cards.…
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How to find all sequences of three in an array of values
first question ever here...
I am coding a simple 3-card poker hand evaluator and am having problems finding/extracting multiple "straights" (sequential series of values) from an array of values.
I need to extract and return EVERY straight the array…
LilGames
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Poker hand analyze and clean code
I have a question more about style rather than implementation. I'm working on poker application. It has a class storing all required data, like five cards. There is also second structure, which models the FigureAnalyzer - piece of code to determine,…
Treck
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Programming a Poker Hand Calculator in C++
I've written a few hundred lines of code for a 5 card Poker Hand Calculator in C++ to practice using classes. Here is part of the member function I've written to compare two hands that are both TwoPairs. I've thoroughly tested all of my boolean…
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Planning Poker estimation by whole story or by task
We're planning to start with Scrum and preparing some stuff at the moment.
We'd like to use planning poker for the refinement.
But I can't find the information, if each member of the squad have to estimate the whole story or just his task like…
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Training a neural net to predict the winner of a card game
In a made up card game there are 2 players, each of which are dealt 5 cards (standard 52 card deck), after which some arbitrary function decides a winning player. The goal is to predict the outcome of the game, given the 5 cards that each player is…
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Poker Hand Ranking loop combinations
So I'm currently making a hand ranking program for my own personal experience growth. However, how I want to do it is with a 5 card out of 7 card evaluation.
So for example, I currently have an array with 7 values. I want to run 5 of the objects…
Daniel
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unpacking a string with list comprehension python
I got the following code.
hand = '6C 7C 8C 9C TC'.split()
so hand is now a list of strings ['6C', '7C', '8C', '9C', 'TC']
then
ranks = ["--23456789TJKA".index(r) for r, s in hand]
ranks is now [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
The aim is to give card's rank the…
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Method of storing strings other than List
I'm developing a poker app and currently I want to store all the card combinations names I'm planning to use list and do something like this :
private static List combinationNames = new List
{
" High Card ",
" Pair ",
"…
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