code for poker hand evaluation?

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd try here first.  Does
anyone know of any public domain software, whether it be Cobol or
otherwise (like a sub-program I can call out of a Cobol program) that
evaluates poker hands, specifically Texas Hold 'Em poker hands?

I'm thinking of something like I call the routine with 8 parameters,
the first 7 being the cards in questions, and it returns in the 8'th
parameter the value of the hand, i.e., straight, flush, 2 pair, etc.

I know there are lots of commerical poker software programs that can
all do this function, but I can't find anything that I can interface
with.

Anyone have any possible solutions?  Thanks,

Joe (joemagiera at ameritech dot net)
joemagiera@ameritech.net

joemagiera@ameritech.net wrote:
> Rather than reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd try here first.  Does
> anyone know of any public domain software, whether it be Cobol or
> otherwise (like a sub-program I can call out of a Cobol program) that
> evaluates poker hands, specifically Texas Hold 'Em poker hands?
>
> I'm thinking of something like I call the routine with 8 parameters,
> the first 7 being the cards in questions, and it returns in the 8'th
> parameter the value of the hand, i.e., straight, flush, 2 pair, etc.
>
> I know there are lots of commerical poker software programs that can
> all do this function, but I can't find anything that I can interface
> with.
>
> Anyone have any possible solutions?  Thanks,
>
> Joe (joemagiera at ameritech dot net)
> joemagiera@ameritech.net


Go to www.tucows.com (or is it .net?). They have a games software
section and I imagine that what you want will be available there. BTW,
you should attempt to calculate the probability of your hand winning
and you should be able to do so on two cards upwards.

On 7 Mar 2006 12:05:01 -0800, joemagiera@ameritech.net enlightened us:

>Rather than reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd try here first.  Does
>anyone know of any public domain software, whether it be Cobol or
>otherwise (like a sub-program I can call out of a Cobol program) that
>evaluates poker hands, specifically Texas Hold 'Em poker hands?
>
>I'm thinking of something like I call the routine with 8 parameters,
>the first 7 being the cards in questions, and it returns in the 8'th
>parameter the value of the hand, i.e., straight, flush, 2 pair, etc.
>
>I know there are lots of commerical poker software programs that can
>all do this function, but I can't find anything that I can interface
>with.
>
>Anyone have any possible solutions?  Thanks,
>
>Joe (joemagiera at ameritech dot net)
>joemagiera@ameritech.net

Look here:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/pokerhandevaldoc.asp

or

http://www.softlookup.com/display.asp?id=8630

or

http://www.pokerstove.com/analysis/zealots.php

Google is your friend!

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