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jheapsandClaude Opus 5 4db6f6e4d3 Take the chips the pot was priced with, not just pay them out
Two rounds of asking where the tool disagrees with itself, and here is the last
of it — the one that was actually creating money.

There are two ways a contribution gets in. Tapping the action moves chips: the
bet leaves the stack, sits in front of the player, and is swept into their hand
total. The other is the "without live betting" panel — a base pot amount, or
chips counted out on a seat — for a dealer recording a hand they are watching
rather than driving. Nothing leaves anybody's stack there.

The pot wizard prices both the same way, and awarding it credits the winner. So
in the second mode the table simply grew. Measured at a three-handed table with a
$50 base pot: stacks 200, 200, 200 before, pot priced at $150, and afterwards
350, 200, 200 — six hundred dollars of chips became seven hundred and fifty, and
the bank check, newly able to see it, blamed a rebuy nobody had made.

So before the pot is pushed, whatever was assumed rather than taken comes off the
stacks that assumed it, and is recorded where a swept bet lives. Chips already
committed or swept are left alone — they have been paid once, and taking them
twice is the same bug the other way round. A base pot on top of a live bet
collects only the difference. Nobody is charged more than they are holding, and
an empty chair or a seat sitting out is charged nothing at all.

The same hand now ends 300, 150, 150: the table has the six hundred it started
with, and the bank check is balanced before, during and after.

13 new tests, with the already-paid test disabled on purpose to confirm five of
them catch the double charge. Walked through the UI in base-pot mode: pot badge
$150, wizard pricing three seats at $50 each, and afterwards the felt holding
exactly what it held before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 09:21:19 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 1c2e716508 Ask the same two questions the same way everywhere
The round before this found the bank check and the standings reading a seat's own
stack where the felt reads the table's starting stack — two parts of the tool
disagreeing about how much money was on the table. That was worth a sweep, and
the sweep found more.

The colour-up panel had the same fault. It is the panel that says "count out
2×$100 for this player", and on a table opened the ordinary way — a starting
stack and some names — it showed nothing at all. The one table where every stack
is a round number made of the largest chips there are was the table it had
nothing to say about.

The other question, "is anybody in this chair", existed in four spellings: in the
seat count, in the seat menu twice, in the waiting list, and twice more in the
state module. Three of them looked at name, chips and cash; one also looked at a
hand being dealt. A chair that counts as occupied for one and empty for another
is how somebody's chips get given away — measured, a seat marked in hand with no
name and no stack yet was on offer to the next person in the waiting queue, on
top of whoever was already playing it.

Both questions now have one implementation and one name:

    "What is this seat holding?"   HoldemState.chipsHeldBy
    "Is anybody in this chair?"    HoldemState.seatInPlay

10 new tests, including one that pins the bank check, the standings and the
settle-up plan to the same total, and one that pins the seat count and the open
seats to the same set of empty chairs. The occupancy test was cut back to its old
three-part form on purpose to confirm the waiting-list case fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 09:05:32 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 1689ecb4f0 Count the chips the table is actually playing with
"Starting stack" is how a night opens. The setup panel offers it and says what it
means — "seats without their own stack start here" — and everything a dealer
looks at reads it: the puck, the action bar, what a player is allowed to bet.

The money side didn't. The bank check and the standings read `seat.stack`
directly, which is null for exactly those seats. Measured on a three-handed table
with a $200 starting stack and nobody's own stack typed in: the felt played for
$600, the bank check reported no chips in play and pronounced itself balanced,
and the standings — the list a dealer settles the night from — listed nobody at
all. Three players, six hundred dollars, and the tool's own accounting said the
table was empty.

Both now ask the same question the felt asks. The check reports $600 in play
against nothing taken, which is the truth: those chips have not been paid for.
Empty chairs are excluded, or the starting stack would make every one of them
look like somebody holding two hundred dollars — a ten-seat table would have
opened with $2,000 of imaginary chips.

Being told is only half of it. The verdict names the seats rather than saying
"somebody's rebuy probably wasn't recorded", because the dealer's next move is to
go to a particular chair and the tool knows which. And the seats holding the
table's starting stack — the dealer's own instruction, said once in the setup
panel — can be written down in one tap instead of six trips through Add chips.
Only those: what somebody's forgotten rebuy was is a question only the dealer can
answer, and guessing it would be the tool inventing money, which is the fault
this round is about.

14 new tests, with the stack source and the empty-chair test broken on purpose to
confirm they fail. Walked through in the browser from a cleared table: set the
starting stack, name three seats, and the panel goes from "balanced, no chips" to
"$600 more in chips than cash taken. Ann, Ben and Cal are holding chips with no
buy-in written down" — then to balanced, with the buy-ins recorded and undoable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 08:52:56 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 55eb569d3b Keep the list of who's next, instead of leaving it on a napkin
A full home game always has two or three people standing behind the chairs, and
the list of who's next lives on a napkin or in the dealer's head. That is where
the argument an hour later comes from. The tool had just learned to open a chair
— somebody cashes out and the seat is free — and had nothing to say about who
should sit in it.

The Session panel keeps the list in order of arrival, which is the only ordering
anybody has ever agreed to. Whoever is at the front is offered the first open
chair by number, and everybody else waits their turn: a list that isn't kept in
order is a pile of names, and jumping the queue is the thing a dealer gets
shouted at for. With the table full it says so rather than offering a seat that
doesn't exist. The same offer appears on the empty chair's own menu — "Seat
Priya" — because tapping the chair somebody is about to sit in is what a dealer's
hand does anyway.

Sitting somebody down puts their name on the chair and nothing else. No stack, no
buy-in, not dealt in: they haven't paid yet, and inventing chips for them would
put money on the table nobody has handed over, which is the one thing the bank
check exists to catch. Add chips is the next thing the dealer does, and it is one
tap away in the same menu.

Two people called Mike are two people — the list is keyed by id, not by name.
Names are trimmed, blanks are refused, and a saved list from a table that never
had one comes back empty rather than undefined.

15 new tests, with the occupied-chair guard removed and a stack handed to the new
player on purpose to confirm they fail. Walked through the browser: two names
added to a full table, a player cashed out to open seat 2, the front of the queue
seated there with nothing in front of them, the bank still balanced, and the
second name taken off the list. 156 audits with the list populated, including a
name long enough to test the row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 08:37:44 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 86886ac126 Take a hand back, which the rulings sheet has been asking for all along
This tool has told dealers to redeal on a misdeal since the rulings sheet was
written — first card to the wrong seat, a seat entitled to a hand dealt out, one
of the first two cards exposed — and it had no way to do it. The only control
that ended a live hand was Next Hand, which says out loud that it takes the money
off the table without paying anybody. That is the right answer for an abandoned
pot and the wrong one for a misdeal, where the blinds and the calls belong to the
people who put them in.

Undo covers the first second of it: "↶ dealing the hand" is one tap. But the
action history lives in memory, so a dealer who is three calls in, or who has
refreshed the page mid-hand, has nothing — and a refresh mid-hand is exactly the
situation this tool has spent rounds making survivable everywhere else.

Misdeal appears in the header while a hand is out and goes away when it isn't:
before the deal there is nothing to take back, and afterwards it would be
offering to unwind a hand that has already been paid. It says what it will do to
the money — "$25 goes back to the players who put it in, cards are cleared, and
the same button deals again" — and adds a note when two or more players have
already acted, because most rooms let a deal stand at that point. It doesn't
refuse: which conditions make a misdeal is the dealer's call and the sheet is
right there.

What comes back is everything, including chips already swept into hand totals on
an earlier street — the first version returned only the current street's and
would have quietly kept a flop's betting. What stays is the button, the blinds,
the straddle and anyone posting in: a misdeal is the same hand dealt again, not
the next one, so the hand number doesn't move and nothing is logged.

13 new tests, with the sweep and the straddle broken on purpose to confirm they
catch it. Measured through the UI: pot $25 with three players in, take it back,
every stack is exactly $200 again, the bank still balances, and dealing again
posts the same blinds on the same players from the same button. 156 audits with
the button live, including a landscape header that stays one row at 46px.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 08:23:27 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 f966d8c340 Pay somebody out and keep the chair, the cash and the record straight
The most ordinary thing that happens at a home game after midnight — somebody
counts up and goes home — and the tool had nothing for it. Freeing the chair
meant wiping the seat by hand, and the bank check then declared their whole stack
missing: "someone has paid for chips they haven't been given", for the rest of
the night. Measured on a balanced table, cashing a player out with $350 in front
of them left the check $350 short. Wiping their buy-in as well silenced it, at
the price of losing their entire night from the standings and from the file the
dealer hands over at the end.

Cashing out is two facts, and both have to survive the empty chair: the box took
their cash, and the box handed their chips back. Both are kept now, so the chair
opens and the money still adds up.

Cash out… is in the seat menu. It says what to count — "$350 — 3×$100, 2×$25" —
what they bought in for, and whether they leave up or down, because that is the
sentence the dealer says while their hands are moving. The bank check gains a
Paid out line and reads "balanced ... once the $350 paid out to players who have
left is counted", alongside the discards and the house's cut. The standings keep
them with a stripe and the words "· paid out", so nobody counts money out to them
twice at 2am, and the export marks them the same way.

It refuses to pay anybody with money still in the middle: taking chips out of a
pot other people can win, or handing the same chips over twice, are both worse
than waiting for the hand to finish. The chair gets a fresh id, because the
person who had it has gone and the next player to sit down is not them.

Two things this turned up. The first draft worked out what a seat was holding by
itself, read `Number(null)` as a perfectly good zero, and offered to pay a player
with no stack set nothing at all — it asks Betting now, which owns that rule.
The second was mine and the audit caught it: marking the departed row with
opacity took the In and Won cells to 3.83:1, under AA, on the very list a dealer
settles from. It is a stripe instead.

19 new tests, with the departed buy-in dropped from the check and the pot guard
disabled on purpose to confirm they fail. Walked through in the browser: menu,
confirm, payout, bank, standings, undo, and the refusal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 08:08:46 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 0e2821257f Run the clock on a player, instead of counting in your head
The bar has had a stopwatch on the acting seat for a while: how long this player
has been thinking, so the dealer knows when it's worth a nudge. What it never had
was the thing a dealer actually does about it. Calling the clock is a procedure —
a player asks, the dealer grants it, the player gets a set time and then a
countdown said out loud, and if they still haven't acted the hand is decided for
them. Running that from this tool meant counting in your head while the table
argued about whether it had been thirty seconds yet.

