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When u say it evaluates hands, what exactly does it do? Solve for the equity value vs a random distribution, a specified distribution, tell you your hands rank, or does some sort of opponent/bidding modelling?

As far as whether I'm aware of faster software? Again it depends what it does. If you just have it look up equity values poker stove caps off at about 100,000 million games a second - but it "cheats" - because it looks them up in tables. If you specify part of the flop, then it slows to about 5-10 million games a second. And if you specify distribution vs. distribution analysis with multiple players it slows a to a crawl, it slows to a few thousand a second.

Because of that I've wrote a poker evaluator as well that is 10,000 faster than poker stove for distribution vs. distribution analysis and partial flop analysis, which i'm using as an engine to try write a bot that approximates Nash EQ play. It lets you specify distribtuions more precisely than pokerstove currently does - which honestly isn't much use to the average poker player. E.g. you can assign any decimal between [0,1] to the probability that when your opponent is dealt XY, he plays XY (or is on XY at that point in time). This allows you to capture the full range of possible distributions. The purpose of my program is to be interacted with by another program, not realy for some human to plug in by hand a bunch of values between [0,1] for each of the 1326 XY combinations.

Anyways, need to know what exactly your program does, if u want to know if something else does it faster. "Evaluation" is an ambiguous term [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]