This Actionscript Flash poker (5-card & Texas Hold’em) evaluator will evaluate more than 14,000 hands per second, with a size of around 6 kb. It also includes classes to wrap everything up nice and tight for convenience.

Starting from this post about poker hand evaluators, i converted the improved version of Cactukev’s poker hand evaluator to AS3 some time ago, and wrapped it in some nice OO classes to make it easily accessible.

The OO classes include ways to handle a Deck of cards, a Dealer to draw cards from it, objects to represent a 5- and 7-card hand and compare strengths, and a Card class to make card strength and textual representation easy.

The straight dope is that I have tested it to evaluate approx. 2.6 mio. 5-card poker hands in 6.3 seconds, and 133 mio. 7-card poker hands in approx. 2.5 hours, or about 14.000 hands per second. The test evaluated the correct evaluation of all possible 5- and 7-card poker hands. The tests were run on a 2.8 gHz Macbook Pro with 4Gb RAM

Included in the library

source code .swc binary API reference The test to evaluate that it runs correctly here (AIR application)

License: The original code i ported it from was released to the public domain, and is as such free to use, modify and redistribute. I am releasing this code under the MIT license. License info is found in the source files.