On Two Plus Two poker hand evaluator, how do you get the best 5 cards combination out of the 7 that you passed to it?

Question

Is it possible to extract that info from the equivalence value?

I understand that the higher the equivalence value the better. Category and rank can also be extracte

Answer 1

No, it's not possible to extract that information. The lookup table contains only the equivalence values, which are broken into hand type and rank; no other information is preserved.

If you need to evaluate millions of hands per second and get the winning hand for each, instead of just the rank, you'll need to use a different evaluator. If you only need to extract the winning hand rarely, you could use this evaluator, and resort to a slower method to find the best 5 cards when necessary.