Somebody rebuying is the most common interruption in a cash game, and the only
way to record it was to open the seat editor and retype a stack from memory.
Press and hold a seat and there's now "Add chips…": quick amounts off the
table's starting stack — half a buy-in, a buy-in, two — with a keypad for the
times it isn't one of those. It's undoable like every other seat action, and it
records cash handed over as well as chips added, because those answer different
questions. The stack moves every hand; what a player has paid in only moves
when they buy.
The export gains bought in, chips now, and up/down, so settling up at the end of
the night is reading a row rather than reconstructing it.
Getting that last column right needed care. Chips in front of a player disagree
with the hand log for as long as a hand is open — and since blinds post the
instant the previous hand settles, that window is almost always. Counting what a
player already has in the current pot as still theirs makes the cash position
agree with the hand log at any moment, including across a rebuy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
The tool handles the money; the other half of dealing is the calls. A home-game
dealer who isn't a pro has to rule on a misdeal or a prematurely turned board
card with a table watching, and the usual outcome is an argument settled by
whoever is loudest.
A "Common rulings" link under the table opens a reference for exactly the
situations that come up: what counts as a misdeal, what to do when the fourth
board card gets turned before the betting is finished, and how acting out of
turn is normally treated. It follows the Tournament Directors Association
rules, and says plainly that house rules win and that a dispute gets settled
between hands rather than during one.
It's a sheet rather than a sixth sidebar panel — a dealer consults this rarely
and needs it immediately, which is the opposite of what a panel is for.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
The seat puck showed a green figure that meant "what this player just bet"
during a street and "what they've put in this hand" between streets — two
different numbers wearing the same badge, sitting directly above their stack
size. Easy to misread, and nothing on the table looked like money.
Bets now sit on the felt between their player and the pot, as a chip coloured
by the largest denomination in the chip legend that fits the amount: a $30 bet
shows green against a $25 chip, a $2 bet shows white. When a street closes the
chips come off the felt and the pot badge keeps the money, the way they'd be
swept in. The puck's figure now always means the same thing — this player's
total for the hand.
On a phone the bet clings to its own puck instead of sitting on its own ring.
That isn't a preference: sweeping every radius between the seat ring and the
pot badge at 390px showed each one collides with either the pucks or the pot,
because the felt has no room for a third ring at that size.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
Each round added a panel, and the sidebar became five identical dark accordions
with no hierarchy between them — which is the polish debt I've been pointing at
for a while without paying it down.
Session Standings and Hand History were always two views of the same log, so
they're one Session panel now, with subheads and the export and clear buttons
at the bottom where they act on both. Base pot amount is the pre-live-betting
way of working, so it moves into a "Without live betting" disclosure inside
Table Setup rather than sitting between two settings a dealer actually touches.
Panels are ordered by how often they're opened, and the hints are shorter.
Also stops "Small blind" wrapping onto two lines beside its input, which made
the pair look like a mistake rather than a pair.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
The phone got gestures a few rounds back; the desktop still had a mouse and
nothing else. On a bar that gets tapped thirty times a hand, moving a hand to
the trackpad between every decision is the slow part.
F folds, C checks or calls, R opens the raise pad, A shoves, Enter confirms a
raise or moves the hand on, Esc backs out, U takes the last action back. Each
button wears its key in the corner, hidden on touch devices where it would just
be clutter on a button being tapped anyway.
The shortcuts press the same buttons a dealer would tap rather than calling the
betting engine themselves, so there's no second code path to drift out of step
with what the bar is actually offering — if a button isn't on screen, its key
does nothing.
Nothing fires while a name, amount or note is being typed, or while an overlay
owns the keyboard. Typing "Francesca" into a seat name must not fold the table.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
An audit of what's accumulated turned up an inconsistency worth fixing: double-
tapping a seat to fold someone was undoable, but tapping Fold in the action bar
— the button a dealer actually uses all hand — was not. Nor was Call, Raise, or
dealing a street. The safest path through the tool was the shortcut, and the
main one had no way back.
Every action taken from the bar now goes through one place that records it
first, and the bar carries a standing Undo naming what it will take back:
"Ben's fold", "dealing the flop". Twelve steps deep, because a misclick usually
gets noticed a beat late and one level of undo would only cover the luckiest
case.
