Poker Hand XML

[MuppetBingo]

Here's another pass,

* put <antes> block back in
* made the cards-block more explicit, with a <card> per card (as OrcaDK suggested)
* removed playerId and mucked attributes on <cards>, and moved them to <hand>
* made new <deal> block with open-attribute and playerId-attribute, to make showdown <cards> more consistent. The name deal is a bit awkward, but it expresses that one or more cards has been handed to a player or the community, and that the cards are either open or closed.

Version 1.3
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&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
&lt;pokerhand id="11082740019" timestamp="2007-07-31 11:21:43"&gt;
&lt;context&gt;
&lt;location online="true"&gt;
&lt;room name="Absolute Poker"/&gt;
&lt;table id="562102981" name="Denmark Dr." seats="10"/&gt;
&lt;/location&gt;
&lt;!-- betting-types=nolimit, potlimit or limit --&gt;
&lt;game type="texasholdem" format="tournament" bettingtype="nolimit" currency="USD"&gt;
&lt;!-- only use either tournament or cashgame tag --&gt;
&lt;tournament buyin="10" vig="1" id="56210298"/&gt;
&lt;!-- we need both stakes and max buyin I guess? --&gt;
&lt;cashgame maxbuyin="400" bigblind="2"/&gt;
&lt;/game&gt;
&lt;players&gt;
&lt;!-- active is required, every active player takes part in this hand, ie. pays ante and recieves cards --&gt;
&lt;player id="MuppetBingo" stack="1500" seat="1" active="true"/&gt;
&lt;player id="KermitIsGreen" stack="1500" seat="4" active="true"/&gt;
&lt;player id="Animal" stack="1500" seat="5" active="true"/&gt;
&lt;/players&gt;
&lt;/context&gt;
&lt;rounds&gt;
&lt;!-- antes is optional --&gt;
&lt;antes&gt;
&lt;ante playerId="MuppetBingo" amount="2"/&gt;
&lt;ante playerId="KermitIsGreen" amount="2"/&gt;
&lt;ante playerId="Animal" amount="2"/&gt;
&lt;/antes&gt;
&lt;!-- a round is a deal of cards followed by a sequence of player actions --&gt;
&lt;!-- possible round types are "preflop", "flop","turn", "river" --&gt;
&lt;round id="preflop"&gt;
&lt;!-- in 7 card stud deal will be a sequence of &lt;cards&gt; for each player, in texas-style games it will only contain 1 element --&gt;
&lt;deals&gt;
&lt;!-- open means whether the cards are visible to all. In stud there can be open non-community cards --&gt;
&lt;deal playerId="MuppetBingo" open="false"&gt;
&lt;cards&gt;
&lt;card value="a" suit="c"/&gt;
&lt;card value="a" suit="d"/&gt;
&lt;/cards&gt;
&lt;/deal&gt;
&lt;/deals&gt;
&lt;!-- actions can be &lt;bet&gt; &lt;call&gt; , &lt;fold&gt; --&gt;
&lt;actions&gt;
&lt;!-- amount is optional, --&gt;
&lt;!-- forced is optional and if omitted, will default to "false" --&gt;
&lt;!-- possible types=bet, call, check or fold. --&gt;
&lt;!-- name is optional, possible values = straddle, smallblind and bigblind --&gt;
&lt;action type="bet" playerId="MuppetBingo" forced="true" name="smallblind" amount="10"/&gt;
&lt;action type="bet" playerId="KermitIsGreen" forced="true" name="bigblind" amount="20"/&gt;
&lt;action type="bet" playerId="Animal" forced="false" name="straddle" amount="40"/&gt;
&lt;action type="bet" playerId="MuppetBingo" amount="10"/&gt;
&lt;action type="bet" playerId="KermitIsGreen" amount="30"/&gt;
&lt;action type="call" playerId="Animal" amount="30"/&gt;
&lt;action type="call" playerId="MuppetBIngo" amount="20"/&gt;
&lt;/actions&gt;
&lt;/round&gt;
&lt;round id="flop"&gt;
&lt;deals&gt;
&lt;!-- playerId is optional, and if not present it means the cards are community cards --&gt;
&lt;deal open="true"&gt;
&lt;cards&gt;
&lt;card value="7" suit="c"/&gt;
&lt;card value="2" suit="s"/&gt;
&lt;card value="q" suit="h"/&gt;
&lt;/cards&gt;
&lt;/deal&gt;
&lt;/deals&gt;
&lt;actions&gt;
&lt;action type="check" playerId="MuppetBingo"/&gt;
&lt;action type="bet" playerId="KermitIsGreen" amount="50"/&gt;
&lt;action type="fold" playerId="Animal"/&gt;
&lt;action type="call" playerId="MuppetBIngo" amount="50"/&gt;
&lt;/actions&gt;
&lt;/round&gt;
&lt;round id="turn"&gt;
&lt;deals&gt;
&lt;deal open="true"&gt;
&lt;cards&gt;
&lt;card value="9" suit="h"/&gt;
&lt;/cards&gt;
&lt;/deal&gt;
&lt;/deals&gt;
&lt;actions&gt;
&lt;action type="check" playerId="MuppetBingo"/&gt;
&lt;action type="check" playerId="KermitIsGreen"/&gt;
&lt;/actions&gt;
&lt;/round&gt;
&lt;round id="river"&gt;
&lt;deals&gt;
&lt;deal open="true"&gt;
&lt;cards&gt;
&lt;card value="k" suit="c"/&gt;
&lt;/cards&gt;
&lt;/deal&gt;
&lt;/deals&gt;
&lt;actions&gt;
&lt;action type="check" playerId="MuppetBingo"/&gt;
&lt;action type="check" playerId="KermitIsGreen"/&gt;
&lt;/actions&gt;
&lt;/round&gt;
&lt;/rounds&gt;
&lt;result&gt;
&lt;hands&gt;
&lt;!-- mucked attribute is optional and has default value="false", cards is optional --&gt;
&lt;hand playerId="MuppetBingo" mucked="false"&gt;
&lt;cards&gt;
&lt;card value="a" suit="c"/&gt;
&lt;card value="a" suit="d"/&gt;
&lt;/cards&gt;
&lt;/hand&gt;
&lt;hand playerId="KermitIsGreen" mucked="false"&gt;
&lt;cards&gt;
&lt;card value="a" suit="s"/&gt;
&lt;card value="k" suit="s"/&gt;
&lt;/cards&gt;
&lt;/hand&gt;
&lt;hand playerId="Animal" mucked="true"/&gt;
&lt;/hands&gt;
&lt;!-- rake is optional --&gt;
&lt;pots value="278.5" rake="1.5"&gt;
&lt;pot number="1" value="278.5"&gt;
&lt;winners&gt;
&lt;!-- for split pots, this will contain multiple winners --&gt;
&lt;winner playerId="MuppetBingo" amount="278.5"&gt;
&lt;hand&gt;
&lt;cards&gt;
&lt;card value="a" suit="c"/&gt;
&lt;card value="a" suit="d"/&gt;
&lt;card value="q" suit="h"/&gt;
&lt;card value="k" suit="c"/&gt;
&lt;card value="9" suit="h"/&gt;
&lt;/cards&gt;
&lt;/hand&gt;
&lt;/winner&gt;
&lt;/winners&gt;
&lt;/pot&gt;
&lt;/pots&gt;
&lt;/result&gt;
&lt;/pokerhand&gt;
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