Pay down the Hold'em dealer's tech debt and give it a test suite

Every module in the dealer ends with a `module.exports` guard, so they were all
written to be testable, and none of them were ever tested. The correctness fixes
that went in recently were checked by hand in a browser console that has since
been closed. This puts a real safety net under them and clears out the
duplication that made those bugs possible in the first place.

Tests (58, ~300ms, no dependencies)

Node's built-in runner, no package.json and no install step: the modules are
plain script-tag files, so `load.js` just requires them and puts them on
globalThis under the names they use to find each other in the page.

The randomised suite is the part that matters. Every bug found in this tool so
far has been shape-dependent — blinds posted to empty chairs, the button
skipping players, heads-up acting out of order — and none of them show up on the
full six-handed table anyone would write a fixed example for. It deals 1000
hands per property across random seat counts, empty chairs, stack depths and
dealer input, checking that chips are never created or destroyed, that the pot
breakdown plus uncalled returns equals the money in, that paying out settles to
the cent, and that the button and blinds always land on real players. The
generator is seeded so a failure reproduces instead of flaking.

One implementation each

- `Math.round(x * 100) / 100` was written out 16 times across 6 files. It's
  `Money.round` / `toCents` / `fromCents` now, in the module both pages already
  load first.
- The chip epsilon was declared twice with the same value under two names
  (`PotCalculator.EPSILON`, `Betting.EPSILON_CHIPS`). Both now point at
  `Money.EPSILON`.
- `Betting.seatAt` and `HoldemState.nextSeatIndex` were the same modular
  arithmetic written twice. Walking the seats is exactly where the button, the
  blinds and the action drifted apart from each other before, so there is one
  of it now.
- The undo snapshot/restore dance appeared three times in main.js, each one
  re-deleting every key on `state` in place. It's `snapshotState` /
  `restoreState` once, with the reason it can't just reassign written down.

A bug the tests found

`layers()` and `uncalledReturns()` both decide what money was never contested,
separately, and disagreed. `uncalledReturns` measured each player against the
biggest live contribution *including their own*, which makes the biggest bet its
own yardstick — so the one case it exists for came back empty, and `layers()`
announced the overbet as a side pot only the bettor could win.

With Ann shoving 200 into Ben's 60, the dealer was told "main pot 4, side pot 3,
side pot 116, side pot 140" — four pots, one of them fictional. It now reads
"main pot 123, uncalled 140 back to Ann", which is what a dealer says out loud.
Layers are derived from contributions with the uncalled money already removed,
so the two can't disagree again. A band every payer folded out of is now merged
into the pot below rather than dropped, which was quietly shrinking the
announced pot in another edge case.

Validated with Playwright against a real hand on both surfaces — the table's
live pot readout and Quick Split's all-in mode — plus undo, with no console
errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
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// Shared money formatting for every casino surface. Kept apart from the table's
// rendering so the quick-split calculator can pull in the formatter without dragging
// the whole seat/chip UI along with it.
// Shared money handling for every casino surface. Kept apart from the table's
// rendering so the quick-split calculator can pull it in without dragging the whole
// seat/chip UI along with it.
//
// Everything the dealer touches is money, and money is decimal, so every module used
// to carry its own `Math.round(x * 100) / 100`. That's one rounding rule written out
// sixteen times in six files, which is sixteen chances for one of them to drift.
// It lives here now, and the modules that do arithmetic call these instead.
const Money = {
// Half a cent. Chip comparisons need a tolerance: a stack that lands on
// 0.0000000001 after a split is empty as far as a dealer is concerned, and an
// exact `> 0` would treat that player as still having chips to bet.
EPSILON: 0.004,
// All money maths goes through cents, so 0.1 + 0.2 never reaches a payout.
toCents(amount) {
return Math.round((Number(amount) || 0) * 100);
},
fromCents(cents) {
return cents / 100;
},
round(amount) {
return this.toCents(amount) / 100;
},
format(amount) {
const value = Number(amount) || 0;
return `$${value.toLocaleString(undefined, { minimumFractionDigits: 2, maximumFractionDigits: 2 })}`;