[Kde-games-devel] KPoker again: Rule question

[Michael Burger]

In order from worst to best the hands are:
High Card
2 Pair
3 of a kind
Straight
Flush
Full House
4 of a kind
Straight Flush
Royal Flush

Mike

On Saturday 21 August 2004 8:31 pm, Inge Wallin wrote:
> The following is a part of the code in KPoker (from
> Player::sortedResult()).  It tries to put a score on the hand of the
> player (lower score is better):
>
>  switch (result) {
>  case 1 :
>   newResult += 400; // one pair
>   break;
>    case 2 :
>   newResult += 350; // two pairs
>   break;
>    case 3 :
>   newResult += 300; // 3 of a kind
>   break;
>    case 4 :
>   newResult += 250; // full house
>   break;
>    case 6 :
>   newResult += 200; // 4 of a kind
>   break;
>    case 7 :
>   newResult = 150; // straight
>   break;
>    case 8 :
>   newResult += 100; // flush
>   break;
>    case 9 :
>   newResult += 50; // straight flush
>   break;
>
>
> Is this really correct?  I thought that 4 of a kind was better than both a
> straight or a flush and not the other way around which is indicated by the
> code above.
>
> My belief was that the order was:
> Straight flush, 4 of a kind, full house, flush, straight, 3 of a kind, two
> pairs, pair, best card.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
>  -Inge
>
>
>
> Inge Wallin               | Thus spake the master programmer:              
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>
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>
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