Evaluate poker hands in R

poker.R

## Poker.R
## Evaluate poker hands
##
## by: Christopher Bare
############################################################

## define suits and ranks
suits <- c('c','d','h','s')
ranks <- c(2:10,"J","K","Q","A")
suit_names <- c(c="clubs", d="diamonds", h="hearts", s="spades")
rank_names <- c(2:10, "Jack", "Queen", "King", "Ace")

new.deck <- function() {
  deck <- list()
  i <- 1
  for (r in 2:14) {
    for (s in suits) {
      deck[[i]] <- list(rank=r, suit=s)
      class(deck[[i]]) <- 'card'
      i <- i + 1
    }
  }
  class(deck) <- 'cardList'
  return(deck)
}

deal <- function(deck,n) {
  hand <- sample(deck,n)
  hand <- hand[order(rank(hand),suit(hand), decreasing=TRUE)]
  class(hand) <- "cardList"
  return(hand)
}

is.card <- function(x) {
  return(class(x)=='card')
}

suit <- function(c) {
  if (is.card(c))
    c$suit
  else if (is.list(c))
    sapply(c, suit)
}

rank <- function(c) {
  if (is.card(c))
    c$rank
  else if (is.list(c))
    sapply(c, rank)
}

toString.rank <- function(rank, short=TRUE, plural=FALSE) {
  if (short)
    result <- ranks[rank-1]
  else
    result <- rank_names[rank-1]
  if (plural)
    result <- paste(result,"s",sep="")
  return(result)
}

as.rank <- function(s) {
  sapply(s, function(x) which(ranks==toupper(x))) + 1
}

parse_card <- function(string) {
  card_strings <- strsplit(string,"\\s+")[[1]]
  
  # extract rank and suit from each card into parallel vectors
  card_ranks <- as.rank(sub(
    pattern="(\\d+|[AKQJ])[cdhs]",
    replacement="\\1",
    card_strings, ignore.case=TRUE))
  card_suits <- sub(
    pattern="(\\d+|[AKQJ])([cdhs])",
    replacement="\\2",
    card_strings, ignore.case=TRUE)
  
  # zip together ranks and suits into cards
  cards <- mapply(function(r,s) {
    card <- list(rank=r,suit=s)
    class(card) <- "card"
    card
  }, card_ranks, card_suits, SIMPLIFY=FALSE)
  class(cards) <- "cardList"
  return(cards)
}

toString.card <- function(card) {
  paste(toString.rank(rank(card)), suit(card), sep="")
}

toString.cardList <- function(cards) {
  paste(toString.card(cards), collapse=" ")
}

toString.pokerHandEvaluation <- function(ev) {
  ev$string
}

print.cardList <- function(cards) {
  cat("cards:\n")
  print(toString.cardList(cards))
}

print.card <- function(card) {
  print(toString.card(card))
}

print.pokerHandEvaluation <- function(ev) {
  print(ev$string)
}

evaluate.hand <- function(hand) {
  runs <- table(rank(hand))
  runs <- runs[order(runs, names(runs), decreasing=TRUE)]
  run.ranks <- as.numeric(names(runs))
  
  flush.suit <- unique(suit(hand))
  is.flush <- (length(flush.suit) == 1)
  
  highest.rank <- max(rank(hand))
  lowest.rank <- min(rank(hand))
  is.straight <- all(sort(rank(hand))==seq(lowest.rank, lowest.rank+4, 1))

  ev <-list(runs=runs,
            run.ranks=run.ranks,
            flush.suit=flush.suit,
            is.flush=is.flush,
            highest.rank=highest.rank,
            lowest.rank=lowest.rank,
            is.straight=is.straight)
  class(ev) <- "pokerHandEvaluation"
  
  ## straight flush
  if (is.straight && is.flush) {
    ev$type <- "Straight flush"
    if (lowest.rank==10)
      ev$string <- paste("Royal flush in", suit_names[flush.suit])
    else
      ev$string <- paste("Straight flush",
                    toString.rank(highest.rank), "high",
                    "in", suit_names[flush.suit])
  }

  ## four of a kind
  else if (length(runs)==2 && all(runs==c(4,1))) {
    ev$type <- "Four of a kind"
    ev$string <- paste("4", toString.rank(run.ranks[1], plural=T))
  }
  
  ## full house
  else if (length(runs)==2 && all(runs==c(3,2))) {
    ev$type <- "Full house"
    ev$string <- paste("Full house",
                  toString.rank(run.ranks[1], plural=T), "and",
                  toString.rank(run.ranks[2], plural=T))
  }
  
  ## flush
  else if (is.flush) {
    ev$type <- "Flush"
    ev$string <- paste("Flush in", suit_names[flush.suit])
  }

  ## straight
  else if (is.straight) {
    ev$type <- "Straight"
    ev$string <- paste("Straight", toString.rank(highest.rank), "high")
  }
  
