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Poker Odds Calculator is a program that calculates the relative strengths of poker hands for a variety of popular poker games.

Mouse Controls
You can use the mouse to change the values of cards in a number of ways.

1. Left Click opens card selection window.
2. Command (Apple) Left Click on any card will send it back to the deck.
3. Option Click on a card in one of the players hands will send that card to the dead (folded) card pile.
4. Right Click or Control Left Click on any card slot will pop up a contextual menu which allows you to set the value of the card in the slot. Has the same functionality as the selection window.
5. Scroll Wheel over any card slot will cycle through all cards.

Key Controls
You can use the mouse to change the values of cards in a number of ways.

1. Command D deals next round.
2. Command C computes the odds for current hands.
3. Command X clears the board/returns all the cards to the deck.

Are those odds precise?
Recently a user emailed me with a question concerning the accuracy of the odds POC calculates. Here is his question and my response: Question

Things To Add

1. Add a "burnt card" pile. In seven-card stud, this will allow the computer to calculate the relative strengths of 2 or more hands taking into account that some face-up cards have already been folded by other players. DONE
2. Add five card draw. This is easy to do, but I want to wait until I have added a burnt card pile before I add this game. DONE
3. Add high hand Omaha. This involves a slightly more sophisticated bestHand() function than, say, Texas Hold'em because you must use 2 cards from your hand and 3 community cards. DONE
4. Add the game Raz and a generic lowHand() function. DONE
5. Add Omaha hi/low using elements of high hand Omaha and the generic lowHand() function. DONE
6. Allow the user to kill the current calculation. This requires multi-threading and a little finesse. A lot of people have been asking for this. DONE
7. Add smaller card size option so the window can fit in lower resolution screens.
8. Add snazzier card selection menu. DONE
9. Add expanded results info. Such as percentages of getting a flush or full house, etc.
10. Add a history feature that allows to view all the odds calculated in a session.
11. Optimize for speed
12. Add a Custom game feature which allows the user to create a custom game with unique rules. Hi/Low 8-card stud anyone? The custom game should allow the user to define these features for a game:
    1. Number of cards in a hand
    2. Which cards are face-down, face-up or community
    3. Hi/low, high hand or low hand wins. If hi/low or low hand wins, allow user to define which cards qualify as low.
    4. If there are cards you have to play, as in omaha where you must play 2 of the cards in your hand and 3 of the community cards.
    5. Wild cards???
13. Are there any feature that would make this program more useful for you? Contact me at alex.white@mac.com with suggestions.

Version History
POC 1.1: Added a selction window. Make the program much, much more user friendly when used with a one button mouse.
POC 1.0.3: Fixed some user interface bugs resulting from the last update. Added the kill calculation feature that people were asking for. Also moved the boxes from the top of the window to the left so there is more room for cards vertically in the window. Temporarily limited the number of players in the game to 5 so the window won't be larger than a 1024 x 768 screen.
POC 1.0.2: Fixed bug in registration system which prevented registration window from opening. Added key commands (see above). Removed annoying preferences tabbed view. Now preferences can be found in the application menu.
POC 1.0.1: The main window no longer disappears when you click leave the application
POC 1.0: Implement 3,4 and 5 on the list. Added registration system (sorry, not free anymore). Variable registration! though. You choose how valuable POC is and pay accordingly. Added Raz, Hi/Low Omaha, 7 card stud 8 or better though.
POC 0.3: Implemented items 1 and 2 on the to do list (added folded card pile and five card draw).
POC 0.2: Left mouse click returns a card to the deck. Right mouse click / control mouse click brings up contextual menu to change value of cards. Small bug fixes.
POC 0.1: Games: Texas Hold'em and Seven Card Stud. Scroll wheel changes value of cards.