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There are quite a few poker variations out there, but Texas Hold’em poker is one of the more popular ones to play, especially in high-stakes tournaments and casinos. In fact, when we say poker, we’re usually referring to Texas Hold’em poker specifically, or the lesser-played five-card stud. Despite this, many versions follow the same hand values as Texas Hold’em poker.

Why are hand strengths important to know? Well, if you’re new to the game, it’s vital you memorize the order of hands so you know when to bet. Hand strength dictates your probability of winning, even when you have no hand at all. Let’s take a look at the hand strengths for Texas hold’em poker from best to worst!

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Royal Flush

This hand is so rare you probably will never see it in person. In fact, your chance of getting a royal flush in any given hand is .00001%. Why’s it so rare? It’s the highest cards: A, K, Q, J, 10 in any of the four suits, meaning there are only four ways to get it. It’s also the best hand in poker, so if you are one of the lucky few, you’re going to win the round.

Straight Flush

The straight flush is like a royal flush, but with any other five cards in sequential order and the same suit. A good example would be K, Q, J, 10, 9 in any of the same suit. Remember that the higher the combination of cards, the better the hand is.

Four of a Kind

This hand is what it sounds like: four of the same card. Also very rare because you would need all four cards in the deck. Think four 10s, four Jacks, and so on.

Full House

Here’s where the hands start to get more common. A full house is 2 of one kind (any suit) and 3 of another (any suit). So a combination would be 2 5’s and 3 Aces. The higher the combination, the better the full house is. Full Houses are ranked by their triplet pairs first, then their doubles. If they just differ in suit, then they are equally ranked.

Flush

A flush is five cards in any numerical order, but they all have the same suit. So five cards that are diamond, or five that are hearts. It doesn’t count if you only have four, so be careful not to risk too much if you’re missing a card for a flush.

Straight

Right below a flush is a straight. These are cards in sequential order, but not the same suit. 2,3,4,5,6 (6-high) is the lowest form of straight, so that hand would lose to a 3,4,5,6,7 (7-high) straight.

Three of a Kind

This one is pretty straightforward: three of the same number. J, J, J, etc. They do not have to be the same suit (and can’t be unless you use multiple decks).

Two Pair

A two pair is two sets of the same numbers. J, J, 10, 10 is a good example. This is a really common type of hand, as the probability to get it is fairly good. The numbers don’t have to match suits.

Pair

This is the second lowest hand: two of the same number. A, A is the highest pair you can have.

High Card

When all else fails, the highest card wins. Even if you don’t have a great hand, your high card is important, and has decided many matches. Your high card is ALWAYS in play, so even if you have a great hand, remember that if someone matches your hand strength, the high card will decide the winner. Keep this in mind, because it happens a lot.

Now that you know the basic hand strengths in Texas Hold’em poker, you’re ready to start playing! Try playing without betting first so you get a feel for the game without the pressure of tossing chips away. Good luck! See more how-tos over at our blog!

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Can somebody suggest me a good algorithm to calculate

Hand Strength

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Texas Holdem, Omaha

Poker games. Apart from this i am also

working on Pot creation and Rake calculation

part. It would be helpful if anyone could contribute some logic or algorithms.

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Kapish M Joshi wrote:Can somebody suggest me a good algorithm to calculate Hand Strength

No, because it isn't really an algorithm: it's an ordered list; and 10 seconds on Google got me this. If I was doing this, I'd probably consider using an Enum to define it though.

Apart from this i am also working on Pot creation and Rake calculation part. It would be helpful if anyone could contribute some logic or algorithms.

