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Maybe a silly question, but: does anyone know a good guide to the rules of poker? I kind of know them, but I just had what I thought was a good hand, and I wound up losing to a hand that I didn't see anything in, and now I'm not sure whether it was a bug or whether I just don't know how this kind of poker works...

While they're notably playing a variant, this seems to be a fairly decent guide to the rules based on a cursory glance: https://www.pokernews.com/strategy/5-card-draw-rules-how-to-play-five-card-draw-...

And I used this as reference while I was initially programming the solver: https://www.cardplayer.com/rules-of-poker/hand-rankings

It's a distinct possibility that there's something not quite right going on with how the hand evaluator is deciding on hand quality, and I'm hoping to thoroughly investigate that when I start rewriting the code for the content patch in early December.

Thank you!

OK yep according to this I had a straight, and I thought she had a random hand, but now I'm wondering if it might have been a flush (I didn't realise that was a thing on its own, I thought it could only improve straights). I'll come back if I spot anything in the future!

Okay, thanks! It's be extra helpful if you could take a screenshot of any hands that look wrong and send them along! Makes it way easier to figure out where to look for the bug in the hand solver