Re: What is wrong with Card Player\'s Odds Calculator?
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They do run a monte carlo, which means that the answer is only a resonable approximation, but not the absolute answer. You can get an exact answer (I have some code that will calculate it) but the estimate is good enough for most purposes.
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i am shocked and appalled. before i knew there was free software out there to do this, i wrote my own. i planned on writing it the straightforward way (enumerating all the hands with no optimization of any kind), then seeing how fast it ran and trying to optimize it in some terribly clever way. well, i wrote it and it took about 3 seconds on my laptop to compute the answer (slightly more for each additional hand contesting the pot). so i didn't bother to make it faster.
anyway, my point is, why on earth would somebody use monte carlo simulation when the exact solution is so cheap to calculate?
BTW, i have never used any of this free software, so i don't know exactly what it lets you do... is any of it open source?
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