Program that evaluates the winner of a 2-player Omaha-High Hold’em poker game (also known as pot-limit Omaha).
High Card: Highest value card. One Pair: Two cards of the same value. Two Pairs: Two different pairs. Three of a Kind: Three cards of the same value. Straight: All cards are consecutive values. Flush: All cards of the same suit. Full House: Three of a kind and a pair. Four of a Kind: Four cards of the same value. Straight Flush: All cards are consecutive values of same suit. Royal Flush: Ten, Jack, Queen, King, Ace, in same suit. The cards are valued in the order:
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace.
If two players have the same ranked hands then the rank made up of the highest value wins; for example, a pair of eights beats a pair of fives (see example 1 below). But if two ranks tie, for example, both players have a pair of queens, then highest cards in each hand are compared (see example 4 below); if the highest cards tie then the next highest cards are compared, and so on.
A more elaborate description of poker hand rankings can be found here: https://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-hand-ranking
The goal of this project is to write a program that given the hands of 2 players and the community cards, evaluates the winner.
| Hand | Player 1 | Player 2 | Community | Expected Output |
Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8H AS 3S 3H | TH AD 8D 9C | 2C 9S JH 4D 5S | Player 1 wins | straight Five Four Three Two Ace beats two Nines Ace Jack Five |
| 2 | TC QC 9D 6S | 5C 2S 6C 6H | 6D TH JD 3S KH | Player 1 wins | straight King Queen Jack Ten Nine beats three of a kind Sixs with King Jack |
| 3 | 7S 3H 5D 3S | KH 5C KS 9C | AH 5S 4C TH 7C | Player 2 wins | two Kings Ace Ten Seven beats two Sevens two Fives Ace |
| 4 | 7D 5D 9H KS | 7S 6H 3S 6D | TH 2S 7C 4D QD | Player 1 wins | two Sevens King Queen Ten beats two Sevens Queen Ten Six |
| 5 | 7H KC JD 7C | 6D AD TH KD | KH 6C QD 2D 4D | Player 2 wins | flush Ace King Queen Four Two beats two Kings Queen Jack Six |
| 6 | TC TD KH JS | 8D JC 2H AD | 4D 7S 8C JD 3C | Player 2 wins | two Jacks two Eights Seven beats two Jacks King Eight Seven |
| 7 | 7S 9D 2C JS | AC 4S AD 2D | QC 3H KH KD 9H | Player 2 wins | two Aces two Kings Queen beats two Kings two Nines Jack |
| 8 | AH AC KH KC | AS AD KS KD | QC 3H TS 8H JD | No single winner | Both have straight Ace King Queen Jack Ten |