Subj : Re: texas holdem
To   : comp.programming
From : cri
Date : Fri Oct 07 2005 04:54 am

On 6 Oct 2005 12:30:03 -0700, bob@coolgroups.com wrote:

>i tried googling for "poker odds algorithms", and i found nothing
>useful.
>
>richard, what do you mean by account for ranks?  and, what about
>straights?

If we neglect flushes the suits of the cards are unimportant.  This
reduces the number of cases enormously.  For example there are 1326
possible concealed cards (52*51/2) but only 78 distinct concealed
cards if you ignore suits.



Richard Harter, cri@tiac.net
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