Poker Game Dataset

Title: Poker Hand Dataset

Source Information

a) Creators:

 Robert Cattral (cattral@gmail.com)

 Franz Oppacher (oppacher@scs.carleton.ca)
 Carleton University, Department of Computer Science
 Intelligent Systems Research Unit
 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S5B6

c) Date of release: Jan 2007

Past Usage:

1. R. Cattral, F. Oppacher, D. Deugo. Evolutionary Data Mining
   with Automatic Rule Generalization. Recent Advances in Computers,
   Computing and Communications, pp.296-300, WSEAS Press, 2002.
   • Note: This was a slightly different dataset that had more
     classes, and was considerably more difficult.

• Predictive attribute: Poker Hand (labeled ‘class’)
• Found to be a challenging dataset for classification algorithms
• Relational learners have an advantage for some classes
• The ability to learn high level constructs has an advantage

Relevant Information:
Each record is an example of a hand consisting of five playing
cards drawn from a standard deck of 52. Each card is described
using two attributes (suit and rank), for a total of 10 predictive
attributes. There is one Class attribute that describes the
“Poker Hand”. The order of cards is important, which is why there
are 480 possible Royal Flush hands as compared to 4 (one for each
suit – explained in more detail below).

Number of Instances: 25010 training, 1,000,000 testing

Number of Attributes: 10 predictive attributes, 1 goal attribute

Attribute Information:

1. S1 “Suit of card #1”
   Ordinal (1-4) representing {Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, Clubs}

2. C1 “Rank of card #1”
   Numerical (1-13) representing (Ace, 2, 3, ... , Queen, King)

3. S2 “Suit of card #2”
   Ordinal (1-4) representing {Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, Clubs}

4. C2 “Rank of card #2”
   Numerical (1-13) representing (Ace, 2, 3, ... , Queen, King)

5. S3 “Suit of card #3”
   Ordinal (1-4) representing {Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, Clubs}

6. C3 “Rank of card #3”
   Numerical (1-13) representing (Ace, 2, 3, ... , Queen, King)

7. S4 “Suit of card #4”
   Ordinal (1-4) representing {Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, Clubs}

8. C4 “Rank of card #4”
   Numerical (1-13) representing (Ace, 2, 3, ... , Queen, King)

9. S5 “Suit of card #5”
   Ordinal (1-4) representing {Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, Clubs}

10. C5 “Rank of card 5”
    Numerical (1-13) representing (Ace, 2, 3, ... , Queen, King)

11. CLASS “Poker Hand”
    Ordinal (0-9)

0: Nothing in hand; not a recognized poker hand
1: One pair; one pair of equal ranks within five cards
2: Two pairs; two pairs of equal ranks within five cards
3: Three of a kind; three equal ranks within five cards
4: Straight; five cards, sequentially ranked with no gaps
5: Flush; five cards with the same suit
6: Full house; pair + different rank three of a kind
7: Four of a kind; four equal ranks within five cards
8: Straight flush; straight + flush
9: Royal flush; {Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten} + flush

Missing Attribute Values: None