Say when somebody is being dealt in for free, and give the dealer the post

Sitting down between the button and the big blind means the blinds have gone past you. The tool dealt those players straight in, silently. Measured: Eve takes a seat, and the next hand she is dealt cards in late position having put nothing in — a free hand, out of everyone else's night a couple of dollars at a time, with nothing anywhere on screen to tell the dealer it had happened. At a table there are two answers and the player picks one: post the big blind and come in now, or wait for the blind to reach them. The tool did neither and named neither. The deal prompt now names anyone about to be dealt in who has not paid for it, and carries the post as one tap. Nothing is forced — a home game that doesn't care can deal as before, and the sentence is still worth having on its own, because the dealer at least knows. The post goes in as a big blind out of that player's own stack, is live like any blind, and is spent at the end of the hand rather than becoming a standing charge. Somebody back from sitting out is owed one the same as a newcomer. The big blind of the hand isn't — they're already paying — and neither is anyone at a table that has not dealt a hand yet, where the whole table is new and nobody has been skipped. Deliberately one line for however many have walked up, not one each: the bar is docked over the felt and the felt has already shrunk as far as it goes on a phone, so every line costs seat area. A line apiece put the bar over two fifths of the bottom seat at 390x844. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
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            wrap.appendChild(out);
        }

+        // Somebody who has just sat down between the button and the big blind has had
+        // the blinds go past them, and dealing them in there is a free hand in late
+        // position. At a table the answer is that they post the big blind to come in
+        // now, or wait for it to reach them. The tool used to do neither and say
+        // nothing: it dealt them in for free, and the dealer had no way to know it had
+        // happened. Both answers are offered here; neither is forced, because a home
+        // game that doesn't care shouldn't have to argue with its own scoreboard.
+        // One line for however many have walked up, not one each. The bar is docked
+        // over the felt and the felt has already shrunk as far as it will go on a
+        // phone, so every line here is taken out of the ring of seats: measured at
+        // 390x844 with two newcomers, a line apiece put the bar over two fifths of the
+        // bottom seat. They post together or they wait together, which is what happens
+        // at a table anyway when two people sit down at once.
+        if (preview.debtors.length > 0) {
+            const ids = preview.debtors.map(i => this.state.seats[i].id);
+            const posting = ids.every(id => preview.posting.includes(id));
+            const who = listNames(preview.debtors);
+            const each = preview.debtors.length > 1 ? " each" : "";
+
+            const line = document.createElement("p");
+            line.className = "dealPromptLine dealPromptAside dealPromptDebt";
+
+            const text = document.createElement("span");
+            text.textContent = posting
+                ? `${who} posting ${Money.format(preview.bigBlind)}${each} to come in.`
+                : `${who} sat down after the blinds — ${preview.debtors.length > 1 ? "free hands" : "a free hand"} unless they post.`;
+            line.appendChild(text);
+
+            line.appendChild(this.button(
+                posting ? "Don't post" : `Post ${Money.format(preview.bigBlind)}${each}`,
+                "dealPromptDebtBtn",
+                () => this.commit(
+                    posting ? `${who} waiting for the blind` : `${who} posting to come in`,
+                    () => { this.state.postingIn = posting ? [] : ids; })
+            ));
+            wrap.appendChild(line);
+        }
+
        const row = document.createElement("div");
        row.className = "actionButtons";
        row.appendChild(this.button("Post blinds & deal", "actionDeal", () => {