Thirty and then ten, which is the common form and what the TDA writes down. The
countdown is the part the table hears, so it is marked apart rather than being
ten more seconds of the same: the readout switches to a bare number and turns
red. At zero the bar says the ruling in the dealer's own words and offers it as
one button.

The ruling depends on what they were facing, and getting that backwards is the
part worth being careful about. Facing a bet, the hand is dead. Facing nothing,
it is checked — nobody gets folded for being slow when checking was free.

Three things about where it sits. The button appears only once somebody has been
thinking long enough for the table to start asking, which is the same threshold
the stopwatch already marks, so an ordinary hand costs no room at all: measured
at 390x844, the bar is 152px with or without it. It is 44px like everything else
a thumb has to find — it was drawn at 36 and the audit called it at every touch
viewport the moment the check ran, which is the rule doing its job on a control
that kills a hand. And once the count is over the Stop button goes, because there
is nothing left to stop: at 640x360 its 94px pushed the undo control onto a
second line and the taller bar covered the two bottom seats.

The ordinary Fold/Check/Raise stay underneath the ruling. A player who speaks up
as the count ends is still acting, and whether it was in time is the dealer's
call, not the tool's.

11 new tests, and both halves of the ruling were inverted on purpose to check
they catch it. Watched end to end in the browser at shortened intervals: the
button appears, the count runs down, the ruling lands, and the hand is killed —
or checked — with the undo control naming what happened.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 05:40:06 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 c19575ab10 Count the house's cut instead of calling it missing chips
A game that takes a rake has chips leaving the table every hand, and the bank
check had no idea. It added up the buy-ins, added up the chips on the felt, and
told the dealer somebody had been paid for chips they were never given — a
shortfall that grows all night and points at a miscount that never happened.
Every home game that takes a drop for the beer fund hits this on hand one.

So the tool takes it, rather than watching it go. Under Table Setup: a
percentage, an optional cap, and "no flop, no drop" — the rule almost everyone
plays, on by default, where a hand that ends before the flop pays nothing. Zero
percent is a game that doesn't rake, which is most of them and the default, and
nothing about that game changes.

Where it shows up is the point. The pot wizard says "House takes $2 of $40 — 5%,
capped at $5" above the payouts, before a chip moves, because the summary is the
dealer's last chance to disagree with the arithmetic and money taken quietly is
the one thing a tool like this must never do. The bank check gets a House take
line and says "balanced ... once the $2 in the house's cut is counted". The hand
log keeps the pot as the table saw it with the cut recorded beside it, and the
export has a column for it, so the night's total is one sum in a spreadsheet.

Two decisions worth stating. The rake rounds *down* to a chip the table actually
has: a house that can't make 40c takes nothing and the players keep it, which is
the only way to be wrong about this that nobody argues with. And on a split pot
it comes off the top, then what is left is shared in proportion — with the
rounding leftovers going back to the winners rather than to the house, which
asked for a number and gets that number, not that number plus dust.

Measured end to end through the UI: 5% capped at $5 on a $40 pot pays $38 and
banks $2; four stacks plus the cut come to exactly the $800 bought in; the bank
check reads balanced. With no-flop-no-drop on, a hand folded round pre-flop pays
the full $15 and takes nothing; with it off the same hand pays $14 and takes $1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 05:12:33 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 8aa90e90a4 Give a phone on its side the table shape it needs
The last two rounds left one thing failing and said so: a landscape phone with
six or twelve seats stacked two of them 25px apart at each end of the felt, with
pucks 64px tall. It has been there since seats were first spaced by distance
rather than by angle. Three things were wrong at once, and it needed all three.

The rim is the wrong shape when the table is very flat. An ellipse 616px wide and
96px tall has nowhere to put the seats near its ends: the curve doubles back on
itself, so two seats a long walk apart come out one above the other. Past two and
a half times wider than tall the rim is now a stadium — two straight rails with a
half-round cap at each end, which is how a real poker table is built and exactly
why it is built that way. A cap is a half-circle of the felt's own height, so an
end takes one seat and the rest is rail. Only past that ratio: measured, the
cut-off lands between a landscape phone at 4.4 and every other layout the tool
has, 1.45 at 1280x900 and 1.0 to 1.4 upright, so no working table changes shape.

The ring had less height than the felt did. The seat layer is inset by half a
puck to keep the outermost seats on screen, and 26px off the top and bottom of a
96px felt left 44px to work with — less than half the table, which is why no rim
shape could have fixed it alone. The inset is a percentage where the felt is
short. The landscape branch never had that rule at all, because it is matched on
height while the inset lives in a width query, so an 844px-wide phone on its side
drew its ring against the felt's whole box; with a flat-topped stadium rail that
put a dealer button over Resolve Pot in the header.

And the puck was a line too tall. In the tight state the hole cards give up their
row: of the four things on a puck, the cards are the one the dealer is holding in
their other hand, and the seat editor still shows them. That took the puck from
64px to 55px, which is what finally cleared the ends.

Measured across 36 combinations of nine viewports and 2, 6, 9 and 12 seats: the
closest two seats at 640x360 go from 25px apart to 55px, and every combination is
clean. Then 216 audits across thirteen viewports, three seat counts and both a
mouse and a thumb: no failures, no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 04:58:59 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 dc5db16ffd Let the phone table use the width it has
Last round capped the felt so the ring would clear the action bar, and capped the
wrong dimension. The wide layout sizes the felt from its width, so capping the
width is how you shorten it there — on a phone the felt is already the full width
of the column, and capping that threw away 96px of a 360px screen: a 240x240
table inside a 336px space, with nine pucks crowding it.

A max-height instead leaves the width alone and lets the aspect ratio give way,
which turns a short screen into a wide oval — the shape a poker table is. At
360x640: 336x240 rather than 240x240, same clearance over the bar, and the
twelve-seat ring that was crowded at 240 comes out clean, which closes the one
combination left failing last round. Where the room isn't the binding constraint,
390x844 and up, nothing changes and the table stays round. The landscape branch
now says max-height: none, because it already spends the same measured room on
its own height and applying it twice took the felt to the floor value.

The measurement that decides whether pucks shrink was also wrong, in a way that
only showed up once it was asked a hard question. Rim length per seat measures
the walk between two seats, not the gap between them, and on a long oval the rim
doubles back at the ends: twelve seats at 640x360 had 193px of rim each and sat
60px apart. It now measures the closest two neighbours directly, off the ring
itself — and off the seat layer rather than the felt, because the layer is inset
by half a puck on a phone and the felt's box put the answer out by 30px.

That makes the rule geometric rather than about screen size, so it is no longer
scoped to a phone media query: a wide landscape felt crowds at its ends while its
rim claims there is room, and now it is told so.

Pucks still touch at nine and twelve seats on a small screen. Tried 46px against
58px: on a roomy phone 46 cleared every overlap where 58 left two, but in a hand
with a side pot, where the bar has grown and the felt has shrunk to suit, 46
overlapped four times and 58 twice. That is the felt being small, not the puck
being wide, and paying for it with an ellipsis on every long name buys nothing.
What has to hold is that each seat keeps its own centre, and that is measured at
every size.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 04:33:25 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 b9b2237dbe Run the two checks the audit had and never used
runAll() did not include the contrast check — it simply wasn't in the list — and
touch targets sat behind an opt-in flag nothing passed. So "the audit is clean"
has meant nine checks rather than eleven for a long run of rounds, and the two
left out are the two whose faults a dealer meets in a dim room with their thumb.
Both were written, tested, and then never called; the contrast checker was built
across two rounds and every sweep since has been silent about colour.

The standalone runner had a second version of the same hole: the 44px rule
stands itself down where `hover: hover` says there's a pointer, and a headless
desktop browser is a pointer, so a single pass had never measured a touch target
at any viewport. It now runs every viewport twice, once with a mouse and once
with a thumb.

A check that decides it doesn't apply now says so, rather than reporting an empty
offenders list — which reads exactly like a pass.

Faded text is measured instead of filed as unchecked. `opacity` on a box fades
the box and its text together onto whatever is behind it, so a dimmed seat is not
grey text on a dark puck: it is a faded puck and faded text both landing on the
page. Both halves are composited that way now. Two exemptions remain and both say
so out loud: a disabled control, which WCAG itself excuses, and a link inside a
sentence, whose size is set by the line it sits in.

What running them found, and this round fixes:

  - the chair number on every seat: #8a8a8a at 9px, 3.39:1 once the empty seat's
    fade is composited, on the label that answers "which seat is that?";
  - Quick Split's amount field at 37px tall and its delete button at 30px across,
    on a page whose targets had never been measured;
  - and on a 360x640 phone with the bar grown by a side pot, the bottom seat
    sitting 38px inside it.

That last one brings back a cap this project measured and rejected once: capping
the felt to the room left fixed the six-seat ring and broke the nine-seat one.
That trade was real then and isn't now — seats are spaced by distance around the
rim rather than by angle, so a shorter felt no longer piles them up. Re-measured
across 30 combinations of five phone sizes and 2 to 12 seats: every one clean
except twelve seats at 360x640, where a 240px felt and a 64px puck cannot both be
true. Where the rim can't give each seat a puck's width, the pucks come down a
size, measured from the rim itself rather than from a media query.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 04:02:43 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 fc866597eb Deal the straddle, instead of leaving the dealer to fake it
A straddle is a blind raise put out before the cards by the player left of the
big blind, for twice it. Home games run them constantly, and the tool had no
idea they existed — so a dealer's only way through was to deal the hand and have
the straddler "raise" to $4, which gets the money right and the other two rules
wrong.

There are three at once:

  - the amount doubles as it goes left, and re-straddles carry on doubling;
  - first to act is left of the *straddler*, not left of the big blind, and the
    straddler keeps the option when it comes back round even if nobody raised;
  - the minimum raise is twice the straddle. Measured off the big blind
    underneath it, a $2/$4 game prices the next raise at $6, and every player at
    the table will argue — correctly.

Tap Straddle on the deal prompt and the tool posts it, puts the right player on
the clock and prices the raise. The seat wears an STR badge for the hand, read
off what the deal actually posted rather than off the count, so the badge can't
outlive the chips it stands for. It's a one-hand decision, like posting in, and
it clears when the button moves.

The control sits on the deal row rather than a line of its own: measured at
390x844, its own line cost 44px of felt on every deal prompt, straddle or no
straddle, and this bar is docked over the seats. Three buttons across a 360px
phone want to wrap, which made the bar 64px taller and put the bottom seat three
fifths behind it — this layout deliberately doesn't shrink the felt to suit, so
the deal button is given a 7rem floor instead, which keeps the row to one line
and the cost to nothing.

