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You are dealt five cards from a single deck. Implement a strategy for Jacks or Better Video Poker that has an expected revenue of at least 99.46%. Output the cards you want to hold.

The shortest code wins.

You are not required to implement the suggested strategy. Optimum play is also acceptable.

Input is read from standard input, output is written to standard output. Cards are identified as pairs of number (2,...,9,T,J,Q,K,A) and suit (S,H,D,C - spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs): 3C - three of clubs, QH - queen of hearts.

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Examples:

$ ./jacks                               |
3C JC 5C QC 3H                          |<< input
3C 3H                                   |<< output
$ ./jacks                               |
3C 4C 5C 6C 7C                          |<< input
3C 4C 5C 6C 7C                          |<< output
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Is this a single deck? It simplifies the logic because, for example, if a hand is 4 to a flush it can't have a 3 of a kind. \$\endgroup\$
    – Keith Randall
    Jun 30, 2011 at 4:33
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Keith: Single deck. \$\endgroup\$
    – Alexandru
    Jun 30, 2011 at 6:53
  • \$\begingroup\$ Can we use T instead of 10, it would simplify things greatly! \$\endgroup\$
    – mellamokb
    Jun 30, 2011 at 14:29
  • \$\begingroup\$ @mellamokb: My bad. Yes. I'm updating now. \$\endgroup\$
    – Alexandru
    Jun 30, 2011 at 14:56

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I did it!!!

import java.io.*;
// 427 lines 200
public class Base {

    static char suit (String tokens) {  return  tokens.charAt (1); }
    public static char num (String tokens) { return tokens.charAt (0);}

    public static void checkPair (String [] tokens)
    {
        for (int a = 0; a < 4; ++a)
        for (int b = a+1; b < 5; ++b) 
            if (num (tokens [a]) == num (tokens [b]))
                System.out.print (tokens [a] + " " + tokens [b]);
    }

    public static void checkThreeKind (String [] tokens)
    {
        for (int a = 0; a < 3; ++a)
            if (num (tokens [a]) == num (tokens [a+1]))
                for (int b = 2; b < 5; ++b) 
                    if (num (tokens [a]) == num (tokens [b]))
                        System.out.print (tokens [a] + " " + tokens [a+1] + " " + tokens [b]);
    }

    static void checkTwoPair (String [] tokens)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
        for (int j = 1; j < 5; j++)
            //First Increment is pair 1 2, followed by 1 3, 1 4, and 1, 5 then 2 3, 2 4, 2 5, then 3 4, 3 5 then 4 5
            if (num (tokens [i]) == num (tokens [j]))
                for (int y = 0; y <= 4; y++)
                    for (int x = 1; x <= 4; x++)
                        if ((i != y) && (j != x) && (y != x) && (i != j))
                            if (num (tokens [y]) == num (tokens [x]))
                                if ((tokens [i] != tokens [j]) && (tokens [i] != tokens [y]) && (tokens [j] != tokens [y]) &&
                                        (tokens [i] != tokens [x]) && (tokens [j] != tokens [x]) && (tokens [y] != tokens [x]))
                                    eblock (tokens);
    }

    static void checkHighFlush (String [] tokens)
    {
        if (suit (tokens [0]) == suit (tokens [1]) &&
            suit (tokens [0]) == suit (tokens [2]) && 
            suit (tokens [0]) == suit (tokens [3]) && 
            suit (tokens [0]) == suit (tokens [4]))
        {
            String outputString = "";
            for (int i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++)
                outputString  += tokens [i] + " ";
            System.out.println (outputString);
            System.exit (0);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++)
            for (int j= 1; j<= 4; j++)
                //First Increment is pair 1 2, followed by 1 3, 1 4, and 1, 5 then 2 3, 2 4, 2 5, then 3 4, 3 5 then 4 5
                if (suit (tokens [i]) == suit (tokens [j]))
                    for (int y = 0; y <= 4; y++)
                        for (int x = 1; x <= 4; x++)
                            if ((i != y) && (j != x) && (y != x) && (i != j))
                            {
                                if (suit (tokens [i]) == suit (tokens [x]) &&
                                        suit (tokens [i]) == suit (tokens [y]))
                                {
                                    if ((tokens [i] != tokens [j]) && (tokens [i] != tokens [y]) && (tokens [j] != tokens [y]) &&
                                            (tokens [i] != tokens [x]) && (tokens [j] != tokens [x]) && (tokens [y] != tokens [x]))
                                        eblock (tokens);
                                }
                            }
    }

