poker-evaluator
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A library to evaluate 3, 5, 6 or 7 card poker hands
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Poker Hand Evaluator
This is the official repository of the npm module poker-evaluator.
This is a poker hand evaluator using the Two Plus Two algorithm and lookup table. The lookup table HandRanks.dat is included in the module.
Capable of evaluating 3, 5, 6 and 7 card hands. The highest hand possible in a 3 card hand is 3 of a kind (straights & flushes do not apply to 3 cards).
This can evaluate about 22MM hands per second on a quad-core 2.7GHz Macbook Pro. Run the speedtest.js file under /test to try it.
Installation
npm install poker-evaluator
ORyarn add poker-evaluator
Usage:
Call the public evalHand
method with a single argument, an array of 3, 5, 6 or 7 cards as:
- Strings in the format 'Xy' where X = rank and y = suit. This is case insensitive so xy or XY (or any other combination) work fine too.
- Ranks: A, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T, J, Q, K
- Suits: c, d, h, s
- Numbers corresponding to the values in the deck (currently does not work for 3 card hands)
Call the public winningOddsForPlayer
method to estimate the odds of winning a hand given your cards.
This returns a single PlayerOdds
record. Example usage:
winningOddsForPlayer(['ah','as'],[],5, 1000) // {'winRate':0.56,'splitRates':[{'rate':0.006, 'ways':2},...{'rate':...,'ways':n}]}
winningOddsForPlayer(['ah','as'],['2c','3c','4c','5c'],5, 1000) // {'winRate':0.03...}
winningOddsForPlayer(['ah','as'],[],2, 1000) // {'winRate':0.85,...}
Call the public winningHandsForTable
method to get spectator odds for each players hand.
This returns a TableOdds
record. Example usage:
winningOddsForTable([['ah','as'],['kd','kh']], [], 2, 1000) // {'players':[{'winRate'...},...]}
This can be called with partial hands, such as:
winningOddsForTable([['ah','as'],['kd'],[]], [], 3, 1000)
See odds types for the structure of odds.
See src/constants/deck.const.ts
for the full deck
Typescript:
import * as PokerEvaluator from 'poker-evaluator-ts';
PokerEvaluator.evalHand(['As', 'Ks', 'Qs', 'Js', 'Ts', '3c', '5h']);
//{ handType: 9,
// handRank: 10,
// value: 36874,
// handName: 'straight flush' }
PokerEvaluator.evalHand(['As', 'Ac', 'Qs']);
//{ handType: 2,
// handRank: 2761,
// value: 10953,
// handName: 'one pair' }
Importing in JavaScript:
const PokerEvaluator = require('poker-evaluator');
Passing numbers as arguments (values from deck.const.ts):
PokerEvaluator.evalHand([17, 22, 27, 32, 33]);
//{ handType: 5,
// handRank: 6,
// value: 20486,
// handName: 'straight' }
The returned object is an EvaluatedHand
(src/types/evaluated-hand.interface.ts). An explanation of its properties is as follows:
handType: number; // Index of the HAND_TYPES array
handRank: number; // Rank within the handType
value: number; // Overall value of this hand, the higher the better. USE THIS TO DETERMINE WINNER OF A HAND
handName: HandName; // Human readable name of the hand
Contributing
To contribute create a pull request from your fork to this repository.
Contributors
David Chen - Wrote original poker-evaluator
Rory Mcgit - Made project typescript friendly
Aaron Segal - Added odds calculator