Kata

A famous casino is suddenly faced with a sharp decline of their revenues. They decide to offer Texas hold'em also online. Can you help them by writing an algorithm that can rank poker hands?

Task

Create a poker hand that has a method to compare itself to another poker hand:

Result PokerHand.CompareWith(PokerHand hand);

PokerHand.compareWith: hand: PokerHand -> Result

Result PokerHand.compareWith(PokerHand hand);

PokerHand.prototype.compareWith = function(hand){...};

Result compare (Hand* player, Hand* opponent);

Result compare (const PokerHand &player, const PokerHand &opponent);

compare_with(self, other_hand)

compare_with(other_hand)

PokerHand.compare(String player, String opponent)

A poker hand has a constructor that accepts a string containing 5 cards:

PokerHand hand = new PokerHand("KS 2H 5C JD TD");

let hand = PokerHand("KS 2H 5C JD TD")

PokerHand hand = new PokerHand("KS 2H 5C JD TD");

var hand = new PokerHand("KS 2H 5C JD TD");

Hand *hand = PokerHand ("KS 2H 5C JD TD");

PokerHand hand ("KS 2H 5C JD TD");

PokerHand("KS 2H 5C JD TD")

PokerHand.new("KS 2H 5C JD TD")

# no constructor in elixir, pass the string into the compare
"KS 2H 5C JD TD"

The characteristics of the string of cards are:

• Each card consists of two characters, where
• The first character is the value of the card: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T(en), J(ack), Q(ueen), K(ing), A(ce)
• The second character represents the suit: S(pades), H(earts), D(iamonds), C(lubs)
• A space is used as card separator between cards

The result of your poker hand compare can be one of these 3 options:

public enum Result 
{ 
    Win, 
    Loss, 
    Tie 
}

type Result =
| Win = 0 
| Loss = 1
| Tie = 2

public enum Result
{
    WIN,
    LOSS,
    TIE
}

var Result = 
{
    "win": 1,
    "loss": 2,
    "tie": 3
}

typedef enum { Win, Loss, Tie } Result;

enum class Result { Win, Loss, Tie };

[ "Win", "Tie", "Loss" ]

[ "Win", "Tie", "Loss" ]

@result %{win: 1, loss: 2, tie: 3}

Notes

• Apply the Texas Hold'em rules for ranking the cards.
• Low aces are valid in this kata.
• There is no ranking for the suits.

If you finished this kata, you might want to continue with Sortable Poker Hands