Stop telling a brand-new table its players are broke, and give it a way out

Following on from seating the table: a dealer who names six people and hasn't yet said what a buy-in is gets told Nobody at the table has chips left. Add a buy-in to deal. with no buttons on the bar at all. Both halves are wrong for that table. "Left" says the chips were had and lost, which sends the dealer looking for a rebuy — and a blocked prompt with nothing to press is a dead end, when the fix is one field in the sidebar the message never pointed at. A table where nobody has ever bought in is now told what is actually true, and given the way out: Nobody has bought in yet. Set what everyone starts with, or give each seat their chips. [ Set starting stack ] The button opens Table Setup, scrolls the starting stack into view and selects it, so the next thing typed is the answer. A seat with no stack of its own falls back to the table default, which is why one number is enough to seat everybody's chips at once. A table that genuinely busted out is a different situation and still says so, with no starting-stack button — there the fix is a rebuy, not a default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 23:20:13 -06:00
parent e9bc9afcdb
commit c70cb150db
2 changed files with 77 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -593,10 +593,19 @@ const ActionBar = {
            // thing: "only one player is dealt in" is wrong when four are sitting there
            // and three of them are just out of chips.
            const withChips = seated - broke.length;
+            // "Nobody has chips left" is the wrong story for a table that never had
+            // any. A dealer who has just named six people and not yet said what a
+            // buy-in is gets told their players are busted, which sends them looking
+            // for a rebuy button instead of the one field that fixes it.
+            const nobodyHasEverBoughtIn = this.state.seats.every(p =>
+                !(Number(p.buyIns) > 0) && !(Number(p.stack) > 0));
+
            if (broke.length > 0 && withChips < 2) {
                line.textContent = withChips === 1
                    ? `Only ${listNames(Betting.liveSeats(this.state).map(s => s.index).filter(i => !broke.includes(i)))} has chips — ${listNames(broke)} ${broke.length === 1 ? "needs" : "need"} to buy in.`
-                    : "Nobody at the table has chips left. Add a buy-in to deal.";
+                    : nobodyHasEverBoughtIn
+                        ? "Nobody has bought in yet. Set what everyone starts with, or give each seat their chips."
+                        : "Nobody at the table has chips left. Add a buy-in to deal.";
            } else {
                line.textContent = seated === 0
                    ? "Nobody is dealt in yet. Tap a seat to add a player."
@@ -605,6 +614,26 @@ const ActionBar = {
            line.classList.add("dealPromptBlocked");
            wrap.appendChild(line);

+            // A blocked prompt with nothing to press is a dead end, and this was the
+            // one a first-time dealer hits: six players named, a sentence saying they
+            // have no chips, and no button anywhere on the bar. The starting stack is a
+            // single field in the sidebar and the message never pointed at it.
+            if (nobodyHasEverBoughtIn && seated > 0) {
+                const row = document.createElement("div");
+                row.className = "actionButtons";
+                row.appendChild(this.button("Set starting stack", "actionDeal", () => {
+                    const field = document.getElementById("defaultStackInput");
+                    if (!field) return;
+                    const panel = field.closest("details");
+                    if (panel) panel.open = true;
+                    field.scrollIntoView({ block: "center", behavior: "smooth" });
+                    field.focus();
+                    field.select();
+                }));
+                wrap.appendChild(row);
+                return wrap;
+            }
+
            // Named seats that aren't in the hand. Naming a chair now seats whoever is
            // in it, so reaching this takes something else — a table where everyone was
            // sat out, or a save from before that was true — but the way out of it