  ## three of a kind
  else if (length(runs)==3 && all(runs==c(3,1,1))) {
    ev$type <- "Three of a kind"
    ev$string <- paste("3", toString.rank(run.ranks[1], plural=T))
  }
  
  ## two pairs
  else if (length(runs)==3 && all(runs==c(2,2,1))) {
    ev$type <- "Two pairs"
    ev$string <- paste("two pairs",
                  toString.rank(run.ranks[1], plural=T), "and",
                  toString.rank(run.ranks[2], plural=T))
  }
  
  ## pair
  else if (length(runs)==4 && all(runs==c(2,1,1,1))) {
    ev$type <- "Pair"
    ev$string <- paste("pair of", toString.rank(run.ranks[1], plural=T))
  }
  
  else {
    ev$type <- "Nothing"
    ev$string <- paste("Nothing:", toString(hand))
  }
  
  return(ev)
}

## deal a bunch of hands and evaluate them
count.hands <- function(n=10) {
  d <- new.deck()
  counts <- c(`Straight flush`=0,
                    `Four of a kind`=0,
                    `Full house`=0,
                    `Flush`=0,
                    `Straight`=0,
                    `Three of a kind`=0,
                    `Two pairs`=0,
                    `Pair`=0,
                    `Nothing`=0)
  for (i in 1:n) {
    hand <- deal(d,5)
    ev <- evaluate.hand(hand)
    counts[[ev$type]] <- counts[[ev$type]] + 1
    #print(paste(toString(hand), " - ", ev$string))
  }
  return(counts)
}

poker_test_hands.R

## different types of poker hands
hand_rf <- parse_card("Ks As 10s Qs Js")
hand_sf <- parse_card("4h 5h 6h 7h 8h")
hand_4 <- parse_card("4h 4d 7s 4s 4c")
hand_fh <- parse_card("Kh Js Ks Kd Jc")
hand_s <- parse_card("5h 7d 9s 6c 8")
hand_f <- parse_card("Kd 9d 8d 3d 6d")
hand_3 <- parse_card("Kd 7s 6s Kh Ks")
hand_2p <- parse_card("8h 9c 8d Kc 9h")
hand_2 <- parse_card("8h 3d 9c Qs 9h")
hand_nothing <- parse_card("3c 7d 10h Js Qh")

evaluate.hand(hand_nothing)
evaluate.hand(hand_2)
evaluate.hand(hand_2p)
evaluate.hand(hand_3)
evaluate.hand(hand_s)
evaluate.hand(hand_f)
evaluate.hand(hand_fh)
evaluate.hand(hand_4)
evaluate.hand(hand_sf)
evaluate.hand(hand_rf)

count.hands(1000)

Thanks for posting this! R newb here. I'm struggling to figure out how to apply the parse card function on a data frame of thousands of hands. I'm importing aggregate report full hand/board data from Pio. But I can only seem to use parse_card and evaluate.hand on the first row in the list or dataframe.

hand_list <- read_csv("C:/R/report_OOP_Full_SB_RFI.csv")

df_hand_list <- data.frame(hand_list)

lst1=list()  

for(i in 1:ncol(df_hand_list)) {      
  lst1[[i]] <- df_hand_list[ , i]    
}

names(lst1)=colnames(df_hand_list)  

df_list1 <- data.frame(lst1)

lapply_df_list1_parsecard <- (lapply(df_list1, parse_card))

evaluate.hand(lapply_df_list1_parsecard)

This correctly categorizes hand strength for this one flop/hand, but any thoughts on how apply this over many hands?

Thanks for posting this! R newb here. I'm struggling to figure out how to apply the parse card function on a data frame of thousands of hands. I'm importing aggregate report full hand/board data from Pio. But I can only seem to use parse_card and evaluate.hand on the first row in the list or dataframe.

hand_list <- read_csv("C:/R/report_OOP_Full_SB_RFI.csv")

df_hand_list <- data.frame(hand_list)

lst1=list()  

for(i in 1:ncol(df_hand_list)) {      
  lst1[[i]] <- df_hand_list[ , i]    
}

names(lst1)=colnames(df_hand_list)  

df_list1 <- data.frame(lst1)

lapply_df_list1_parsecard <- (lapply(df_list1, parse_card))

evaluate.hand(lapply_df_list1_parsecard)

This correctly categorizes hand strength for this one flop/hand, but any thoughts on how apply this over many hands?

It looks like you're trying to apply the parse_card and evaluate.hand functions to all rows of a data frame containing thousands of hands from a Pio report. To do this effectively, you can iterate over each row of your data frame, apply the parsing and evaluation functions, and store the results in a new column. Here's a more streamlined approach using dplyr and purrr:
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