20 new tests, checked by breaking each of the three rules on purpose first: the
wrong first-to-act, the minimum measured off the big blind, and a flat rather
than doubling chain each fail a different one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 03:32:17 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 b97453fba1 Seat the table properly on a phone held sideways
Landscape is the one shape this layout has never really fitted, and the audit
was calling two separate faults there.

The felt worked its own height out as `100vh - bar - 7rem`, guessing that
everything above it came to 7rem. That is 108px at 640x360, which the guess
covers, and 119px at 844x390, which it doesn't — so on an iPhone on its side the
bottom row of seats sat up to 26px inside the action bar. The measurement it
needed was already being published for the wide layout: the bar's real height,
the wrap's real offset and the bottom seat's overhang, all taken off the window.
It uses that now. The floor under it drops from 220px to 96px, because 220 was
not a size a 390px-tall window has to give — holding out for it was itself how
seats ended up behind the Fold button, which is the one thing the floor exists
to prevent.

That still left the header taking two rows, and the second row is 44px of the
390. The title block and the five buttons came to 829px inside a 765px header,
missing one line by 64px. The page title goes — the one thing on this screen a
dealer already knows — hidden from the eye rather than removed, so the heading
is still there for a screen reader. The buttons tighten across but never down:
they stay a 44px thumb target.

The seats themselves were spaced by angle, which is only even spacing on a
circle. On a 601x126 felt, ten seats at 36° apart put four of them down each
steep end, 20px apart, with pucks 72px tall — a seat's centre belonged to its
neighbour, so tapping a player got the wrong one. They now walk the rim by
distance instead, which puts them along the two long rails the way a real table
seats people. Closest neighbours go from 33px apart to 59px.

Measured at 640x360, 667x375 and 844x390 with 9-, 10- and 12-seat tables: every
combination the audit used to fail is clean, bar a 10-seat table at 640x360,
where two seats at the end of a rim that flat still overlap. Portrait, tablet
and desktop are unchanged — the floor never bound there, and on a rounder felt
walking the rim gives back the same angles it always did.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 03:13:00 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 419852a1f4 Let a dealer take the table off the device it's stuck on
The night lives in one browser's localStorage and nowhere else. A dealer whose phone
dies, or who wants to carry on from the tablet after the break, loses the stacks, the
buy-ins, where the button is and the whole hand log. The CSV export can't bring any of
it back: it records what happened, not where the table stands.

The table can now be written to a file and read back. Round-tripped through the real
UI, a hand in progress comes back mid-hand — blinds posted, the same seat on the
clock, the button where it was.

Loading replaces everything, so it asks first and names both sides rather than saying
"are you sure": how many players are in the file and when it was saved, against how
many players and how many logged hands are about to go. It goes through the same
undoable path as the header buttons, so the toast offers the way back, and the
confirm says so instead of overstating it.

Reading a file goes through exactly the same migration a save from storage does —
load() had that logic inline and it is now a function both call. A second, looser path
for imports is how a format grows two meanings of the same field.

What it refuses, each with something a dealer can act on and never a half-loaded
table: anything that isn't JSON, JSON with no seats in it, a save from some other tool
that happens to carry a `kind`, and a file from a newer version — that last one
because loading it risks reading a field whose meaning has changed, and the dealer
would find out from the money. What it accepts anyway: a bare table with no envelope,
for somebody who copied the storage value out by hand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 01:07:13 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 8a2fc3e540 Give undo and the card picker's buttons a fingertip to land on
The first thing the repaired audit found, run on a real touch context at 44px: three
controls a dealer taps on a phone that are too small to tap.

    .actionUndo             145x30   the "I recorded that wrong" pill
    #cardPickerClearBtn      50x40   wipes a player's cards
    #cardPickerCloseBtn      50x40   closes the picker

Undo is the worst of them. It is the control a dealer reaches for having just entered
the wrong action with five people waiting, and it was fourteen pixels short of a
fingertip. The picker's two are short because the touch rule that fixes every other
small button is scoped to .panelBody, and the picker is a sheet — it never reached
them. One of them is destructive.

All three now sit at 44px on touch. Nothing changes on a pointer device.

I tried an invisible hit-area pad on undo first, to avoid spending bar height, and the
measurement said it did nothing: the pill clips its overflow to keep a long label on
one line, and giving it a positioning context made it clip the pad too. Growing the
box is the honest fix, and it turned out to cost nothing anyway — the bar goes from
138px to 152px and the felt stays at 366px, because the felt had slack against its
220px floor rather than sitting on it as I had assumed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 00:55:56 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 b64da7a787 Make the layout audit usable inside modals, and stop it passing what it can't measure
Last round turned up that Quick Split had never been audited. Chasing that, the reason
the dealer table's modals had never been audited either turns out to be the harness,
not neglect: it reported the pot wizard covering the seats as ten faults and the
rulings sheet as seven. A modal covering the page is what a modal is for, and an
instrument that calls that a fault is one nobody can use in those states.

It now finds whatever is open on top and scopes the reachability checks to it — the
overlays, plus the phone seat sheet, which is a body class rather than an element. The
seat-ownership check is skipped outright while a sheet is open: seats behind it aren't
fighting each other for taps, nothing is meant to reach them at all.

Two worse faults came out of proving the fix rather than assuming it. Injecting a 20x14
button into the open wizard, the contrast check caught it and the touch-target check
did not:

  * effectiveTarget returns null when elementFromPoint can't find the control, and the
    check treated that as a pass. Silent skips are how faults hide — the same lesson as
    the aria-hidden and faded-text exemptions before this. Unmeasurable controls are
    now reported as warnings.
  * The probe failed on anything scrolled out of its container. That was hiding a real
    control: "Confirm Winner(s)", the button that pays the pot out, had gone unmeasured
    for thirty-six rounds. It is scrolled into view before probing, and passes.

A checkbox inside a label is now measured by its label, since tapping the label is what
activates it. Without that, the dedicated-dealer toggle read as an unprobeable 24px
target when it has a 335x44 label around it.

The tool itself came out clean: no failures and no warnings across the table, the pot
wizard, the rulings sheet and the seat editor, on a real touch context at 44px. The
value here is that those states can be checked at all from now on — verified by
injection, which the fixed check catches and the old one did not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 00:37:47 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 3be93cdadf Chop a side pot on the screen that worked it out, and fix Quick Split's contrast
Quick Split lists the pots when somebody is all-in — main, sides, uncalled — and then
leaves the dealer there. Two players tying for a side pot is ordinary, and working out
each one's share meant switching to the other mode and retyping an amount the screen
had just calculated. Retyping a number with money on it is a transcription error
waiting to happen, and the number was already on screen.

Each pot with two or more people who can win it now carries a Chop, opening underneath
its own row: as many ways as there are contenders by default, a stepper for a chop
between fewer of them, and the same odd-chip and dust wording the main split uses,
because it is the same rule and the dealer shouldn't have to notice they are reading a
different screen. Per-row state, so opening the main pot's chop doesn't disturb what
the side pot below it says. Not offered on the uncalled row, which goes back to one
player, nor on the total.

Separately, this page had never been through the layout audit the dealer table gets
every round, and it was carrying nine contrast failures:

    .unevenCurrency   4.11:1   the $ beside every amount typed
    .unevenRemoveBtn  3.66:1   the ✕ that deletes a player's entry
    .splitFootnote    3.94:1   the instruction for what to do with the pot list

All under the 4.5:1 small-text minimum, the worst of them on a destructive control.
Lifted to pass. The large $ on the even-mode pot input is left alone: at 1.6rem it is
large text, where 3:1 is the bar and 4.11:1 clears it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 00:24:07 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 40fa16920b Offer bet sizes the table's chips can actually make
Half the pot lands on a half chip constantly. Pre-flop at 1/2 the honest half-pot is
$4.50, and the smallest chip in the default legend is a dollar — the tool's own chip
breakdown calls it "4×$1, $0.50 no chip covers". The button offered it anyway, so the
dealer rounded it themselves every single time.

The pot-derived quick amounts now round up to something the table can build. Up, not
down or nearest: these are bet sizes, a pot-sized bet that has been shaved is no
longer a pot-sized bet, and rounding up cannot drop an amount below a legal minimum
the way rounding the other way can.

Only when the legend describes this game. A smallest chip larger than the big blind
means the denominations were never set for these stakes, and rounding a 5c/10c table
up to whole dollars would be the tool doing real damage on the strength of a field
somebody forgot to fill in. Those tables keep exact amounts, and the wrong legend
stays visible rather than being quietly applied. A table with no legend at all is
told nothing about chips and so has nothing applied either.

Verified across five tables: default dollar chips at 1/2 give $4/$5/$7, cent chips at
5c/10c keep $0.20/$0.23/$0.35, five-dollar chips at 5/10 give $20/$25/$35, and both
the stale-legend and no-legend tables are left exact.

The minimum raise is deliberately not rounded. It is what the rules require, and
moving it to suit the chip tray would change what is legal rather than what is
convenient.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-02 00:05:26 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 09eac536b5 Make the pot button offer a pot-sized raise
The raise pad worked its quick amounts out as "the current bet plus the pot as it
stands". That leaves out the raiser's own call, which is in the pot before the raise
is measured off it, so every amount came out short. Measured pre-flop at 1/2:

    offered:  Min $4    ½ pot $4    Pot $5
    correct:  Min $4    ½ pot $4.50  Pot $7

A pot raise there is: call the $2, which makes the pot $5, then raise $5. And the
half-pot was so short it clamped up to the minimum and sat next to the Min button
showing the same $4 twice, which is how it went unnoticed — it looked like a table
where those two happened to coincide.

"Pot" is not a suggestion. It is a definite number players say out loud, and a dealer
tapping the button that claims to be it should be recording what was actually said.

The rule moves into Betting.potRaiseTo, next to the other rules and testable on its
own, rather than living as arithmetic inside a DOM renderer:

    raise to = the current bet + (pot + what they owe) × fraction

Facing no bet it comes out as a plain pot-sized bet, because both the bet and the
amount owed are zero. Facing a bet it comes out as three times the bet plus the dead
money, which is the shape a player checks it against.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 23:51:41 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 8efc14f61f Show the banker the amount to count out, not just whether the player is up
The standings had a column headed "Cash out" and it did not hold an amount to pay.
It held the difference against the player's buy-in. Measured on a table where Ann
bought in for $200 and sits behind $340:

    PLAYER   NET   CASH OUT
    Ann      $0     +$140

She is handed $340. The column called "Cash out" says $140, under a heading that
invites reading it as the payout, at the exact moment somebody is counting money onto
the table. The number a banker's hands actually follow — what the player is holding —
was computed all along and written to the CSV, and never shown on screen.

