PokerRanker is a Windows application I wrote several months ago. Today I finally took the time to share it on my blog.

This program demonstrates a collection of essential C++/CLI classes for poker (Texas Hold ‘em) applications: Card, Deck, Hand and HandEvaluator. The latter, HandEvaluator, is based on the 7 card hand evaluator written in Java by the University of Alberta.

It’s not the fastest evaluator available, but it’s a pretty simple one and does the trick for most poker applications. If you really need a lightning fast hand evaluator, check out this blog post by Coding The Wheel for a hand evaluator roundup. You’ll need to do the conversion to C++/CLI by yourself though.

PokerRanker is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Click here to download the ZIP file containing all the project source files.