holdemhandranker

Texas Holdem Hand Ranker

This component ranks poker hands. For example, you can give it an array of hands and it resolves the winning one for you.

Installation

 
npm install holdemhandranker --save
 

Usage

HoldemRanker presents very simple API. The API has two methods:

HoldemRanker.valueOfHand(communityCards, holeCards)

Returns a representation of the value of given hand

@param {Array(5)} communityCards - Array of five cards on board

@param {Array(2)} holeCards - Array of two cards player is holding

@returns {Object} - Returns object containing info about the hand (see examples)

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HoldemRanker.getWinners(communityCards, arrayOfHoleCards)

Given an array of hands, returns the winning hands. If one hand is superior to all the rest,

return value is Array(1). Otherwise Array(x) where x is num of hands sharing the win.

@param {Array(5)} communityCards - Array of five cards on board

@param {Array(x)} arrayOfHoleCards - Array of hand objects of each player's hole cards

@returns {Array} - Returns Array containing winning hands (see examples)

• Note: hand object is simply a object with at least two keys: id and cards.

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Examples

Example: valueOfHand

 
var handRanker = require('holdemhandranker');
 
var handValue = handRanker.valueOfHand(
  ['Ah', 'Kh', 'Qh', '8h', '9h'], // Community cards
  ['Jh', 'Th'] // Player hole cards
);
 
expect(handValue).to.deep.equal({
    cards: ['Ah', 'Kh', 'Qh', 'Jh', 'Th'], // Cards used
    handType: 'royalFlush', // Hand rank
    kickers: [14, 13, 12, 11, 10] // Sorted array of card values
});
 
 

Example: getWinners (1)

 
var handRanker = require('holdemhandranker');
 
var winningHands = handRanker.getWinners(
  ['Kh', 'Kc', 'Qh', 'Qc', '3c'], // BOARD
  [
    // Hand object must have 'id' and 'cards' keys
    {id: 1, cards: ['4c', 'Ac']}, // P1 -> flush
    {id: 2, cards: ['5c', '6c']}, // P2 -> flush
    {id: 3, cards: ['Kd', '6s']}, // P3 -> full house
    {id: 4, cards: ['Qs', 'Qd']}, // P4 -> quads
  ]
);
 
// winningHands is now Array of hands that share the win.
// Using passed-in hand objects with 'id'-keys we can now check which player won.
 
// One winner
expect(winningHands.length).to.equal(1);
// P4 wins
expect(winningHands[0].id).to.equal(4);
 

Example: getWinners (2)

 
var handRanker = require('holdemhandranker');
 
var winningHands = handRanker.getWinners(
  ['3s', '5s', '7c', '8c', 'Jd'], // BOARD
  [
    {id: 1, cards: ['2d', '4h']}, // 8-high straight, loses
    {id: 2, cards: ['9s', 'Ts']}, // J-high straight, shares win
    {id: 3, cards: ['Tc', '9d']}, // J-high straight, shares win
    {id: 4, cards: ['6s', '9h']}, // 9-high straight, loses
  ]
);
 
// Two winners
expect(winningHands.length).to.equal(2);
// P2 and P3 win
var winnerIDs = _.map(winningHands, function(winningEval) {
    return winningEval.id;
})
expect(winnerIDs).to.deep.equal([2,3]);
 

Tests

Uses Mocha. Run:

 
npm test
 

Dependencies

Uses Lodash as only depedency.

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MIT License and so on

Todo:

1. Ranking hands from best -> worst (currently only returns best hand(s))
2. Async hand resolving?
3. Omaha hand resolving?