SELECT DISTINCT QUOTE(CATS(SUIT,NUM)) INTO :HANDS SEPARATED BY ' ' FROM CAT, SEQ

Out of which, there are 7,462 distinct scores, The whole process runs less than 10 secs on myĤx core pc, win7, if you already have the hands, to rank 100 of them takes less than 1 sec*/ *I use 14 to address 'A' for the simplicity of coding. All of the business requirements are obtained from Wikipedia: List of poker hands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Since it took me some effort to know Poker rules using Wiki, I will probably use it as the material for a paper for next year SESUG. Well, I came from non-western culture where Poker has different rules. I suppose I won't know until I've created the algorithm but It is a concern.Īny help on this would be very much appreciated The poker games I'm trying to simulate might only involve 50 hands altogether but hat means looking up the rank table 300 times. But I'm a bit concerned that it will still be too slow if it needs to read a table with 2.6m rows to allocate a rank for every hand.

I need a program that can simulate 1000s of poker games and I think SAS is far superior for this task. I know this can be done in excel but excel is too slow. So the code would need to pick the best 5 card combination out of 7 and then lookup this value in the table above. I am also looking for help on how to check a player's 2 cards and the 5 common cards and allocate a rank based on the first table. In another part of the code I will simulate a poker game between x players. Once this table has been generated I will use it as a reference table to check hands against. loads of steps to check if the hand is a flush, straight etc.) Once I have the first 5 columns, I think the only way of generating the rank is to do a series of steps that determine what rank of hand the player holds i.e. I know it is probably straighforward but I am used to generating data sets in sas. I'm not sure how I would go about generating the 2.6 million hands such that they are all unique. The table might look something like this: 2.6m distinct hands) and then perform an algorithm to allocate a ranking to each hand (there are only approx. I create a table generating every poker hand (there are approx. There is only one way I can see this working: I want to create an algorithm that allocates a player's hand in a poker game a value.

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