How to Represent a Poker Game State?

Question

In Chess we can represent a game as a FEN string or a PGN, is there any equivalent in poker?If not, what are the values that make up the state of a poker hand? Cards dealt to each player, community cards, pot, etc.How would you represent this in the most efficient way, whilst maintaining all of the necessary information?

gjvc · Accepted Answer

I had NFI what these two TLAs were:FEN --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%E2%80%93Edwards_Notati... PGN --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation

edent · Answer

This sounds suspiciously like a University assignment.
Back in the USENET days, our tutors used to say that we were allowed to post questions to alt.programming.whatever - but we had to show that we'd put some thought into the question and explain where we got stuck.
Think of it like StackOverflow - if you post "how do I do X" you won't get great responses.
But if you write "I'm trying to do X. Using software Y fails with error Z. Googling the error suggests I need ... but I already have that installed. What should I do next?" you'll get better responses.
So, what ways have you tried to store a poker hand? What problems have you encountered?