author: Kevin Waugh ([email protected]) date: April 7, 2013
This repository contains a C library for efficiently mapping poker hands to and from a tight set of indices. Poker hands are isomorphic with respect to permutations of the suits and ordering within a betting round. That is, AsKs, KdAd and KhAh all map to the same index preflop.
Please see:
K. Waugh, 2013. A Fast and Optimal Hand Isomorphism Algorithm. In the Second Computer Poker and Imperfect Information Symposium at AAAI
for more details, and src/hand_index.h for the API's description.