because later I will randomly pick hands from those arrays and assign them to other players,and do the proccess all over again. It's a poker iterator that finds prwin values and i want to remove "known" cards so they can't be reassigned.

Something sounds fishy, probability wise if you are saving hands, and reassigning them, with a "known cards" factor. Maybe you could amplify on what you are trying to test?

From my limited understanding of your description, wouldn't it be easier to approach it from another angle? Instead of trying to "remove known cards so they can't be reassigned", start with a hash of cards as keys, with the values being the number of that card in the deck, then decrement 1 each time the card is dealt?

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In reply to Re: Poker problem by zentara
in thread Poker problem by gman1983

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