Poker odds calculator

[hardieca]

Has anyone heard of an open-source .NET engine that calculates the
winning and losing percentages of hands?

Regards,

Chris

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Has anyone heard of an open-source .NET engine that calculates the
winning and losing percentages of hands?

No - I started writing a poker player at one time but never finished
it. I reckoned that the easiest way of getting a good idea of the odds
is to play a million hands with random decks (given the dealt cards),
and see how many of them win. The maths involved in a precise
calculation would be horrendous.

 

[Fred Mellender]

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=21534 and
http://www.frontiernet.net/~fredm/


The program calculates odds using a Monte Carlo simulation.

 

[Ollie Riches]

do you really think it would be that horrendous

Ollie Riches

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

do you really think it would be that horrendous

Yup. I've got a maths degree but wouldn't like to spend the time
working it out. If you're an expert in probability and combinatorics it
*might* just be quicker to work out the probability than to write the
code to simulate it - but I doubt it...