CS 206 -- Assignment 2
3 Card Poker

This assignment will build on the deck shuffler to create a program that simulates some of the aspects of playing 3 card poker.  For this assignment, you will need to create at least the following classes with at least the following public methods:

• Card
• String getSuit() -- returns "spade", ...
  
• int getValue() -- returns 1..14
  
• int getSuitValue(), returns 1for diamond, 2 for clubs, 3 for hearts, 4 for spades
• Deck
• Card nextCard() -- returns the next card in the deck
• void reset() --  puts all the cards back on the deck
• void shuffle() -- permutes the order of the cards in the deck
• Dealer
• void addPlayer(Player) -- adds a player to the game (up to some preset max number of players)
• void Deal() -- reset the deck, shuffle, and deal cards to all players
• Player
• void getCard() -- get a card from the dealer
• void dropCards() -- forget about the cards in your hand, in preparation for the next game
• int evaluateHand() -- return the highest score from among the three cards being held.  As a scoring function, you could use:
• for 1 of a kind: 5*card.getValue()+card.getSuitValue()
• for 2 of a kind: 100+5*card.getValue()+card.getSuitValue()
• for 3 of a kind: 200+5*card.getValue()+card.getSuitValue()

Once you have all of this working, set up a system to get the probability of winning for each 3 card hand.  You can do this by playing a lot of games (e.g., 10000) and recording, for each hand, whether that hand was winner or loser in that game.  Note that the probability of a hand being a winner is a function both of its score and the number of players.

Hand in:

• the program as described on the course website
• a graph showing the probability of winning with a given hand for some specific number of players.

Due:
      Feb 15, 2005