Three columns now, and they say what they are: Player, Chips, Up/down. Chips is a
plain amount and never signed, because it is a quantity of money to hand over. Up/down
keeps the sign and the colour, because it is a result. The two differ by exactly the
buy-in, which is asserted rather than assumed.

Chips counts what is out in the middle for the hand in progress as still theirs, for
the same reason the up/down figure does: the panel is read mid-hand constantly and a
stack that drops by the size of a bet looks like money going missing.

Net — won less paid in, from the hand log — comes off the screen to make room. It is
the weakest of the three: it only moves when a pot is resolved through the wizard, so
at a table where the dealer settles pots by hand it reads $0 all night beside two
columns that don't, and up/down already answers "how are they doing". It stays in the
CSV export, which loses nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 23:36:14 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 c70cb150db 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
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 e9bc9afcdb Seat a player when the dealer names one, and stop hiding the bar on a full table
The first thing anybody does with this tool is seat the table, and it didn't work.
Measured on a fresh table: click a seat, type a name, repeat six times — six names on
the felt, six seats still not in the hand, and no action bar at all. No "post blinds
and deal", no explanation, nothing to press. Six people at the table and a blank
screen with no way forward.

Three things were wrong and each hid the next.

Naming a chair and dealing that chair in were separate acts. Putting a name on an
empty chair is somebody sitting down, so it now deals them in. Only a chair that was
empty — no name and nobody in it: renaming someone who is sitting out is a correction,
not an arrival, and dealing them back in over a typo would be the tool overruling the
dealer.

The action bar hid itself whenever no seat was live, which was written for an empty
felt and caught a named one too. A table with names on it is not an empty table; it's
a table the dealer needs to be told something about.

And the seat editor never redrew the bar. It refreshes narrowly on purpose — a full
render on every keystroke would take the name field out from under the dealer
mid-word — but the bar answers "is there a table here at all", and seating somebody is
exactly what changes that answer. Even ticking "In hand" by hand left the bar hidden
until something else happened to redraw. Verified the fix keeps focus and the caret
where they were, typing a character at a time.

For the states that can still reach it — a table where everyone was sat out, a save
from before naming seated people — the prompt names them and offers "Deal in all 6"
rather than a hunt through six seat editors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 23:08:42 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 9f3d0dce4b Call who shows first at the showdown, instead of leaving the dealer to remember
Every showdown that isn't a fold needs somebody to turn over first, and it is the one
call at the table nobody volunteers for — everyone would rather see a hand than show
one. The tool held both facts the rule needs, who last raised and who sits left of
the button, and said neither. The dealer worked it out from memory while five people
waited, every hand.

The action bar now names the seat and the reason above the resolve button:

    Dee shows first — last to bet or raise.
    Ben shows first — checked round, first left of the button.
    Dee shows first — last to put money in; nobody could bet the river.

The reason is there so the call can be repeated to whoever argues with it, which is
half of what makes it stick.

Three cases, in the order the rule asks them. Somebody bet or raised on the final
round: they show. Nobody did: first live player left of the button. Nobody *could*,
because the chips were already in: it falls to whoever last put money in, on whichever
street that was — "no bet on the final round" isn't a choice anybody made when there
was no round to bet in, so the seat left of the button hasn't earned it.

Aggression is tracked per street and per hand, because those two answers differ
exactly when it matters. A short all-in counts: not reopening the betting is a rule
about who may raise, and says nothing about who shows. Posting a blind doesn't — a
hand limped and checked all the way down has no aggressor at all, which is the case
that goes to the button.

A matching ruling goes in Common rulings, since the dealer will be asked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 22:53:14 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 01f5139740 Let the dealer find one hand in the log instead of scrolling the night
The hand log exists for one moment: somebody at the rail says they won a pot an hour
ago and wants it looked up. A night runs to sixty hands or more and the panel showed
five of them at a time, in a box fixed at 260px whether the dealer was on a phone or
a 27" screen with room for twenty. There was no way to ask for a hand — only to
scroll and read every row.

A filter box over the list now takes a name, an amount or a hand number. Matching is
loose on purpose: "fay" whatever case it's typed in, "190" for a $190 pot or a $190
payout, "$1,90" for the same typed badly, "#12" when the dealer knows the hand and
wants that exact one. Beside it, how much of the night is hidden — "8 of 60" — since
a filter matching one hand otherwise looks like a table that only played one.

The list also takes the room it has: clamp(200px, 42vh, 560px) rather than a flat
260, which is seven or eight rows instead of five on a desktop and no worse on a
phone.

Export stays the whole night, always. A CSV quietly missing the hands scrolled past
would be a record with holes in it and nothing on the file to say so — if a filter is
up when it's exported, the toast says how many went in.

Matching deliberately covers only what the row displays. Searching the full ledger as
well was the first attempt, so the hand that broke somebody could be found under the
loser's name — but the ledger holds everyone who put a chip in, and measured on a
seven-handed night where nobody folded, "Fay" returned 60 of 60. A filter that
searches text the panel doesn't show looks broken even when it's right.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 22:39:55 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 c76ebf4d18 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
2026-09-01 22:27:22 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 cc060b29b8 Keep the big blind moving one player at a time when somebody leaves out of the blinds
Passing the button to the next player is right until a chair between the button and
the blinds empties. Then it pulls the whole blind order forward a place. Measured,
four-handed, button on Ben, blinds Cal and Dee, with Cal cashing out:

    tool:    button Dee, small blind Ann, big blind Ben
    correct: dead button on Cal's chair, small blind Dee, big blind Ann

Ann is never asked for the big blind she owes, and Ben pays one a full orbit early.
That is a real big blind out of a real stack, and it happens every time somebody
stands up out of the blinds — which in a cash game is constantly. It is also the
kind of thing the dealer gets blamed for, because the tool is the thing everyone at
the table is reading position off.

The dead button rule holds the rotation to the seats for one hand instead of to the
players. The button follows the small blind round, which at a table with nobody
missing is the same next-player-along it always was; when that player has gone the
button rests on their empty chair for a hand, and when the big blind has gone no
small blind is posted. Either way the big blind advances exactly one player, which
is the whole point of it.

Worked out from who actually posted last hand rather than from the seating as it
stands, because by the time the question is asked the people it turns on are the
ones who have left. Heads-up is exempt — the button is the small blind there and
there is no position to leave dead — as is a table too sparse to have a rotation to
hold to, and a dealer who moves the button or names a blind by hand overrules it.

Both dead positions are said out loud rather than left to look like a fault: the
deal prompt explains them in a sentence, and the dead button goes hollow and dashed
so the felt agrees with the words.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 22:04:57 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 3149b48c14 Remember the pots the dealer throws away, so the bank check stops blaming them
Starting the next hand with money still in the middle destroys it. The tool asks
first, and says afterwards how much went. Nothing wrote it down, though, so when
the bank check came round at cash-out it saw only that chips were gone:

    $5 more cash than chips in play. Someone has paid for chips they haven't
    been given.

and settle-up told the dealer to fix it before anyone cashed out. Both were
accusing the dealer of a miscount for money the tool itself had removed, at the
dealer's instruction, minutes earlier — the one kind of shortfall that isn't a
mistake, reported as the one kind that is.

Discards are now recorded on the table as they happen (undoably, with the rest
of the Next Hand step), the reconciliation counts them alongside the chips, and
the panel shows a "Taken off the table" line so the number is visible rather
than merely subtracted. A genuine shortfall on top of a discard still reports,
at its true size — the discard accounts for its own $5 and not a cent more.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 20:27:46 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 cb057b5159 Stop the think-clock claiming things it can't know
The clock beside the acting player told two lies, in opposite directions.

Refresh mid-hand and it restarts at 0:00. The clock lives in memory, so a reload wipes
it, and the bar then says the player has just started thinking when they might have
been in the tank for two minutes. It is the one number in the bar whose whole job is to
tell a dealer when to nudge somebody, and a refresh reset it to "no need".

It cannot know that time -- the action moved before this session existed -- so it does
not guess. It shows a dash until the action next moves, and says why if you hover:

  "The action was already on this seat when the page loaded, so there's nothing to
   time from yet. The clock starts when the action next moves."

The moment the action moves it is measuring something it saw, and it counts from zero
again.

And past an hour it read "65:03". A table left open on a hand really does get there --
the state survives a refresh by design -- and sixty-five minutes written as though it
were minutes and seconds is a number the eye gets wrong. It reads 1:05:03 now.

Checked in the browser rather than reasoned about: dealt in this session it counts 0:00
then 0:02; refreshed mid-hand it shows the dash and keeps showing it rather than
drifting up from an invented zero; one action later it is back to a real 0:00; and with
the clock wound forward it reads 1:05:04 with the slow-tank styling still applied.

5 tests (283 total) on the formatting, including that minutes are padded once there are
hours and not before, and that a day reads 25:00:00 rather than wrapping.

Also checked and correct already: a backgrounded tab does not lose time -- four minutes
away reads 4:01 on return, because the clock is a timestamp difference rather than a
count of ticks -- and the timer disappears entirely once the hand is over.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 20:06:42 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 ab92259e3e Put the dealer's own notes in the file they hand over
The CSV export carries the hands, the standings and the settle-up. It carried neither
of the two places a dealer types context.

Each seat can hold custom fields -- "IOU: $20 to Ann", "Seat rent: paid to 2am",
"Venmo: @ann" -- and the table has a notes box for the rest: side bets, a high-hand
promo, who owes the box from last week. Both are typed precisely because they matter to
settling up, and both were visible only inside the tool. The one place the context was
written down was the one place it could not leave.

Now the standings rows end with a Notes column carrying that seat's fields, and the
table's notes go in a section of their own at the end.

  Player,Paid In,Won,Net,Bought In,Chips Now,Up/Down,Notes
  Ann,20.00,60.00,40.00,200.00,150.00,-50.00,Seat rent: paid to 2am; Venmo: @ann
  Ben,20.00,0.00,-20.00,200.00,200.00,0.00,IOU: $20 to Ann
  Cal,20.00,0.00,-20.00,200.00,250.00,50.00,

  Table Notes
  "High-hand promo until midnight.
  Mo owes the box $15, from last week."

