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Originally Posted by sorrow
I'd love to hear speculation There don't appear to be that many useful schemes outside of holdem, basically because of the number of starting hand combinations.
Well, 1 large classification that should be easy to implement is simply how many cards you draw.
Further classication can completely ignore the discards and still be useful.
A good range-defining scheme I have seen is: w=(3|4|5); x= a card between the previous and next card. Examples:
87x3 would match 8763, 8743
7ww2 would match 7542, 7432, etc
86x would match 865, 864, 863, 862
So some good starting hands to have info on would be:
2w
26
27
28
7w2
8w2
86w
862
87w
872
7ww
8ww
76w
762
7ww2
76w2
7www
76ww
86w2
86ww
87w2
87ww
I didn't use 'x' in any of those I realized, kinda typing my thoughts here. That list isn't complete or very organized but it presents a scheme where similar value hands can be usefully grouped. More later.