Poker More Bit Representations Card Bit MaskWe already have one representation of cards using bit indices but there is another representation we could use that would be easier to work with when evaluating poker hands. A long can be split into 4 × 16 bit sections, each of which
Poker Card Combinations Before we can start evaluating five card poker hands we actually need to get some five card poker hands. So we need some code to produce five card hand combinations from a full deck of cards. Combinations can be built recursively. Start with an
Poker A Set of Cards Many years ago I worked at a company that used a C library for evaluating poker hands. Never really understood how it worked; it used a lot of hard to read bit twiddling. A few years back I decided to see if I could