Notes go last so the money columns keep the shape a spreadsheet expects, and the
multi-line note is quoted as one cell rather than becoming rows that read as more
players.

An existing test caught this, correctly

"every money cell parses as a number" asserted that every column after the name was
numeric, and a Notes column is text by definition. The invariant it protects is real --
the file exists so somebody can total a column -- so it now names the six money columns
and checks those, rather than "everything after the first". That is the assertion it
always meant.

9 tests (278 total): a seat's fields ride along, the money columns keep their order, a
seat with nothing written gets an empty cell rather than the word undefined, a blank
field does not leave a stray colon, a multi-line note survives as one cell, no notes
means no section rather than an empty heading, and asking for the standings does not
change the seats.

Driven through the real Export CSV button, not just the function: the downloaded file
carries both seats' notes and the table's. Audit and contrast clean, no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 19:52:20 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 65f201cdfd Show each stack as the chips that make it
The chip legend has only ever read chips *into* an amount -- counting what is in front
of somebody. Colouring up at the end of a level is the same question backwards, and it
is the one the dealer answers with a rack in one hand: $205 is two hundreds and a five.
So is counting a stack out for a player who is leaving.

The arithmetic already existed. Payouts have been shown in chips since #73; this points
the same function at the stacks.

  Stacks in chips
    Ann — $205        2×$100, 1×$5
    Ben — $1,337      2×$500, 3×$100, 1×$25, 2×$5, 2×$1
    Cal — $40         1×$25, 3×$5
    Eve — $88         3×$25, 2×$5, 3×$1
    Fay — $500        1×$500

Sits under the chip legend, because that is where the denominations it works from are
set, and it only appears when there is both a legend to work from and somebody with
chips. A table that never set its chip colours up gets nothing, which is what it had
before. A seat on zero is left out rather than listed as nothing.

Driven at five sizes across touch and pointer contexts, with a 26-character name and a
$1,337,000 stack: no row spills, no page overflow, contrast clean, layout audit clean
but for the landscape phone already known from #63, no console errors. Every breakdown
checked by hand against its total -- 500+200+75+2 = 777 and so on.

The breakdown itself is covered by the twelve tests from #73; what is new here is which
seats are listed, which the browser run covers: with a legend and stacks it lists five
of six seats, with the legend emptied it disappears, and with every stack zeroed it
disappears. 269 tests still passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 19:36:29 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 d297c1a2c9 Close two blind spots in the contrast check
Last change found a folded player's stack sitting at 2.22:1, hidden for twenty rounds
behind an exemption. So I went looking for the other exemptions rather than waiting for
the next one to surface. There were two, and neither is hiding a live fault today --
which is worth saying plainly, because it means this is a fix to the instrument and not
to the tool.

Leaf elements only

    if (el.children.length > 0) return;   // leaf text only

An element's own text stopped being measured the moment a child was added to it. The
undo control went that way two changes ago, the day a <kbd> was appended to it: its
label became invisible to this check with no sign that anything had changed. Now it
measures an element's own text nodes and leaves the descendants to their own turn,
against their own colours.

aria-hidden as a contrast exemption

The bets layer is aria-hidden because the amounts on the chips are already announced by
the seat and the action bar, and repeating them would be noise. That is a good reason
to hide them from a screen reader and no reason at all to stop checking whether a
sighted dealer can read them -- and the chips are exactly what the felt is read for.
Two different questions were being answered by one attribute.

Nothing is exempt now. If something genuinely decorative turns up, it should say so in
its own words rather than borrowing an attribute that means something else. The
watermark that the exemption was written for is gone as of the change before last.

What the widened check finds

Nothing. Zero offenders at six viewports across touch and pointer contexts, and with
the sidebar panels and the rulings sheet open. Measured from rendered pixels, the two
things that had been invisible are comfortable: the bet chip amounts read 12.65 to
13.74:1 and the undo label 8.06:1.

So the fix is proved by injection instead. Colouring the bet chip amounts #3a3a3a now
reports three offenders at 1.80:1, and colouring the undo control #2f2f2f reports it at
1.13:1. Neither was reported before.

269 tests still passing, no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 19:21:06 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 f0cfd24647 Make the seats that are out of the hand readable again
A folded player's stack measured 2.22:1.

The contrast audit has been reporting clean for twenty rounds, and it never looked at
these seats: the check skipped anything with opacity below 0.99 as "faded on purpose",
and folded and sat-out seats faded their whole box -- 0.5 and 0.58. Opacity on a box
fades the text you still have to read along with the box you wanted to push back.

Measured off rendered pixels, 11.5px text, where AA asks 4.5:1:

                  name    stack
  live            13.28   4.75
  folded           4.75   2.22
  sitting out      7.00   3.22

A folded player's stack is not decoration. It is what they will have next hand and the
answer to "how much has Ben got?", and at 2.22 it was barely there.

So the box recedes and the text does not: a flatter, darker background and a muted
border, with name and stack colours that measure.

                  name    stack
  live            13.28   4.75   (unchanged)
  folded           7.60   4.55
  sitting out      7.60   4.71

Taking the fade away took the signal with it, which the screenshot showed and the
numbers did not: a sat-out seat became almost indistinguishable from a live one. A
folded seat still says so twice, with a red border and a line through the name, but
sitting out had only faintness. It wears a dashed edge now -- the same thing an empty
chair wears, which is right, because neither is in this hand, and the name and stack
tell the two apart.

The same fault, found once the audit stopped hiding it

The key hints on the action bar are 9.6px and were measuring 2.97 to 3.33 against
their buttons -- a fade chosen for looks pushing text a dealer is meant to read under
the threshold, exactly like the seats. They are 4.93 to 7.63 now, still quieter than
the labels they sit beside.

And the audit no longer passes over faded text in silence. Something invisible is still
exempt, since there is nothing to read at zero opacity, but anything in between is
reported as unmeasured -- a number nobody checked is not the same as a number that is
fine. It now lists five: the four key caps and the disabled Export CSV button, which is
disabled and therefore genuinely exempt.

269 tests still passing. Contrast offenders zero, layout audit clean, no console
errors; the folded seat's red line-through and the sat-out seat's dashed edge both
confirmed in cropped screenshots rather than assumed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 19:10:06 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 95fd46ee99 Take the broken wordmark off the felt
The felt carried "TEXAS HOLD'EM" across its middle, and the pot badge sat on top of
it. Measured at every seat count from two to ten, the middle 20% of the word was
covered, so the table read

  TEXAS  LD'EM

That is not a watermark, it is a rendering fault, and it looked like one.

I tried to move it before removing it. Four placements, measured across six viewports
and two seat counts each, as the share of the word covered by a seat, a bet chip or
the pot badge:

                        desktop   tablet   phone     phone     landscape
                        1280x900  768x1024 390x844   360x640   844x390
  centred (before)        20%      20%      20%       20%        20%
  30% down, full size      0-7%     0-12%   43-60%    48-70%     20-23%
  20% down, smaller        0%       0%      40-67%    53-70%     40%
  78% down, smaller        0%       0%      77-97%    90-100%*   27-37%

  * and off the oval entirely at 360px

Desktop and tablet can be made clean. A phone cannot: below 900px the felt is square,
and a square felt with six to nine seats has no clear horizontal band wide enough for
a word. The best phone result of any placement was 40% covered.

So it is gone rather than special-cased per device for a decoration. The felt still has
its gradient, its rim, the inner gold line and its shadow to be a table with, and the
page header says "Texas Hold'em Dealer" a few inches above it.

The reasoning and the numbers are left in the CSS where the element used to be, so
whoever thinks of adding one back finds out what happened first.

269 tests still passing. Seven viewports: contrast clean, layout audit clean everywhere
but the landscape phone already known from #63, no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 18:54:52 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 4cc8faf8cb Notice when the same table is open twice
Opening the tool in a second tab -- tapping the bookmark again rather than hunting for
the tab you already had -- silently throws away whatever the first one is doing.

Each tab holds its own copy in memory and each save writes the whole table, so the
second one to act wins. Driven with two tabs on one profile:

  tab A: deal, and Ann calls    stored -> bettingOpen true, committed [0,1,2,2]
  tab B: type a name in seat 5  stored -> bettingOpen false, committed [0,0,0,0]

The deal, the blinds and the call are gone, and neither tab said anything. That is the
same silent shape as the save and load failures either side of this change.

The browser already tells us: a storage event fires in every other tab when the key
changes, and never in the one that wrote. So a tab that sees its table move underneath
it now says so, once, with the way out attached:

  toast:  "This table is open in another tab. Whichever acts last wins."  [Reload]
  panel:  "This table is open in another tab, and both are writing to it — whichever
           acts last wins, so work done in the other one can vanish. Close one, then
           reload this tab to pick up the table as it stands."

Watched rather than merged, deliberately. Replacing the table under a dealer's hands
in the middle of a hand would be its own hazard, and reloading is the only resolution
that does not throw somebody's work away -- so it is offered rather than taken.

6 tests (269 total): a write from elsewhere is noticed, another app's key and our own
recovery key are not our business, ten writes produce one warning, watching twice
listens once, no listener is not an error, and no window at all is not an error.

Driven with two live tabs: both quiet at first, A deals and B warns with the reload
offer, A stays quiet about its own writes, two more actions in A add no further toasts
in B, and reloading B picks up A's table -- bettingOpen true, committed [2,1,2,2] --
with the warning cleared. Audit and contrast clean, no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 18:35:27 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 cfb83a2ba6 Don't quietly write over a save that couldn't be read
Last change made a failing save say so. This is the other direction, and it turned out
to be worse.

load() is well defended -- try/catch, a shape check, sensible fallbacks -- and every
one of those paths ends in `return this.createDefault()`. So an unreadable save becomes
an empty table. Driven with a save truncated to 70% of its length, the way an
interrupted write leaves one:

  1762 bytes stored, 1233 after truncating
  loaded: 0 named seats, hand #1 instead of #34
  toast: none.  warning: none.  anything on the page: no.

A dealer mid-session sees an empty felt and cannot tell whether they mis-tapped Reset,
whether the browser lost the night, or what.

And then the first edit destroys the evidence. I typed a name into a seat and storage
went from the 1233 unreadable bytes to 2549 bytes of fresh default state. Whatever a
person could have picked out of that JSON -- the names, the buy-ins, the standings --
was gone one tap after the tool decided it could not read it.