Again, the 'Pot' isn't really an algorithm; it's a structure - basically a List with methods for providing totals - and I reckon it's probably closely related to the Players at the table.
As for Rake calculation, you'll have to explain the term before I can help. Not a gambler.
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Hi Winston,
Appreciate your help. Thanks. Yeah, http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-hand-ranking this is actually the pattern that should be considered while calculating strength of cards.
For E.g. Consider simplest logic, If I am playing Poker Hand and
I got 5 cards as - 2♥ 7♦ 4 ♣ A♠ A♥,
Next person got 5 cards as - 5♥ 2♦ Q ♣ K♠ J♥,
here every card has a weight say 2♥- 23, 7♦ - 67, 4 ♣ - 98, A♠ - 122, A♥ - 109 then we have to create total and then compare both hands. The one with more weight wins the hand.
This is not really as simple as even i thought because there are millions of combinations possible with a hand (5 cards taken from a deck).
I am trying to implement this using pattern recognition, but that too is very lengthy.
Pot - yeah Pot is winning total at the end of poker hand, its not algorithm but we need to write some logic to calculate pot because:
1. Poker game can have number of Hands
2. Each Hand will add to the value of pot
3. Bets of each player will contribute to pot
4. Pot distribution depends upon the percentage of amount contributed by particular player to total pot amount
5. There can be one or more than one pot winners
I am done with the logic creation part for this.
Rake - Its the amount deducted from player whenever he bets some amount on table. It is the pivot of gambling where revenue generation happens. Can't disclose about it in details.

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Winston Gutkowski wrote:

Kapish M Joshi wrote:Can somebody suggest me a good algorithm to calculate Hand Strength

No, because it isn't really an algorithm: it's an ordered list
I don't that's what he's going for...
In standard Texas Hold 'Em, everyone is dealt two cards face down. there is a round of betting. You have to decide if to bet, and how much to bet, based on the two card. So being dealt a suited A-K is clearly going to be better than a non-suited 10-9. And an unsuited 2-7 is the worst possible starting hand.
But even at that...your position at the table also has an impact. If you are in an early position, you need a stronger hand if you are going to bet, whereas if you are on the button, you can bet with weaker hand - depending on what everyone else does.

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and 'Rake' isn't very complicated. It refers to how much money the house takes from each pot. It is generally only applied to casinos or on-line cash games. If you are playing at home with friends, there usually isn't one.
It can be done in any of several ways:
A fee to join the tournament
A percentage of each pot
A fee charged to the 'dealer' on each hand
Some online services charge a monthly fee (i.e. a subscription), but then play is 'free' beyond that
etc..

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Kapish M Joshi wrote:here every card has a weight say 2♥- 23, 7♦ - 67, 4 ♣ - 98, A♠ - 122, A♥ - 109 then we have to create total and then compare both hands. The one with more weight wins the hand.

Doesn't sound right to me.
First: the problem is complicated by the fact that you're choosing the 'best 5 of 7' (actually: Player's 2, plus the best 3-of-5 from the flop, turn and river). Suit strength texas holdem

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Second: Any 'weighting' will only apply to:
(a) The value of card involved in making up two similar winning hands.
(b) The remaining cards of two identical winning hands.

I am trying to implement this using pattern recognition, but that too is very lengthy.

And possibly over-engineering. You only have 9 possible hands (10 if you count 'High Card', but personally I'd say that that's the absence of any other kind of hand) that fall into 3 categories:
1. Flushes - 5 cards of the same suit.
2. Straights - 5 cards in value sequence.
3. Multiples - 2, 3, or 4 cards of the same value (including full houses).
so I'd make those your first checks.
I'd also do them in the order above because in 'vanilla' form, that's the order they're ranked. And unless you're playing from a multi-deck shoe (unusual, from what a gather), it also eliminates the most possibilities:

If you find a flush in the 7 possible cards, it must be the best hand available to the player. So, the only other thing you need to check is:
Are those same 5 cards (or a particular set, if there's more than one combination to choose from) ALSO a straight?

If you don't find a flush, but DO find a straight, again, it must be the best hand available to the player.

If you don't find a flush, or a straight, the only other possible hand is a multiple (or twin-multiple) of some kind. I'll leave you to sort out that logic, but it's still relatively straightforward.

With a multi-deck shoe, it's a bit trickier, but still relatively straightforward. The main difference is that if you find a flush; the 7 cards could ALSO contain 4 of a kind or a full house.
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fred rosenberger wrote:I don't that's what he's going for...

Oh, OK. I was thinking of weighting in terms of final evaluation. Seems to me that weighting (especially by card) probably isn't the way to go for evaluating a hand (or, more accurately, a 'situation'), since there are so many other variables - including the 'weight' that you might put on any previous bet placed, particularly if the game involves 'blinds'.
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Thanks Winston. Actually the game being developed will go live for real money poker gaming; at early stage we are expecting around 1000 players playing online at the same time while approximately 200 just logged in and watching game. The knowledge you shared was really helpful.

