7 Card Poker Hand Evaluator

Question

Does anyone know a fast algorithm for evaluating 7 card poker hands? Something which is more efficient than simply brute-force checking a every 21 5-card combination of hands fr

Answer 1

May I recommend https://github.com/chenosaurus/poker-evaluator/

It is written in JavaScript and uses a 128 MB HandRanks.dat file.

The code is just a few lines and very easy to port to any other language.