Dead man's hand Dead man's hand The dead man's hand is a nickname for a particular poker hand, popularly a two-pair of black aces and black eights, although definitions of the hand have varied through the years. Such a hand is said to have been held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered. No contemporaneous source records this hand's exact cards, but Frank Wilstach's 1926 book "Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers" led to the popular modern conception of the "dead man's hand" as containing pairs of black aces and black eights. In Hickok's
Poker Effective Hand Strength (EHS) algorithm algorithm, it can not be computed manually and has to be used in an Artificial Intelligence context. Poker Effective Hand Strength (EHS) algorithm Effective Hand Strength (EHS) is a poker algorithm conceived by computer scientists Darse Billings, Denis Papp, Jonathan Schaeffer and Duane Szafron that has been published for the first time in a It has since then been considered as a reference in the realm of poker artificial intelligence and has been the basis of further research such as: The algorithm is a numerical approach to quantify the strength of a poker hand where its result expresses the strength