wildpoker-package {wildpoker}

Best Hand Analysis for Poker Variants Including Wildcards

Description

Provides insight into how the best hand for a poker game changes based on the game dealt, players who stay in until the showdown and wildcards added to the base game. At this time the package does not support player tactics, so draw poker variants are not included. This package is provides insight into how the best hand for a poker game changes based on the following variables:

• Game Variant (which may include rules to split pot, wildcards that emerge in play, various dealing options)

• Player Number (a good hand changes significantly as more players are added to the game)

• Wildcards Added (additional wildcards incorporated beyond the basic game variant)

All hands are dealt completely and all players are assumed to stay in. Therefore the package makes no assumptions about betting strategy and largely because of this fact, poker variants involving drawing, discarding, passing or bidding on cards are not included at this time.

Details

The DESCRIPTION file:

Package:	wildpoker
Title:	Best Hand Analysis for Poker Variants Including Wildcards
Version:	1.1
Date:	2016-01-25
Author:	Bradley Shanrock-Solberg
Maintainer:	Bradley Shanrock-Solberg <[e-mail]>
Description:	Provides insight into how the best hand for a poker game changes based on the game dealt, players who stay in until the showdown and wildcards added to the base game. At this time the package does not support player tactics, so draw poker variants are not included.
License:	GPL-3
Depends:	R (>= 3.2), grDevices, graphics, utils

Index of help topics:

wildpoker-package       Best Hand Analysis for Poker Variants Including
                        Wildcards
wpgame                  Play a Wild Poker Variant Game
wpgraphs                Wild Poker Graphs for Best Hand Analysis
wpnotsupported          Poker Games not supported by the wildpoker
                        package
wprules                 Display Wild Poker Variant Game Rules
wpstats                 Deal Many Hands of a Wild Poker Variant Game
wpsupportedgames        Poker Games Supported by the wildpoker package

This package is organized into three specfic functions and two data elements

• wpgame - Play a poker variant, see who won, game-level stats

• wprules - Display rules of a poker variant

• wpstats - Deal many games of a poker variant, capture statistics

• wpgraphs - Plot data from wpstats output into useful graphs

• wpsupportedgames - lists all supported games & basic description of each

• wpnotsupported - lists unsupported games & reason they are not yet included

For most purposes calling wpgraphs is sufficient - results have been precalculated for each supported game with from zero to 8 additional wildcards and from 2 to 8 players (or less, if a 52 card deck can not deal 8 hands), using 1000 hands dealt and a random number seed of 52.

Author(s)

Bradley Shanrock-Solberg Maintainer: Bradley Shanrock-Solberg [e-mail]

References

Shanrock-Solberg, B (2015) Monte Carlo Methods for Decision Support (or Winning More at Dealer's Choice Poker)