My Poker Project

A Visual Basic Program for Artificial Intelligence

I used Visual Basic to create this program for an individual project when I took Artificial Intelligence at IUSB. If you would like to try it out, you may download MyPoker.zip (1.9 mb). You will need to unzip this file and then run the setup.exe program to install the MyPoker program. When you run the program, click on the white poker chip to deal the cards. In the document MyPoker.doc I describe the various levels of intelligence of the poker players. If you just want to take a quick look at the layout, see this screenshot (125 kb). The 'Matched 1' notation for Player 6 means that it had to bet $1 to match and stay in the game after Player Nancy Raised.

Use the 'Options' command in the File menu to set up your game options. As the concentration for this project was the intelligence of the players, the gui (graphical user interface) is not yet complete. If you wish to stop a game before completion (when only one player has any money), you will get an error and will need to close the program and restart it. Also, the log file will keep building by appending new runs, so you will need to go in and delete this file if you do a lot of runs, as it will get large very quickly. The log files will be in the same folder as the executable, which will be in C:\Program Files\Poker in a default installation.