# Problem 54: Poker hands

In the card game poker, a hand consists of five cards and are ranked,
from lowest to highest, in the following way: High Card: Highest value
card. One Pair: Two cards of the same value. Two Pairs: Two different
pairs. Three of a Kind: Three cards of the same value. Straight: All
cards are consecutive values. Flush: All cards of the same suit. Full
House: Three of a kind and a pair. Four of a Kind: Four cards of the
same value. Straight Flush: All cards are consecutive values of same
suit. Royal Flush: Ten, Jack, Queen, King, Ace, in same suit. The cards
are valued in the order:2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King,
Ace. If two players have the same ranked hands then the rank made up of
the highest value wins; for example, a pair of eights beats a pair of
fives (see example 1 below). But if two ranks tie, for example, both
players have a pair of queens, then highest cards in each hand are
compared (see example 4 below); if the highest cards tie then the next
highest cards are compared, and so on. Consider the following five hands
dealt to two players: Hand Player 1 Player 2 Winner 1 5H 5C 6S 7S KDPair
of Fives 2C 3S 8S 8D TDPair of Eights Player 2 2 5D 8C 9S JS ACHighest
card Ace 2C 5C 7D 8S QHHighest card Queen Player 1 3 2D 9C AS AH ACThree
Aces 3D 6D 7D TD QDFlush with Diamonds Player 2 4 4D 6S 9H QH QCPair of
QueensHighest card Nine 3D 6D 7H QD QSPair of QueensHighest card
Seven Player 1 5 2H 2D 4C 4D 4SFull HouseWith Three Fours 3C 3D 3S 9S
9DFull Housewith Three Threes Player 1 The file, poker.txt, contains
one-thousand random hands dealt to two players. Each line of the file
contains ten cards (separated by a single space): the first five are
Player 1's cards and the last five are Player 2's cards. You can assume
that all hands are valid (no invalid characters or repeated cards), each
player's hand is in no specific order, and in each hand there is a clear
winner. How many hands does Player 1 win?