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
