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 A Texas Hold'em poker software library.
-Copyright (C) 2011 Scott Stafford
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+_Copyright (C) 2011 Scott Stafford_
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+Currently, the only code in this module is the bootstrapping code necessary to build a database
+of hands that maps to their "pokerval", which is a 32-bit number that can be compared to other
+pokervals to see which hand is better.  This library is therefore useful to do rapid comparisons of many 
+hands.
 
 Dependencies
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-Python 2.x (tested with 2.6 and 2.7)
-probstat for Python: http://sourceforge.net/projects/probstat/
-    The Windows .pyd file is included in this repository for convenience.
-(optional) psyco: Latest Binaries available at http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml.
+* Python 2.x (tested with 2.6 and 2.7)
+* probstat for Python: http://sourceforge.net/projects/probstat/ (The Windows .pyd 
+  file is included in this repository for convenience.)
+* (optional) psyco: Latest Binaries available at http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml.
 
 Getting Started
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