     static void checkFourKind (String [] tokens)
     {
        if (num (tokens [0]) == num (tokens [1]))
        {
            if (num (tokens [0]) == num (tokens [2])) 
                if (num (tokens [0]) == num (tokens [3]) || num (tokens [0]) == num (tokens [4]))
                    eblock (tokens);
            if (num (tokens [0]) == num (tokens [3]))
                if (num (tokens [0]) == num (tokens [4]))
                    eblock (tokens);
        }
        if (num (tokens [1]) == num (tokens [2]))
            if (num (tokens [1]) == num (tokens [3])) 
                if (num (tokens [1]) == num (tokens [4])) 
                    eblock (tokens);
    }

    static void checkStraight (String [] tokens)
    {
        int [] ints = new int [5];
        for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++)
        {   
            switch (num (tokens [i]))        {
            case 'T': ints [i] = 10;
            case 'J': ints [i] = 11;
            case 'Q': ints [i] = 12;
            case 'K': ints [i] = 13;
            case 'A': ints [i] = 14;
            default:  ints [i] = num (tokens [i]) - '0';
        }
        }
        for (int i = 0; i <= 3; i++)
        for (int j= 1; j<= 4; j++)
            //First Increment is pair 1 2, followed by 1 3, 1 4, and 1, 5 then 2 3, 2 4, 2 5, then 3 4, 3 5 then 4 5
            if ((ints [i]+1) == ints [i+1])
                for (int y = 0; y <= 4; y++)
                    for (int x = 1; x <= 4; x++)
                        if ((i != y) && (j != x) && (y != x) && (i != j))
                        {
                            if (ints[i] + 2 == ints[y] && ints[i] + 3 == ints [x])
                            {
                                if ((tokens [i] != tokens [j]) && (tokens [i] != tokens [y]) && (tokens [j] != tokens [y]) &&
                                        (tokens [i] != tokens [x]) && (tokens [j] != tokens [x]) && (tokens [y] != tokens [x]))
                                {
                                    for (int a : new int[] {i, j, y, x})
                                        System.out.print (tokens [a] + " ");    
                                    System.out.println ();
                                    System.exit (0);
                                }
                            }
                            java.util.Arrays.sort (ints);
                            if (( (ints [i]+1 == ints [j]) && (ints [i]+3 == ints [y]) && (ints [i]+4 == ints [x])))
                            {
                                for (int a : new int[] {i, j, y, x})
                                    System.out.print (tokens [a] + " ");    
                                System.out.println ();
                                System.exit (0);
                            }
                        }
    }

    static void checkHighCard (String [] tokens)
    {
        int [] ints = new int [5];
        for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++)
        {   
            switch (num (tokens [i]))        {
            case 'T': ints [i] = 10;
            case 'J': ints [i] = 11;
            case 'Q': ints [i] = 12;
            case 'K': ints [i] = 13;
            case 'A': ints [i] = 14;
            default:  ints [i] = num (tokens [i]) - '0';
        }
        }
        int marker = 0;
        if (ints [0] > ints [1]) marker = 1;
        if (ints [1] > ints [2]) marker = 2;
        if (ints [2] > ints [3]) marker = 3;
        if (ints [3] > ints [4]) marker = 4;
        System.out.println (tokens [marker]);
    }

    static void eblock (String[] tokens) 
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            System.out.print (tokens [i] + " ");
        System.out.println ();
        System.exit (0);
    }

    static void checkFullHouse (String [] tokens)
    {
        String [] test = new String [5];
        int counter = 0;
        int sum = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++)
        test [i] = tokens [i];
        for (int i = 0; i <=4; i++)
        {
        for (int j = 1; j <= 4; j++)
        {
            if (num (test [i]) == num (tokens [j]))
                counter++;
        }
        if (counter > 1) 
            sum++;
        counter = 0;
        }
        if (sum == 5) eblock (tokens);
    }

    public static void main (String [] args) throws IOException
    {
        String inputString = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (System.in)).readLine ();
        String [] tokens = inputString.split (" ");
        java.util.Arrays.sort (tokens);
        checkFourKind (tokens);
        checkHighFlush (tokens);
        checkFullHouse (tokens);
        checkStraight (tokens);
        checkTwoPair (tokens);
        checkThreeKind (tokens);
        checkPair (tokens);
        checkHighCard (tokens);
    }   
}
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    \$\begingroup\$ shouldn't the answer be golfed? even if there are no competitors, it's still code-golf \$\endgroup\$
    – Blazer
    Feb 12, 2012 at 21:18
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    \$\begingroup\$ I made a first step towards golfing: Reduced from about 12k to about 6k. Roll it back if you don't like it. \$\endgroup\$
    – user unknown
    Feb 13, 2012 at 8:09
  • \$\begingroup\$ This was my first post. Thanks for editing, did I have it right? How does one get points!?! \$\endgroup\$
    – Andrew Quaschnick
    Feb 14, 2012 at 0:56

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