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Posted By admin On 09/04/22At Poker Straight Rules King Ace Two online casinos, there are usually two types of table games to choose from: digital table games or live table games. The former type – also called video table games – are exactly what they sound like: You are playing a game on an RNG (random number generation) platform that offers you the same odds to win as brick-and-mortar casinos. A straight is 5 cards in order, such as 4-5-6-7-8. An ace may either be high (A-K-Q-J-T) or low (5-4-3-2-1). However, a straight may not 'wraparound'. (Such as Q-K-A-2-3, which is not a straight).
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The idea of this project is to invent a procedure poker-valuethat works like this:
As you can see, we are representing cards and hands just as in theBridge project, except that poker hands have only fivecards.[1]
Here are the various kinds of poker hands, in decreasing order of value:
| • | Royal flush: ten, jack, queen, king, and ace, all of the same suit |
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| • | Straight flush: five cards of sequential rank, all of the same suit |
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| • | Four of a kind: four cards of the same rank |
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| • | Full house: three cards of the same rank, and two of a second rank |
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| • | Flush: five cards of the same suit, not sequential rank |
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| • | Straight: five cards of sequential rank, not all of the same suit |
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| • | Three of a kind: three cards of the same rank, no other matches |
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| • | Two pair: two pairs of cards, of two different ranks |
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| • | Pair: two cards of the same rank, no other matches |
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| • | Nothing: none of the above |
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An ace can be the lowest card of a straight (ace, 2, 3, 4, 5) orthe highest card of a straight (ten, jack, queen, king, ace), but a straightcan't 'wrap around'; a hand with queen, king, ace, 2, 3 would be worthless(unless it's a flush).
Notice that most of the hand categories are either entirely about the ranksof the cards (pairs, straight, full house, etc.) or entirely about thesuits (flush). It's a good idea to begin your program by separating therank information and the suit information. To check for a straight flush orroyal flush, you'll have to consider both kinds of information.
In what form do you want the suit information? Really, all you need is atrue or false value indicating whether or not the hand is a flush, becausethere aren't any poker categories like 'three of one suit and two ofanother.'
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What about ranks? There are two kinds of hand categories involving ranks: the ones about equal ranks (pairs, full house) and the ones about sequentialranks (straight). You might therefore want the rank information in twoforms. A sentence containing all of the ranks in the hand, in sorted order,will make it easier to find a straight. (You still have to be careful aboutaces.)
For the equal-rank categories, what you want is some data structure thatwill let you ask questions like 'are there three cards of the same rankin this hand?' We ended up using a representation like this:
One slightly tricky aspect of this solution is that we spelledout the numbers of cards, one to four, instead of using the moreobvious (1 Q 2 3 2 4). The reason, as you can probably tell just bylooking at the latter version, is that it would lead to confusion betweenthe names of the ranks, most of which are digits, and the numbers ofoccurrences, which are also digits. More specifically, by spelling out thenumbers of occurrences, we can use member? to ask easily if there isa three-of-a-kind rank in the hand.
You may find it easier to begin by writing a version that returns only thename of a category, such as three of a kind, and only after you getthat to work, revise it to give more specific results such as threesixes.
Extra Work for Hotshots
In some versions of poker, each player gets seven cards and can choose anyfive of the seven to make a hand. How would it change your program if theargument were a sentence of seven cards? (For example, in five-card pokerthere is only one possible category for a hand, but in seven-card you haveto pick the best category that can be made from your cards.) Fix yourprogram so that it works for both five-card and seven-card hands.
Another possible modification to the program is to allow for playing with'wild' cards. If you play with 'threes wild,' it means that if there isa three in your hand you're allowed to pretend it's whatever card you like.For this modification, your program will require a second argument indicatingwhich cards are wild. (When you play with wild cards, there's thepossibility of having five of a kind. This beats a straight flush.)
[1] Later on we'll think about seven-card variants of poker.BACKchapter thread NEXT
Brian Harvey,bh@cs.berkeley.eduPlaying pocket Ace Five, Ace Four , Ace Three, and Ace Two Off Suit and Ace Five, Ace Four , Ace Three, and Ace Two Suited in Texas Hold'em Poker.
If you have been following this series, you will notice that most of the articles contain advice about only one hand. The reason I have combined all of these hands here is they are all played exactly the same way. These hands are similar because they can all make a straight and are very weak kicker wise. The great majority of the time it is correct to fold these hands, so if you have any question about whether or not it is correct to play in a particular situation, it is best to fold. The suited hands are stronger than the non-suited ones, but even they are weak because the flush will not come often enough to make them profitable in most situations. These hands require a large number of opponents to build the pot after the flop when you hit a hand. They do not play well in short handed pots; so avoid this situation at all costs. It is worth missing a few opportunities to play them when you aren't sure the situation is ideal.
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Early Position
In all but the very loosest and most passive games, all of these hands should be folded from early position. If there is any chance of a raise behind you, which there is in most games, these hands are not strong enough to enter the pot. Even in a game where five or more see every flop without a raise, it is incorrect to play the non-suited hands listed above. The suited ones are just barely playable in these games, but usually can be played because when you hit your flush the pot will tend to be very large, making up for the many times you don't win. Even in the games it is safe to enter with the suited hands, you must be disciplined enough to fold after the flop if it doesn't help you considerably. If you never play another one of these hands from early position you will most likely be a more profitable player.
Middle Position
Play these hands the same from middle position as from early position. If there has been a raise, the correct play is a fold.
Late Position
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If there are already many players in the pot and it is unraised, you can play the suited hands from late position. Otherwise it is correct to fold them. I even fold the non-suited hands from late position in unraised pots over 95% of the time. They just aren't good enough to play.
Blind Play
If the pot is not raised, I always see the flop with these hands. When the pot is raised, I will call a single bet with the suited hands, if there are many opponents. In both situations, if the flop does not help me I will get away from them to any aggression. Even when the flop contains an Ace I will fold to aggression. It is very likely that I am out kicked.