I've just finised writing a 5 card hand evaluator (I'm avoding the 'pkr'
word since the spam filter won't let me post when I use that word),
using the algorithm found: http://www.suffecool.net/*/evaluator.html (<<
replace * with the 'pkr' word, same in the next link >>).

You can download it from here:
http://www.btinternet.com/~douglas.marsh/*.zip

Use the 'eval' method. For the purposes of this code a card is defined
as an array where element [0] is a number 0..12 (0 = two, 1 = three ...
11 = king, 12 = ace) and element [1] is a number 0..2 (0 = clubs, 1 =
diamonds, 2 = hearts, 3 = spades).

The lower the value returned, the higher-ranking the hand. Enjoy.

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