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Kapish M Joshi wrote:Thanks Winston...The knowledge you shared was really helpful.

No probs. Too much late night TV. I've never actually played the game.
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Winston is correct in that there is no real need to calculate hand strength until the very end of the hand where you are forced to determine the winner (showdown). For human players playing against other human players this will be sufficient as long as your program knows how to read the player's hands and evaluate them based on the list of hand rankings, flush beats straight for example.
If you're developing a poker playing artificial intelligence or if you're just curious you may want to look into starting hand strength from a strategic standpoint. As was pointed out, in texas holdem an ace and a king is a better starting hand than a two and a seven. One way to determine this is by running both hands through an equity simulator, which is a program that runs hundreds of thousands of different possible boards out that allows you to get a pretty accurate estimate as to which hand wins more often. Then you can run each hand against each other possible hand, determine an average equity and then rank the hands accordingly. There are two great free programs out there that do this already:
PokerStove
ProPokerTools
Its still however, ultimately a matter of strategy that determines what the best hands are and not programming since there are different betting streets and different player psychologies.
TwoPlusTwo is a great strategy site that also has a programming forum.

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I created somthing similar a while ago, it wasnt very nice coding.. but it was something fun to do.
ANyway have you looked at bill chen formula, that is very easy to convert into an algorithm. Il also try and find the site i used, it was a points scale basically, which would tell me whether i should raise or fold..etc..etc.. not sire if that what your lookign for.

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Here is complete code to compute strength of hand whick I learn from an online course.

import itertools def best_hand(hand): 'From a 7-card hand, return the best 5 card hand.' return max(itertools.combinations(hand, 5), key=hand_rank) def hand_rank(hand): 'Return a value indicating the ranking of a hand.' ranks = card_ranks(hand) if straight(ranks) and flush(hand): return (8, max(ranks)) elif kind(4, ranks):#four of a kind return (7, kind(4, ranks), kind(1, ranks)) elif kind(3, ranks) and kind(2, ranks):#full house return (6, kind(3, ranks), kind(2, ranks)) elif flush(hand):#all cards of same suit return (5, ranks) elif straight(ranks):#cards in sequence return (4, max(ranks)) elif kind(3, ranks):#3 cards of same rank return (3, kind(3, ranks), ranks) elif two_pair(ranks):#2 pairs of same rank return (2, two_pair(ranks), ranks) elif kind(2, ranks):#1 pair of same rank return (1, kind(2, ranks), ranks) else:#Nothing (High Card) return (0, ranks) def card_ranks(hand): 'Return a list of the ranks, sorted with higher first.' ranks = ['--23456789TJQKA'.index(r) for r, s in hand] ranks.sort(reverse=True) #to handle the (A-5) straight case return [5, 4, 3, 2, 1] if (ranks [14, 5, 4, 3, 2]) else ranks def flush(hand): 'Return True if all the cards have the same suit.' suits = [s for r, s in hand] return len(set(suits)) 1 def straight(ranks): ''Return True if the ordered ranks form a 5-card straight.'' return (max(ranks) - min(ranks) 4) and len(set(ranks)) 5 def kind(n, ranks): ''Return the first rank that this hand has exactly n-of-a-kind of. Return None if there is no n-of-a-kind in the hand.'' for r in ranks: if ranks.count(r) n: return r return None def two_pair(ranks): ''If there are two pair here, return the two ranks of the two pairs, else None.'' pair = kind(2, ranks) lowpair = kind(2, list(reversed(ranks))) if pair and lowpair != pair: return (pair, lowpair) else: return None def test_best_hand(): # S = Spade # D = Diamond # C = Club # H = Heart assert (sorted(best_hand('6C 7C 8C 9C TC 5C JS'.split())) ['6C', '7C', '8C', '9C', 'TC']) assert (sorted(best_hand('TD TC TH 7C 7D 8C 8S'.split())) ['8C', '8S', 'TC', 'TD', 'TH']) assert (sorted(best_hand('JD TC TH 7C 7D 7S 7H'.split())) ['7C', '7D', '7H', '7S', 'JD']) return 'test_best_hand passes' print test_best_hand()