Card values are worth a great deal in poker, since it's common for someone to have the same type of hand as an opponent, but with different values - e.g. JJ vs. KK - both are pairs, but the K's are the better hand.
Practically speaking, you only need to worry about card values in cases where more than one player has the same type of hand. Then, you compare the highest value card in each player's hand that is part of pair, straight, etc. There are also games like Razz or Omaha Hi/Lo where you also have to account for low value hands as well, which are winners in those games, so you would be determining which hand has the lowest total card value, but that don't contain any paired cards. If you don't care about those games though, you can certainly save a lot of effort. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:34 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ordering Poker hands > > But card values aren't worth spit in poker. It's card combinations that > you > have to worry about, and calculate for. For instance, what's the chance of > filling 2-3-4-5 on the turn, or on the river? Against 4-4? Or A-A? > AAArrgh! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Casey Dougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:59 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ordering Poker hands > > > On 11/7/06, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > make faces = 10 > > make aces = 1 or 11 > > > You would need to give every card in the deck a number with a letter > next to them for suit. > face cards as 10 would work for blackjack but that's it. > > 2-h, 2-d, 2-s, 2-c > 6-h, 6-d, 6-s, 6-c > 12-h, 12-d, 12-s, 12-c > > You could also do some math here and label all cards 1 - 52 and > determine suit from where the number falls in the deck. > > Need to count those straight flush hands!!! :-) > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259516 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
