I started studying C++ and Object Oriented Programming recently, so I decide to create a small poker game, Texas Hold’em style. It took me three days and 670 lines of code, which I don’t think is too bad given it simulates a complete poker game for one human player against 5 computer players. The fact […]
Still working on my poker game simulation, and now I got to the hand evaluation part. I had written a small C program to do it a while ago, but taking a look at it now, well, all I can say is it was pretty awful. I didn’t sort the cards on that program, so […]
Problem 54 on ProjectEuler.net was an interesting one. Instead of the usual math puzzle it had a more practical topic: Poker. You basically need to evaluate the hands of two players for 1000 rounds, and then determine how many rounds rounds player one wins. The hand evaluator I built was quite naive and used a […]