It's a control rather than a toast per action. A dealer taps this bar
constantly, and a toast after every fold is noise they'd learn to ignore —
which is precisely when they'd miss the one that mattered.
The history is discarded whenever a hand starts or settles, because those
snapshots describe a hand that no longer exists. The whole-hand Undo on the
toast already covers that boundary.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
Dealing guides put the biggest time sink not in shuffling or spreading cards
but in players who haven't noticed the action is on them — and they list the
per-street count of players remaining as part of what a dealer announces.
The action bar now carries both. A stopwatch runs on whoever is to act, going
amber at thirty seconds and red at a minute, so a dealer can see at a glance
whether someone is genuinely deciding or has stopped paying attention. Nothing
happens when it grows; it is a prompt for the dealer, not a clock on the
player. Beside it is the count of players still in the hand.
The timer restarts only when the action actually moves, so re-rendering for an
unrelated reason doesn't put a thinking player back to zero, and it ticks by
repainting its own text rather than rebuilding the buttons under the dealer's
thumb. It stops when the hand ends or the bar hides.
Also stops the side-pot breakdown from crying wolf: it now waits for someone to
actually be all-in. Unequal amounts in front of players are normal mid-street —
the blinds alone are unequal — and layering those announced a side pot on every
hand before anyone had acted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
Dealing guides are consistent that the most common side-pot error isn't
miscounting the chips, it's failing to announce the breakdown clearly before
the showdown. The tool had the arithmetic right but only revealed it after the
hand, one layer at a time, as the wizard asked who won each.
The breakdown is now visible while the hand is still running: as soon as an
all-in splits the money, the action bar lists the main pot and each side pot
with the amount and who can win it, and the wizard repeats it under "Announce
before the showdown" before asking for a winner. A hand with a single
undivided pot shows nothing, so the line means something when it appears.
Chips nobody could call are called what they are. Money above the largest live
contribution was never contested — usually an overbet by someone who then
folded — so it's listed as "Uncalled, back to X" rather than padding a side
pot nobody can win. The wizard's leftover warning says the same thing instead
of telling the dealer to un-fold someone to win it, which was the wrong advice
for chips that should simply be pushed back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
Folding someone meant opening their editor, finding the Fold box, ticking it,
and dismissing the sheet — four interactions for the thing that happens most
often in a hand.
Double-tap a seat to fold, and again to put them back. Press and hold for a
quick menu of everything else you do to one player: fold, all-in, sit out or
deal in, hand them the button, or open the full editor. Both are undoable the
same way the header buttons are, because a gesture is easier to fire by
accident than a button.
The single tap now waits out the double-tap window before opening the editor —
a fifth of a second of latency on opening a form, in exchange for a fold that
doesn't also fling a sheet up over the table. A press that moves is a drag, so
the hold is cancelled and swapping seats still works, and the puck shrinks
slightly while held so a press that's being counted looks different from one
that's being ignored.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
Typing "AH" into a two-character box is fine at a desk and miserable at a table:
it needs a keyboard, it accepts nonsense like "ZZ", and it happily deals the same
card to two players.
The two card fields become face-up card slots. Tapping one opens a 52-card grid
— four suit columns, thirteen rank rows, one tap per card — and picking the first
card moves straight on to the second, because a dealer picking hole cards is
always picking two. Cards already dealt elsewhere at the table are greyed out and
say who has them, so a duplicate is visibly out of play rather than silently
accepted.
Cards are still stored as the same two plain characters everything has always
read; the suit only becomes a symbol on its way to a human. That formatting is
now shared, so the table pucks, the seat editor, the pot wizard, the hand history
and the CSV all say A♥ K♦ rather than three of them saying AH KD.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
Until now a dealer kept the money in their head and typed each player's total
into a form. This adds the running hand: blinds post themselves, every seat has
a stack, and one tap per decision moves the action on.
The bar sits at the bottom of the screen where a thumb already is, and shows
only what's true right now — Fold, then Check or Call with the amount owed, then
Bet or Raise. Calling more than a player has left says "Call all-in" rather than
quoting a number they can't cover. Raising offers min, half pot, pot and all-in
before it offers a keypad, because a dealer calling "raise to sixty" wants a
button. When everyone has answered, the bar becomes Deal Flop, then Turn, River,
and finally Showdown, which hands off to the pot wizard that already existed.
