wprules: Display Wild Poker Variant Game Rules

In wildpoker: Best Hand Analysis for Poker Variants Including Wildcards

Description

This function will Print the rules of a single Wild Poker game variant

Usage

wprules(ngame)

Arguments

ngame

This is any supported game, such as "Seven Card Stud" or "Baseball". See wpsupportedgames.

Details

This program displays values from the wpsupportedgames data frame with formatting

Value

Prints the following output. Note that max players is capped at 8, even if a deck can support more.

GAME :	ngame parameter (game type and max players in parentheses)
DEAL :	cards dealt expressed as hole card, up card or community card - eg Seven Card Stud is "2 hole 4 up 1 hole"
BETS :	who leads, ante vs blind bid, betting rounds by card number - eg Seven Card Stud is "ante & high up leads - cards 3 4 5 6 7"
WILD :	any wildcards intrinsic to the game - eg Baseball is "3s and 9s" indicating that all 3 and 9 cards are wild
MAIN :	Victory conditions for main hand - eg "High - Pair or better to win"
SPLIT:	Victory conditions for split hand - eg "None" for no split hand, can be quite odd like "Sum of Spots in 7 card hand"
NOTES:	NOTES: any other information about the game or common variants - eg in Baseball you sometimes have to pay for 3s, 4s and 9s

Author(s)

Maintainer: Bradley Shanrock-Solberg [e-mail]

References

poker.com has an excellent reference on game variants which was the primary source for games rules not encountered in my own play.

See Also

wpsupportedgames

Examples

set.seed(52)
wprules("Iron Cross Last Wild")
wprules("Seven Stud Hi-Lo")
wprules("Low Chicago")

wildpoker documentation built on May 2, 2019, 7:33 a.m.