This theory would dovetail nicely into the philosophy that we often
apply to Razz hand evaluation when everyone has paired twice (i.e., lowest
pair wins).
I think you've discovered correctly the reason the hand evaluation
library does what it does (it must have a rule that says: If no player can make a five card hand with no pairs in it, then find the hand with the lowest pair in it and declare that the winner. So, we know what it's doing, but is that right? This remains the question.
I should point out that if we step back a moment to 2-7 lowball games,
where straights and flushes do count against you, I think everyone would
argue the rule stated above would make no sense. I guess the question is:
How much does the order of lowball hands change when you remove
straights and flushes from the equation? Do you remove two pair and full
houses as well, and make up an entirely new hierarchy for paired and
tripped hands?
Of course, only programmers would ask this question, because the number
of times in real life where two hands of this nature get to show down are
so statically low that it could easily be the case that this has
never happened in any Razz game that humans ever played.
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Date: 2006-12-21 20:56 (UTC)This theory would dovetail nicely into the philosophy that we often apply to Razz hand evaluation when everyone has paired twice (i.e., lowest pair wins).
I think you've discovered correctly the reason the hand evaluation library does what it does (it must have a rule that says: . So, we know what it's doing, but is that right? This remains the question.
I should point out that if we step back a moment to 2-7 lowball games, where straights and flushes do count against you, I think everyone would argue the rule stated above would make no sense. I guess the question is:
Of course, only programmers would ask this question, because the number of times in real life where two hands of this nature get to show down are so statically low that it could easily be the case that this has never happened in any Razz game that humans ever played.