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I agree. Not sure how this helps improve poker play.
by samdwilson 6y ago
I agree. Not sure how this helps improve poker play.
- Bnshsysjab 6y agoI doubt it’s supposed to, it’s to calculate who wins when writing your own poker implementation. I am not the author, but calculating the winner is non trivial.
- exdsq 6y agoIs it not? The win criteria is well specified so just iterate downwards from the highest priority win until you find a match?
- Bnshsysjab 6y agoSure, but that gets complicated when comparing two matching hands (flush vs flush, 2 pair vs 2pair). It’s more than a 50 line problem to solve.
- 40four 6y agoI had the same initial reaction as the other person. Should be easy right? I think you’re right though, there are probably many more steps to getting this right than it seems on the surface. I kind of want to take your 50 line challenge however :) I always loved playing poker, might be a fun exercise.
- exdsq 6y agoOkay fair it’s more than 50 lines, I guess my definition of non-trivial is something you can’t quickly think of a design for. I’ll try it later and see if there’s some gotchas I can’t think of :)
- gexla 6y agoIt doesn't. Nothing does. Good poker players should have no problem doing all this in their heads. The tooling which does help is hand analysis and replay. I haven't kept up, but there used to be tools while playing online poker which would track your play and the play of your opponents. Then I believe there were databases where you could upload that information so that you could study the play of regular opponents. Most helpful was looking at your own play though.