Now the unreadable value is moved aside to its own key before the fallback, and the
table says what happened:

  toast:  "The saved table couldn't be read, so this one started empty."
  panel:  "The saved table couldn't be read, so this one started empty. The
           unreadable copy has been kept rather than written over."

It is deliberately not offered as a restore. Half a JSON document is not a table, and
pretending otherwise would be worse than an empty one. It just stops being destroyed.

The two warnings share the Session panel line and both can show at once -- a browser
having trouble with storage tends to have it in both directions -- with the load
message first, because "why is my table empty" is the question the dealer is standing
there asking.

8 tests (263 total): nothing stored is a new table rather than a failure, a good save
loads clean, a truncated one is reported, valid JSON of the wrong shape counts too, the
copy is kept, a later save does not touch it, the listener fires once across three
reads, and storage with no room to keep the copy is not a crash -- which is exactly the
storage most likely to hand back half a value in the first place.

Driven through the UI: warning and toast on a corrupted save, the set-aside copy still
1233 bytes intact after editing a seat, and nothing shown at all on a healthy table.

One audit correction rides along. The collapsed-column check measured inside hidden
elements, so the standings header -- hidden with its table until somebody buys in --
was reported as three collapsed columns on every empty table. It skips hidden subtrees
now, and still catches a real one: squeezing a visible column reports the header and
all three rows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 18:22:31 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 4071be5329 Say so when the browser refuses to save
Every save goes through one try/catch, and the catch was empty:

    } catch {
        // Storage full/unavailable (private browsing, etc.) — the table still works
        // for the rest of the session, it just won't survive a refresh.
    }

The comment is accurate and the behaviour is right -- the chips have already moved in
memory and refusing to continue would be worse. What was missing is anybody being
told. Driven with setItem throwing: two saves failed, no toast, nothing on the page,
and a refresh came back to before the hand was dealt with the dealer none the wiser.

That is the same shape of fault the bank reconciliation exists for. Silent until it is
too late to act on, and the way you find out is the last two players cashing out.

Now it says so twice, in the two places that suit the two timescales.

A toast the first time, and only the first time -- a dealer taps this bar thirty times
a hand and does not need thirty warnings. Measured: four failed saves, one toast.

  "This table isn't being saved — refreshing would lose it. Keep this tab open."

And a standing line at the top of the Session panel, because a toast is a moment and
this is a fact about the rest of the night. The raise pad dismisses toasts, and the one
warning that must not be missed is not the one to leave to a toast.

  "This table isn't being saved — the browser refused. It'll keep working, but
   closing or refreshing this tab loses the session. Export CSV below keeps a copy."

Amber, like the bank check's disagreement, because both mean the same thing: your
record of the night is wrong and you can still do something about it. The export is
named because it is the thing that helps.

6 tests (255 total): a good save reports success and leaves no mark, a failing one
reports failure rather than throwing, the listener fires exactly once across twenty
failures, it is handed the error so the reason can be reported later, a failing save
still does not stop the table, and no listener at all is not an error.

Driven through the UI with setItem throwing: hidden while saving works, toast on the
first failure, zero further toasts across three more actions, the panel line present
and readable. Contrast clean, layout audit clean, no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 18:08:05 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 8a7d7b09bf Print the two shortcuts a dealer had no way to find
Seven keys drive this tool. Five of them are printed on the control they press -- F on
Fold, C on Call, R on Raise, the return arrow on Deal and on Raise to, esc on Cancel.
Two were printed on nothing at all:

  A   opens the amount pad on All-in
  U   takes back the last action

A dealer who learned F, C and R from the buttons had no way to discover the other two
existed. They are the two worth knowing: A is the fastest action in the tool and U is
the one that saves a misclick.

Both are on their controls now. The key lookup matches any of a button's classes, so
the raise pad's four quick amounts can share one class for their looks while only
All-in carries a key.

And a legend in the sidebar, listing all seven with what they do, built from the same
list the handlers are keyed off. There is a test that every key in the map has a line
in the legend and that every line names a key that really is bound -- a shortcut with
no line is one nobody can find, which is the whole bug this fixes.

The panel is hidden on a touch device. A phone has no keys to press, and it is the
same pointer question the touch-target rules ask rather than a guess about width.

One thing I broke and fixed on the way. .actionKey pins itself to the top-right corner
of a big action button. The undo control is a 30px pill with overflow hidden and no
positioning context, so the U escaped it and floated above the action bar -- visible in
the screenshot before I looked properly. It has its own inline class now, checked at
six sizes: the cap sits inside the pill and inside the bar, and the pill is not
clipped.

5 tests (249 total). Driven at six sizes across touch and pointer contexts: the undo
pill shows U, the raise pad shows A on All-in and nothing on Min, half pot and Pot, the
legend lists all seven, and it is display:none on a phone. Contrast clean, layout audit
clean but for the landscape phone already known from #63, no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 17:52:52 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 ebf22e3153 Shorten the rulings index to the words a dealer would say
Last change added an index to the rulings sheet and I wrote down what it cost: 342px
at the top of a 390px-wide sheet, so a dealer reading straight through scrolls past
the whole thing first. That was an honest trade at the time. It is also fixable.

The index was labelled with the section headings, which are sentences -- "A short
all-in doesn't reopen the betting" -- so nine of them stacked one per row. A dealer
hunting for that ruling is looking for the words "short all-in", not the sentence.

  Misdeal          Board card early    Out of turn
  Short all-in     Uncalled bet        Oversized chip
  Minimum raise    Odd chip            String bet

  phone       342px -> 143px   9 rows -> 3
  desktop      ~200 -> 70px            -> 2
  landscape          -> 94px           -> 2

The first ruling now starts 309px into the sheet on a phone rather than 440.

Each short label lives on its own section as data-short, next to the heading it
shortens, and the index falls back to the heading when there is not one -- so a ruling
added later still appears, still without anyone having to write it twice. The full
sentence stays as the button's aria-label, so the short label never costs a screen
reader the heading.

Checked at four sizes across touch and pointer contexts: nine labels, nine aria-labels,
every chip 44px on touch, jumping still lands and focuses the right heading, contrast
clean, no console errors. 244 tests still passing.

Also looked at, and left alone: the card picker refuses a card already dealt --
disabled, titled "Already dealt to Ann" -- and every one of its 52 buttons clears 44px.
A messy nine-seat table with 25/50 blinds, two folded players, a busted seat, accented
and hyphenated names, a $125,000 stack and a filled notes field audits clean at every
size but the landscape phone already known from #63.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 17:36:37 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 f0994a8aed Get to the right ruling in one tap, and cover the string bet
The rulings sheet is opened mid-argument, with players waiting. It was eight rulings
of prose in a row with no way in. Reaching the last one meant scrolling:

  1.6 screens on a desktop
  2.1 on a phone
  3.5 on a phone held sideways

A dealer looking for the odd-chip rule had to read past seven others to find it.

There is an index across the top now, one chip per ruling, and tapping one scrolls its
section into view and puts the keyboard and a screen reader on its heading. Built from
the sections rather than written out beside them, so a ruling added later turns up in
the index without anyone having to remember to add it twice.

And the missing ruling

I went looking for what home games actually argue about rather than guessing, and the
answer that kept coming back alongside misdeals -- which were already here -- was the
string bet. It was the one common dispute the sheet had nothing to say about.

  Betting in one motion - the string bet

  A bet is whatever goes in on the first trip to the stack, unless the amount was
  said out loud first. Reaching back for more chips without having said "raise" is a
  string bet, and only the first motion stands. Saying the number is always enough on
  its own: "raise to sixty" binds whatever order the chips arrive in.

  It's the rule home games invoke most and enforce least, and both are fine -- the
  point is that a player can't watch the table react and then decide how much to bet.
  Say it, or push it all at once.

That second paragraph is deliberate. The sheet's whole stance is that house rules win,
so a ruling that tells a home game it must enforce something would be the wrong voice.

What it costs: the index is 342px at the top of a 390px-wide sheet, so a dealer who
wants to read straight through now scrolls past it first. That is the trade -- it is a
jump table you use once and then read, and the alternative was scrolling blind.

Driven through at four sizes across touch and pointer contexts: nine rulings, nine
index entries, every one of them 44px on touch, tapping the last one lands it on screen
and focused. Focus stays inside the sheet across fourteen tabs, Enter on a chip jumps,
Escape closes, and opening it three times still builds nine entries rather than
twenty-seven. Contrast clean, no console errors, 244 tests still passing.

Sources: cardplayerlifestyle.com and pokernews on string bets; the sheet still follows
the TDA rules it cites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 17:21:40 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 ddb3907ace Say the payout in chips, not just in money
"Ann - $135" is the answer to the arithmetic. The dealer's actual job at that moment
is working out that $135 is a black, a green and two reds, while four people watch
them do it.

The chip legend has known the denominations all along. It was only being used to read
chips *into* an amount -- counting a seat's stack -- and never to turn an amount back
into chips.

  Final Payouts
    Ann - $135
    1x$100, 1x$25, 2x$5

Largest first, which is greedy and so not optimal for an arbitrary set of values. Poker
chips are not arbitrary: every real set is canonical -- each denomination divides the
next, 1/5/25/100/500 -- and greedy is exactly optimal on those. A dealer who invents a
3-and-7 chip set still gets a valid answer, possibly one chip longer than it needed to
be, which is a fair trade for not solving a knapsack in a modal.

Two cases where saying nothing is the right answer, and one where it is not.

A table with no chip legend gets the amount on its own -- it has not told us its
denominations, so there is no advice to give. But a legend that exists and cannot reach
the amount does say so: "$3 no chip covers" when the smallest chip is $5. Half a dollar
in a dollar-chip game is the dealer's problem to solve and they can only solve it if
they are told, so it is never rounded away.

12 tests (244 total): the breakdown adds up to the amount across eight amounts, cent
chips make cent amounts exactly, a jumbled legend still pays largest first, the colour
comes along for a future caller, and the two no-advice cases are told apart from the
cannot-reach one.

Driven through a real all-in hand at four sizes: $135 reads "1x$100, 1x$25, 2x$5" and
a tournament-sized $1,350 reads "2x$500, 3x$100, 2x$25", fitting without spill down to
360px. With the legend emptied the line disappears and the payout stands alone.
Contrast clean, no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 17:08:49 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 3fe16fa7f2 Let a phone move a player to another seat
The hint under the table has said this on every screen since the gestures went in:

  Tap a seat to edit - double-tap to fold - press and hold for quick actions -
  drag to swap seats.

