Beat The Texan - Minor UI changes and progress info

Hi

I realized it has been a while since I last posted so I thought I would put up some info about how I have been getting on.

Here is the latest screen shot from Beat The Texan:


The text is now white making it more visible and the your best hand is displayed under your cards.  I have a fairly poor single pair and went on to lose to The Texan's flush (it turned out he wasn't bluffing).

The Texan has been progressing well and hopefully will be available to play online by early to mid-July.  An enhanced version will be made for Android at some point after that.

The project website www.paulspokerproject.co.uk has been updated and now has details of some of the books/papers I have read that have influenced the development of The Texan.

If you have any questions about The Texan feel free to contact me at paul@paulspokerproject.co.uk.

CUDA for poker hand evaluation

Further to my discussion on CUDA in my previous post, it seems that some work has been done before in using CUDA for hand evaluation.
More information can be found here:
http://www.ii.metu.edu.tr/coursewebsites/quda/cuda_zone/report.htm

In this report, CUDA was used to compare all possible hand combinations providing performance improvements.  However, in my work I am using a large random sample of hands to provide a reasonably accurate, but not exact, result.  If anything, using a sample should enable a computer poker player to play more like a human since humans often don't know the exact strength of their hand, using a upper and lower bound instead.