Just to be accurate (I'm assuming you're ranking the hands below, worst to best) 3 of a kind beats 2 pair (so they need to be flip-flopped below)
> The type of game really isn't important other than to say the winner > would be decided along the lines of "traditional poker" no hi-lo or > anything like that. > > basically: > high card > pair > 3 of a kind > 2 pairs > straight > flush > etc... > > I am trying to do this in a more object oriented fashion so that I can > use this object to determine the winner regardless of the game > providing winners are determined by "Traditional Poker rules". > > I want to pass in the hand and determine it's value then compare it to > the next hand. > > I am thinking that once I have the ability to determine what hand > player 1 has I will then compare player 1's hand to player 2's hand. > I will then compare the best of those to hands to player 3, the best > of that comparison to player 4 etc.. until I have looped through all > the players. > > > I have however just come to the realization that if I want to use the > object to for 5 card stud as well as Texas Hold'em or Omaha for > instance I will need to create the analyzer so that will loop through > all the cards to determine the hand, not just 5 cards. > > >ok, so which types of poker games are you going to have in it then? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:259605 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
