Problem 54149. Determine Poker Hand Winner

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Determine the poker hand winner from two hands of cards (each hand will contain the same number of cards between five and thirteen cards each). Output shoud be 0 - for tie, 1 - for hand1 winner, 2 - for for hand 2 winner. Card hands will be provided as a table like the following:
hand=table([9 3 10 7 13 12 11]',[3 2 3 4 3 3 3]');
hand.Properties.VariableNames={'value','suit'};
where card value is listed first: 2:10,jack,queen,king,ace == 1:13 and suits are listed second: clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades == 1:4. Note: (A 2 3 4 5) is considered a straight where the A acts low, therefore the kicker would be 5. 

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William on 17 Mar 2022

Our differences on the first 100 winds by each player are these:
1) hand #142 was awarded to player 1. But player 1 has nothing, while player 2 has 2 pair, so player 2 should have won.
2) hand #219 was awarded to player 1. But player 1 has a pair of 12's, while player 2 has 2 pair, so player 2 should have won.

David Hill on 17 Mar 2022

Both hand1{142} and hand1{219} are straights with the ace coming down to function low (A 2 3 4 5}. I should have noted that in the rules since some poker games do not allow that, but many also do.

William on 17 Mar 2022

Thanks David, that fixed it. I never actually played poker, so I had to look up the rules. There are a lot of varieties!

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