Winnings go straight back in front of the winner, so the next hand's stacks are
already right.
The money hooks into what was already there rather than running beside it: a
street's chips sweep into each seat's amountOverride, the same field the pot
badge, the pot wizard, the session standings and the CSV export all read. So
nothing downstream changed, and a dealer who prefers the old typed workflow
still has it.
Tables saved before this exist without any of these fields, so load() fills
them in rather than making someone reset a table mid-session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
A seat could be live in the hand, folded, sitting out, or empty, and three of
those looked nearly the same: a plain dark puck, or a dimmed one. An unclaimed
chair was indistinguishable from a nameless player, and nothing positively said
"this player is in" — the dealer had to infer it from whether a dollar badge
happened to be showing.
Each state now has one look. Live gets a green edge. Folded gets a red edge and
a struck-through name, so it reads as out rather than merely faint. An empty
chair is the only dashed outline and says so. Sitting out just fades — and
fades less than it used to, since that player is still someone the dealer may
need to deal back in, and at 0.4 the name was nearly gone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
Three system confirm() dialogs sat in the middle of dealing. The worst was on
Next Hand — the most-pressed button in a session, asking "are you sure?" every
single time, stealing focus and, on a phone, taking over the screen.
Next Hand now just happens, and a toast says where the button landed with an
Undo beside it for the few seconds anyone would notice a misclick. The same
undo covers the pot wizard, which is the more valuable case: paying the wrong
player is a real mistake, and rolling it back restores the hand history entry
and the session standings along with the seats. The snapshot is in-memory only
— an undo is for the mistake you just made, not one from last night.
The two genuinely destructive actions keep a confirmation, but as an in-page
dialog that matches the table instead of the browser's own: Escape or the
backdrop cancels, Enter confirms, and on a phone the buttons go full width with
Cancel nearest the thumb.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
Two things were broken on a narrow screen. The seat ring is drawn on a radius
measured from the table wrap, so at phone width the left- and right-most seats
hung off the edge of the viewport — at a ten-handed table two players were
simply not on screen. And tapping a seat opened an editor far enough down the
page that it looked like nothing had happened.
The ring is now inset by half a puck on phones, which keeps every seat on
screen, and the pucks are narrower there so neighbours stop overlapping where
the ring flattens out at the top and bottom. The seat editor becomes a bottom
sheet that slides up over the table: grip, Done button, tap the same seat again
to dismiss, table still visible above it. Its controls grow to thumb size, and
every field goes to 16px — below that iOS zooms the page on focus and the
dealer has to pinch back out mid-hand.
Header actions become full-width tap targets, and the page padding tightens to
give the table the width it needs. Nothing above 700px changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
The dealer table is a two-handed, big-screen tool. A dealer standing over a
chopped pot with a phone in one hand and players waiting needs an answer in
seconds, not a table to set up first — so /casino/texasholdem/quicksplit is
the whole job on one screen: type the pot, tap how many ways, tap the
smallest chip in play, read the payout. Nothing to configure, nothing saved.
It splits in whole chips rather than raw arithmetic, because a dealer can't
push half a chip across the felt: everyone gets the same stack and the
remainder is called out as odd chips going one at a time to the first
players left of the button. A pot that doesn't divide into the chosen
denomination says so instead of quietly hiding the difference.
Money formatting moves out of render.js into its own file so this screen can
use it without pulling in the whole seat/chip UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
The hand log answered "what happened in hand 12"; it couldn't answer "what
does Alice owe". Each resolved pot now records a per-seat ledger (what that
player put in, what they took down) alongside the payouts, and a Session
Standings panel sums it into one row per player — paid in, won, net, sorted
by who's up. The CSV export carries the same table, so one file covers both
the hand-by-hand trail and the cash-out numbers.
Keyed by seat id rather than name, so renaming or reseating a player doesn't
split their totals. Hands recorded before this change have no ledger and are
skipped rather than counted wrong.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
A dedicated dealer needs a paper trail that outlives the browser tab, not
just a scrollable in-app panel — the Export CSV button downloads the full
resolved-pot log (hand #, time, pot, payouts) for recordkeeping or a
disputed chip count after the session ends.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
Give the dealer a running record of resolved pots — hand number, total
pot, who got paid what, and the time — instead of losing that
information the moment the pot wizard closes. It's the kind of audit
trail a real dealer needs when a chip count gets disputed after the
fact.
