Texas Hold’em Simulator

Here is where the power of programming can be implemented. With python, you can simulate millions of hands, recording every time a flush is hit, a straight is hit, and so on for any hand and table combination. This enables the user to have total control over the cards without having to do any calculations. Below is the output of the previously discussed hand with 1 million hands simulated.

The code creates hands then shuffles the remaining deck. First, it distributes the cards to the number of selected players. Then, it places the remaining X cards on the table and records if each hand was hit. The Hand is then compared to the other players' hands to determine if the hand is a winning hand and that information is recorded. This process is repeated for n simulations. As the number of simulated hands increases so does the accuracy of the listed probabilities. As mentioned earlier, I created a Dash app where you can try it yourself here. Below is a screenshot of the app.

With the ability to simulate hands we can analyze many different situations very easily. Below is a graph showing the probability of winning with each pocket pair. Some variance is required because billions of combinations of hands are possible and only millions of simulations are run. Yet you can see a clear trend, unsurprising indicating that pocket two’s aren't nearly as good as pocket rockets.

1. How good are pocket aces?

2. How bad is the 7 2 offsuit?

3. How likely are you to hit the straight, the flush or the straight flush with 8 9 suited?

The code for everything associated with this project can be found on my Github. If you have any questions about this project please don’t hesitate to reach out. Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed it!

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