“Texas Holdem: Poker Hand Odds Calculator”

It will be a poker advantage calculator, it will calculate a players winning ratio and normalizes the winning ratio relative to the number of players. An advantage calculator provides a normalized value between -100% and +100% describing a players winning chance in a locked domain.

Research & Design Methodologies

Other Similar iPhone Apps

68 other poker apps in the app store. The oldest ones just calculated pre-flop percentages or calculated two player game odds. There have been 5 new apps released since I started researching the topic and 11 out of the 68 updated with new features so these apps are still popular. I hope to combine all the major functionality of the other apps as from looking through the app store no app has a timer, payout structure, poker hand table percentages and most importantly the hand percentage for pre-flop, the flop, the turn and the river. I didn’t see any app that gives a user feedback on their games progress for example the amount of hands they folded, won, lost either so I wish to incorporate this into my app.

Calculations for calculating percentage

I bought a book called Texas Hold’em Odds by Catalin Barboinanu. This book gives details on how to calculate the percentages of a poker hand winning the hand in question

Design Methodologies
I'm going to follow Human Interface Design on the Apple website

Aims & Objectives

Create an iPhone app that does the following

•      Calculates percentage of the hand, updates the percentage
•      Gives user odds of all hands
•      Has a game timer
•      Hand Strength Table
•      Payout Structure
•      Game Stats

Timescales

Week Ending
07-11-10	Learnt the SDK for iPhone by reading books and completing tutorials on YouTube
14-11-10	Have aims and objectives clarified with Trevor Hogan Decide on what the app shall look like by following a set of frameworks
21-11-10	Make first working prototype of the app It shall do the basic functions of calculating the percentages in a locked domain
28-11-10	Make second prototype with another view giving a user more information about their game of poker such as stats of the game
05-11-10	Ensure the design follows the Human Interface Design

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