First Thoughts

Okay, I have done some thinking over the game. Maybe we will make it a mobile app which can connect to other mobile apps via BlueTooth which makes it possible to play poker against other people while travelling. But maybe we will make it a Windows app sitting on your desktop. Maybe we will just be doing it both ;-) to illustrate the endless possibilities of layered architecture: most of all this website is here to serve you develop yourself into a good programmer and for me to make the transition from Visual Basic .net to c#.

I have been writing Visual Basic .net apps as a profession for the last five years, but I see the market more or less diverts to c#.

Now, what is a Poker game all about? To summarize: it is a card game, which consists of one deck of 52 shuffled cards. Each player receives two cards from the deck, issued by the dealer, which are not visible to the rest of the players. The two players to the left of the dealer have forced bets to start the action. After the cards have been dealt, the first betting round of a total of four starts. The players have the choice to either check, bet, call, raise or fold. When the first round finishes, all the bets are the same. One card will be burned and the first three community cards appear on the board. This is the flop which starts the second betting round. When the second betting round ends, the process repeats for the turn and the river, both one card from the deck. When only one player remains, this is the winner. When multiple players end the game, the showdown decides the winner. Both the players' cards and the community cards are combined to form the highest possible combination of five cards.