7 Card Poker Hand Evaluator

Question

Does anyone know a fast algorithm for evaluating 7 card poker hands? Something which is more efficient than simply brute-force checking a every 21 5-card combination of hands fr

Answer 1

I developed a simulator Texas hold'em and during this development I found the number of 7462 unique combinations (52 - 5/5 cards) on the flop. In turn, this number drops to 6075 (5/6) and in the river to 4824 (5/7). This is because 1 or 2 cards are irrelevant in classifying the poker hand. An example is: 76543QK = 7654332 a straight (3 to 7)

My simulator is called Easy Poker and is available in my site http://crvltda.webs.com

Ref. Pokersoftware.com/forum