Three of those work on a phone. The fourth never has. Swapping seats is HTML5
drag-and-drop -- draggable="true", dragstart, drop -- and a touch screen does not
generate drag events at all. So the one clause written in the same breath as "tap"
and "press and hold" was the one thing a thumb could never do.

I found it by dragging seat 1 onto seat 4 with real touch pointer events and watching
nothing happen: no swap, no menu, no error.

Moving a seat is in the long-press menu now, which is the route a thumb already takes
for everything else. "Move to..." replaces the action list with the other chairs, by
number and name, and picking one makes the move:

  Move Ben to...
  Their chips, cards and bet go with them. The button and the blinds stay on the chair.
    Seat 1 - Ann     Seat 3 - Cal     Seat 4 - Dee     Seat 5 - empty ...

That subtitle is the rule, and it is the one a card room uses: the whole seat travels,
while everything naming a position stays put. Somebody who sits down in the big
blind's chair is the big blind.

Driven through on a phone: Ben, small blind, $109 behind with $1 posted, moves to
seat 5 with both numbers; seat 2 goes empty; the button stays on seat 1; the toast
reads "Ben moved to seat 5" and undo puts it all back. Reopening the menu on another
seat shows actions again rather than the chair list it closed on.

The hint tells the truth per device now -- dragging is only mentioned where a mouse
exists. Dragging still works there, checked.

8 tests (232 total): the whole seat moves, the bet moves with it, chips are conserved,
the button and the blinds stay on their chairs, swapping twice is a no-op, and a chair
that is not there is refused rather than swallowed.

One audit fix rides along. The "one dealer button" check counted the empty slot that a
hovered seat deliberately fades in, so it reported two buttons whenever a mouse
happened to rest on the table -- which is most of the time a mouse exists. It ignores
the hovered seat now, and still catches the real fault: with the pre-#62 behaviour put
back it reports six, or five while hovering.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 14:54:03 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 f199148046 A pre-filled amount is a suggestion, so reaching for the box replaces it
Every amount box in this tool opens pre-filled: the raise pad offers the minimum, Add
chips offers a buy-in, the seat editor offers the stack a player already has. A dealer
taps one because they want a different number -- and a tap puts the caret after the
suggestion rather than over it.

Driven on an emulated phone:

  raise pad shows 4      tap, type "60"    -> 460
  add chips shows 200    tap, type "50"    -> 20050
  seat stack shows 200   tap, type "175"   -> 200175

The raise pad is the most time-critical control in the tool, and 460 is a number the
dealer never said. The all-in warning happens to catch that one against a $200 stack;
against a deeper stack it is simply accepted, and the pot is wrong from then on.

Number boxes now select what is in them when they take focus, so the first digit
typed replaces the suggestion.

  raise pad     4 -> "60"
  add chips   200 -> "50"
  seat stack  200 -> "175"
  a name      Cal -> "CalX"

That last line is the point of the rule. Only number boxes: type=number, or the
type=text/inputmode=decimal pair the raise pad uses to get a keypad without spinner
arrows. A name or a note is a thing you edit, and selecting all of it on focus would
be the same mistake pointing the other way.

Delegated from the document rather than wired per field. The raise pad, the add-chips
sheet and the seat editor all rebuild their inputs on every render, and a box added
later should not have to remember to ask for this.

The select is deferred a tick. Doing it inside the focus handler loses the race with
the browser placing its own caret, and the selection collapses again the moment the
tap completes.

10 tests (224 total) on the predicate, including the ones that must stay false --
name, note, colour swatch, checkbox, select, and an input with no type stated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 14:40:04 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 38536a5c0c Ask about the thumb, not the window width
There is a careful touch-target pass in this stylesheet -- 44px fields, 44px delete
buttons, a padded hit area for the rulings link. Every rule in it sits behind
`max-width: 700px`.

A phone held sideways is 844px wide.

So none of that work applied to the device it was written for, half the time. Measured
on an emulated touch device with the sidebar open -- twelve controls under 44px at
844x390 and again at 915x412:

  the rulings link            91x14
  the dedicated-dealer box    13x13
  chip-colour delete          28px wide
  blinds-direction select     32px tall
  five panel headers          38px

The rules are restated against `pointer: coarse`. The width-scoped block keeps its
layout changes -- one column, stacked dialogs -- because those really are about how
much room there is. This is only about what a thumb can hit, so it asks about the
thumb.

  844x390 touch   12 controls under 44px -> 1
  915x412 touch   12 -> 1
  390x844 touch    6 -> 1
  360x640 touch    6 -> 1

The one left is the bare 24x24 checkbox, whose row is 44px tall -- the row is the
target, which is the existing design and the only thing that works for a checkbox.

Two things were too small on every device, not just touch, and are fixed outright.
The panel headers -- the sidebar's entire navigation -- were 38px everywhere, phones
included; the pass below never reached them. And the rulings link was 91x14, which
misses the 24px minimum with a mouse as well as with a thumb. Under 24px anywhere is
now zero, at every size measured.

Two traps worth recording. A <summary> only draws its disclosure triangle while it is
display: list-item, so the headers get there on padding rather than a flex box. And a
<summary> is content-box, so `min-height: 44px` was *added* to the padding and gave
71px -- the same box-model trap as the header buttons one PR ago, in a different tag.
Both are stated in the CSS where the next person will hit them.

214 tests still passing; layout audit and contrast clean at six sizes across touch and
pointer contexts; no console errors; panels still toggle and the triangle is still
there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 14:24:07 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 286a924fe4 Give buttons and links the same box
The header on a portrait phone was 227px -- a quarter of the screen -- before the
table started, and at 360x640 the bottom of the table sat 16px behind the action bar
with the gesture hint off screen entirely.

Chasing where the pixels went turned up something better than a tight header.

.holdemBtn is worn by three <button>s and two <a>s. The class never stated a box
model, and the browser does not give those two tags the same one: Chromium makes a
button border-box and leaves a link content-box. So `min-height: 46px` on the header
row came out as 46px on the buttons and 46 + 16 padding + 2 border = 64px on the
links -- and a flex row is as tall as its tallest item, so all five became 64px.

A 46px touch target was costing 64px of screen, twice over, because the header wraps
to two rows on a phone.

  390x844   header 227 -> 191   buttons 64 -> 46
  412x915   header 227 -> 191
  430x932   header 227 -> 191
  360x640   header 173 -> 137   table clearance -16px -> +20px, so the felt now
                                clears the action bar instead of running under it

The other half is the one I did not go looking for. The 46px floor only exists under
the 700px breakpoint, and the accidental stretch was the only reason anything above
it was big enough to press. Once the boxes agree, a landscape phone -- wider than the
breakpoint, still a thumb -- would have been left with 42px buttons. So the 44px
floor is stated on the class itself. Measured across the page:

  844x390   13 .holdemBtn under 44px -> 0
  915x412   13 -> 0
  1280x900  13 -> 0

That is every button on the page, not just the header: the panel buttons, the pot
wizard, the confirm dialogs.

What it costs: 844x390 loses 2px of table clearance, -5 to -7, because its header
grows with the buttons. That size already has the bottom seat behind the bar (#63),
and 13 unpressable controls was the worse of the two problems.

214 tests still passing; layout audit and contrast clean at 9 sizes; no console
errors; every header button still hit-testable at 46x121 and 46x112.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 14:14:04 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 3e9e2e899d Stop the big blind's own chip from covering the BB badge
On a phone the badge marking the big blind was not hard to read. It was not there.
The chip showing their $2 sat on top of it.

Both live on the same spoke. Bets sit between a seat and the pot, so on the bottom
half of the ring the chip comes down onto the seat's top edge, which is exactly where
the badge was -- and the chip is a layer above it.

  390x844, six seats:  badge 24x12 = 288px², chip covered 196px² of it
                       badge z-index 2, chip z-index 3
                       the badge's own centre hit-tested as the chip

So seats on the bottom of the ring wear their badge underneath instead, on the edge
the pot is not on. And badges now outrank chips regardless, so a layout this does not
anticipate cannot hide one again: which blind a seat is posting is the one thing on
that puck nothing else on the felt repeats, while a bet chip's amount is on the seat's
own total line as well.

Measured across 20 table sizes -- badge area lost to bet chips:

  430x932, 390x844, 360x640 at 2 and 6 seats    35% -> 0%
  8 seats                                        4-12%, unchanged: the blinds land
                                                 on the top arc there, where the
                                                 badge was already out of the way
  desktop and tablet                             0% either way, more room

Two other placements were measured and rejected. Tucking the badge inside the seat's
bottom edge put 38-42% of it on the seat's own stack line at every size including
desktop -- trading a chip covering the badge for the badge covering the money. Leaving
it on top and only raising its z-index worked everywhere, but leaves the badge sitting
on the chip rather than clear of it; the z-index is kept as a backstop, the move is
what does the work.

What it costs

At 360x640 heads-up the bottom seat's badge moves down into the action bar, where it
was visible before. That seat is already substantially behind the bar at that size --
the narrow layout reserves scroll room rather than capping the felt, which #63
measured and settled on -- but this change is what put the badge there, so I am
saying so rather than leaving it to be found. Every other size and seat count is
clean, including 360x640 at six and nine seats.

An instrument note, because it nearly became a finding. Bet chips are
pointer-events: none above 900px and auto below it, so elementFromPoint reports them
as covering things on a phone and as invisible on a desktop. The 35% figures above
are geometric overlap and a cropped screenshot of the rendered pixels, not hit tests.
Three "chip covered by DIV" results I saw earlier were that quirk and are not real.

214 tests still passing; layout audit and contrast clean at 8 sizes x 3 seat counts;
no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 14:00:34 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 96cd7684f0 Buying chips puts you back in the game
Handing over cash and being dealt in are one event at a real table. Here they were
two, and the second one was easy to miss.

Last change deals a busted player around until they rebuy. So the dealer takes their
money, taps Add chips, and:

  Ben:  inHand false -> false     stack 0 -> 100     buyIns 100 -> 200
  toast: "Ben added $100."

He has chips, he is not in the game, and nothing on screen says so. He gets skipped
hand after hand until somebody notices and finds "Deal in" in the seat menu.

Now the buy-in does both, and says which:

  mid-hand:      "Ben added $100 - in from the next hand."   inHand true, folded true
  between hands: "Ben added $100 - dealt in."                inHand true, folded false

Folding him for the hand in progress is the rule "Deal in" already follows -- you
can't buy into a pot you have not been paying for -- so the two doors into the game
behave the same way. It is one undoable step: undo takes back the chips, the cash
record and the seat.