- state.js tracks state.handNumber and state.handHistory (capped at 200
entries) and persists both through the existing localStorage save/load
path, with backfill defaults for tables saved before this change.
- potWizard.js now hands its final payouts back to the caller instead of
discarding them once "Start Next Hand" is clicked.
- main.js records a history entry (skipping hands where nobody actually
won anything) before advancing to the next hand, and wires up a "Clear
history" control that also resets the hand counter.
- A new sidebar panel lists history entries newest-first; the header
shows a running "Hand #N" badge next to the existing subtitle.
Verified via Playwright MCP: seated two players, resolved a pot, and
confirmed the header's hand counter incremented, the history panel
listed the payout, the entry survived a full page reload (localStorage
persistence), and Clear History reset both the log and the counter. No
console errors during the flow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C3NiiUDimoKDJ8GjC3KL3x
Add a "Dedicated dealer (not a seat)" toggle for tables run by someone
outside the game: it hides every seat's dealer button while blinds keep
rotating automatically off the same internal position each hand.
Also gave the table a real casino look, based on reference felt/rail and
seat-pod patterns found via web search (huggingface.co/spaces/Estazz/
PokerGameDesigner, github.com/Tehes/poker): a richer radial felt gradient,
a gold piping ring inside a wood-toned rail, a subtle center watermark, a
pill-shaped chip-well pot badge, softer seat pucks with a pill-badge total
and red/black suit coloring on cards, and casino-chip-styled dealer/blind
badges (the dealer chip now dims to a faint disc on other seats and only
lights up on hover, decluttering the ring of ten clickable buttons down to
one visible button on the actual dealer).
Verified via Playwright MCP: toggle hides/reveals dealer chips correctly,
SB/BB still track it, no console errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018CmAti1baCjidbJM2HeJfk
main.js ran an IIFE immediately, but the layout renders @section Scripts
inside <head> before <body> exists, so every getElementById() call hit
null. Wrapped init in DOMContentLoaded, matching the rest of the codebase
(e.g. ChessScripts/chessMain.js).
Separately, the original seat cards packed a full data-entry form (name,
toggles, 2 cards, 5 chip counters, $ override, custom fields) into each of
up to 24 positions around a circle — at any screen size, adjacent seats
overlapped badly. Replaced with compact seat "pucks" for the table view
(name, cards, total, blind/dealer badges) plus a dedicated seat editor
panel in the sidebar that opens for whichever seat is clicked.
Verified via Playwright MCP: load with no console errors, drag-and-drop
seat swap, and a 3-way side-pot resolution (short all-in capped correctly,
remainder awarded to the next-best hand) end to end.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018CmAti1baCjidbJM2HeJfk
New /casino hub page (Texas Hold'em live, other table games marked coming
soon) and /casino/texasholdem: a drag-and-drop seating table with
auto-rotating blinds, per-seat chip/dollar contribution tracking, and a
side-pot resolution wizard that asks who won and who's next until every
dollar in the pot (including dead money from folds) is assigned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018CmAti1baCjidbJM2HeJfk
Piece-square and feature weights now converge to a presence-weighted
fractional win-rate per cell (percent of games won with a piece there
minus percent lost), tracked via running visits/score sums instead of
an incrementally clamped nudge. The training signal is also scaled by
how much of a game's result is NOT already explained by the winner's
average material edge (via the standard centipawn win-probability
curve), so a piece no longer gets credit merely for existing on the
winning side of a material blowout in the endgame.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018CmAti1baCjidbJM2HeJfk
DisposeAsync awaited WaitForExitAsync with no timeout; a Stockfish process that
doesn't exit on "quit" blocked GameStore's removal task forever, leaving the
finished game stuck in the store and cluttering the live-watch list indefinitely.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018CmAti1baCjidbJM2HeJfk
A failed fetch fell back to the cached value with no limit, so an unreachable
blog API kept the post list rendering while every uncached slug returned 404.
Stale entries now survive an hour past their TTL, then get dropped and logged
at error so the outage surfaces the same way for every key.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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