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I'm glad I took the time to read the directions very carefully before starting coding :-)
Top Tip: my ranking of hand types relies on the fact that if you count instances of each face and sort the resulting list from high to low, you get a list that when compared with lists from other hands gives an exact correspondence with the order of the hand types as defined, so no need for a bunch of if/thens, just
Otherwise it should all be pretty self-explanatory apart from where I chose to map card rank to hex digits in order to facilitate sorting, so 'b' means 'J'!