Not for a seat that was sat out while holding chips. That is a dealer who sat someone
out on purpose and is topping them up, and dealing them back in would be the tool
guessing at something it was not told. The test reads the seat's own recorded stack
rather than stackOf(), which substitutes the table's starting stack and would make a
seat with nothing recorded look like it was holding chips.

  busted, sat out          -> back in
  new chair, no stack yet  -> in
  sat out holding $100     -> stays out
  already in the hand      -> nothing to do, including an all-in at zero chips

8 tests (214 total).

Driven through the UI: the rebuy, the toast, the next hand actually dealing him in
(4 players, live 4), and undo putting all three fields back.

Found on the way, not fixed here

Buying in on a seat with no stack of its own credits the table's starting stack *plus*
the buy-in. A new player handed $100 on a table with a $100 default ends up with $200
of chips against $100 of recorded cash.

I am leaving it because the right answer is genuinely unclear and it is not mine to
pick. A blank stack means "no chips recorded" to the bank check, which counts it as
zero, and "the table's starting stack" to the betting code and the felt, which show
it as $100. Both are defensible for their own job, and which one a buy-in should
follow decides whether a casual dealer who never types stacks gets $200 or $100 after
a rebuy. Worth saying out loud rather than quietly picking one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 13:39:56 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 1af82dfddf Call a bet a bet and a raise a raise
The bar decided which word to use from what the acting player still owes. That gets
the big blind's option backwards -- they owe nothing, so it offered "Bet", but their
own blind is a live bet and putting more in is a raise. And it gets the other half
wrong too: open the pad to make a first bet on the flop and the confirm button said
"Raise to", then wrote "Ann's raise to $10" into the undo control for it.

  preflop, action back to the big blind
    was:  Fold | Check | Bet        pad: "Raise to"
    now:  Fold | Check | Raise      pad: "Raise to"
  flop, nobody has bet
    was:  Fold | Check | Bet        pad: "Raise to"   undo: "Ann's raise to $10"
    now:  Fold | Check | Bet        pad: "Bet"        undo: "Ann's bet of $10"

The arithmetic was always right -- minRaiseTo returns two big blinds for the big
blind's option and one for an opening bet, and I checked both before touching
anything. This is only what it is called. For a tool a dealer announces the action
from, that is not a small thing: a dealer who says "bet" when the big blind puts more
in gets corrected by the table.

The test is whether there is a live bet to raise, not whether this player owes
anything, and it is one helper rather than a condition written out five times.

The warnings follow the same word. Under-minimum with a bet in front of you leaves
you calling it; with an empty pot there is nothing to call:

  "$3 is under the $4 minimum. A legal raise is $4 or more -- otherwise it's a
   call, or all-in."
  "$1 is under the $2 minimum. A legal bet is $2 or more -- otherwise it's a
   check, or all-in."

Also the field's screen-reader label, which announced "Raise to amount" for a bet.

8 tests (206 total), including a table playing without blinds -- which opens with a
bet, and is the one preflop case where the old condition happened to be right.

Driven through the UI at seven viewports in both spots: every label correct, contrast
clean, no console errors.

One thing found and deliberately not touched. Fuzzing 40 hands with random actions
and rebuys -- chips stayed conserved to the cent throughout, no negative stacks, and
the acting seat was always a seat that could act -- turned up one disagreement:
isStreetComplete returns false during an all-in run-out where one player still has
chips and hasn't acted, while actingSeatIndex is correctly null. It has no symptom,
because the bar picks its layout from actingSeatIndex and shows "Deal Turn" as it
should. Changing a betting-round predicate with no observable fault behind it is a
worse trade than leaving it written down.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 13:23:02 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 2cc2c66976 Deal around a player who busted and hasn't rebought
The most ordinary thing that happens in a home game: somebody stacks off, and they
don't buy back in that second. The table dealt them in anyway, and the result was a
hand nobody could finish.

Three players, two of them busted:

  bar before dealing:
    "Pot $0 | 3 players | All-in - running out the board (3 players)
     | Cal posts $1, Ann posts $2 | Post blinds & deal"
  after dealing:
    Cal posted nothing -- no chips to post with
    Ann posted $2 and was asked to check or bet against her own money
    liveSeats 3, isStreetComplete false, isHandOver false

Every line of that is wrong. It announced a board being run out over a felt with no
cards on it, promised a small blind from a seat that couldn't post one, took it from
nobody, and then sat on a hand with no way forward.

So a seat with no chips and nothing in the pot is dealt around. Their seat, name and
buy-in record are untouched -- sat out, not folded, because they didn't muck anything
-- and adding chips puts them straight back in the next hand.

  four players, Ben busted, button on Ann:
    "3 players | Cal posts $1, Dee posts $2
     | Ben has no chips - sitting out this hand. | Post blinds & deal"
    -> Ben inHand false, folded false; blinds exactly as promised; Ann to act

Said before it happens, for the same reason the button move is: a dealer shouldn't
find out from the felt. And the preview computes it on a view of the table rather
than by changing it, so the promise and the deal ask the same question -- the fault
these two lines exist to prevent.

When it can't be dealt at all, it says who has to buy in rather than pretending it's
a seating problem:

  "Only Ann has chips - Ben and Cal need to buy in."
  "Nobody at the table has chips left. Add a buy-in to deal."

Two smaller things fall out. The run-out banner is now gated on the betting actually
being open -- before the deal, a table of busted players is indistinguishable from a
table of all-ins to that test. And the bar's player count reads the table as it will
be dealt, so someone waiting on a rebuy isn't announced as one of the players.

Not the same as all-in, and the code says so: an all-in player has money riding on
the hand. A seat with no stack recorded isn't broke either -- those fall back to the
table's starting stack.

13 tests (198 total), and 5 of them fail with the sit-out and the run-out guard taken
back out.

Driven through the UI at seven viewports in both states: layout and contrast clean
everywhere but the landscape phone already known from #63, and no console errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 13:08:21 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 a92a389245 Work out who pays whom
I went looking for what home-game dealers actually struggle with rather than reading
the code again, and the answer that kept coming up was the end of the night: hosts
reach for a separate app to finish a game "knowing exactly who owes whom in seconds
rather than minutes".

This tool already had every number that answer needs. The standings panel knows what
each player is up or down -- chips in front of them less the cash they handed over --
and then stops. Which leaves the dealer with six signed numbers at 2am and the actual
job still to do. That last step is the part people get wrong, not the poker.

  Ann  +$75    Dee  +$110      Fay -> Dee   $70
  Ben  -$10    Eve   -$40      Cal -> Dee   $40
  Cal  -$65    Fay   -$70      Cal -> Ann   $25
                               Eve -> Ann   $40
                               Ben -> Ann   $10

Largest debt against largest win, repeatedly. Greedy rather than optimal, which is
the right trade here: the true minimum number of transfers is NP-hard, while this
needs at most one payment fewer than there are people and each one it emits clears
somebody out of the list entirely. A dealer wants a short list to read down, not a
proof. Payers are the outer loop so everything one person owes prints together --
the list gets read out one player at a time.

All of it in integer cents. A settlement that has to come out exactly right is the
last place to let a float land on 41.99999999.

When the chips on the table don't match the cash taken

Then the payments can't all be made, and that is reported rather than quietly spread
across them. It is never rounding -- the arithmetic is integer cents -- so it is
always what the bank check sitting right above it is already warning about: a rebuy
nobody wrote down, or a miscount. Inventing a transfer to make the columns agree is
how a real person ends up short.

  $100 of winnings has nothing to pay it -- there are more chips on the table than
  cash was taken for. Fix that above before anyone cashes out.

The payment list goes into the CSV export too, under the standings it came from,
with the caveat if there is one. Whoever opens that file wants the answer, not to
redo the arithmetic in a spreadsheet.

13 tests (185 total): everyone ends up square, at most n-1 payments, a payer's lines
stay together, cents survive, nobody pays themselves, no payment is ever for zero,
both directions of an unbalanced bank, and one that settles a real table's standings
rather than hand-made numbers.

Driven through the UI at six viewports, balanced and not: clean layout audit and
contrast everywhere but the landscape phone already known from #63. Checked with
26-character names and seven-figure stacks on a 360px screen -- names wrap, amounts
stay whole and right-aligned, nothing overflows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 12:52:56 -06:00
jheapsandClaude Opus 5 3d1ce1f45c Keep the table above the action bar on wide screens
The bar publishes its height so the layout can stay clear of it. Only the phone and
landscape rules ever read it. The wide layout sized the felt from its own width -- a
box 72% as tall as it is wide -- and so had no idea what was underneath it.

That was survivable while the bar was a constant. It isn't: it grows from 117px to
172px the moment a hand needs a side pot, which is exactly the hand where the dealer
most needs to see who is still in. Measured with two side pots, six seats, the bottom
seat sat this far behind the bar:

  1280x900    22px      1600x1000   54px
  768x1024    23px      1024x768    clear
  360x640     39px      390x844     clear

The first attempt at this didn't work and the failure is worth recording: the wrap was
a padding-bottom: 72% box, and percentage padding resolves against the containing
block's width rather than the element's own. Capping the width narrowed the felt from
822px to 746px and left it exactly 617px tall, so the seat stayed where it was. It is
an aspect-ratio box now, and the shape is stated once as --feltAspect so the height
and the cap both derive from it.

  1280x900   felt 857x617 -> 746x537   seat 22px behind the bar -> 51px clear
  1600x1000       ...760 -> 885x637              54px behind -> 59px clear
  768x1024   felt 689x689 -> 603x603              23px behind -> 56px clear

Six-seat tables at 1280x900, 1600x1000, 1024x768 and 768x1024 all go from one covered
seat to a clean audit.

Not applied below 700px. The narrow layout already had an answer -- it reserves the
bar's height as scroll room under the table, and a phone is a thing you scroll -- and
capping there was measured and rejected: at 360x640 it took the felt from 321px to
226px, which fixed the six-seat ring and broke the nine-seat one, two covered seats
traded for two seats whose centre landed on a neighbour.

Landscape phones opt out too. They set their own height from the bar already and are
sitting on their 7rem floor; 844x390 and 667x375 still have the bottom seat in the
bar, and nothing about a 112px-tall table with 73px seats can fix that.

The seat overhang is a constant rather than something measured off the layout it is
about to change -- a seat is ~73px tall at every width -- so this settles in one pass
instead of asking a different question each time it shrinks the felt.

172 tests still passing; no console errors; contrast clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
2026-09-01 12:35:15 -06:00