Stop asking all-in players to act

A player who is all-in is still in the hand and still wins pots, but has nothing
left to decide. The engine didn't know that: it picked the next player to act by
walking to whoever was still in the hand, chips or no chips.

So a dealer with three players all-in pre-flop was asked to check for each of
them on the flop, the turn and the river — nine taps to say nothing — and the
action could land mid-street on someone who'd already pushed their last chip in.

Now the action passes over players who are all-in, and once fewer than two
people have chips left the betting is simply over: the bar runs Deal Flop, Turn,
River, Showdown straight through, and says "All-in — running out the board" so
the absence of a question reads as deliberate rather than as a stuck screen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb

JoshHeaps.Net/wwwroot/css/casino/holdem.css

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ body {
 }
 
 .tableHint {
-    color: #949494;
+    color: #888;
     font-size: 0.8rem;
     text-align: center;
     margin-top: 1rem;
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ body {
 }
 
 .seatEmptyLabel {
-    color: #8a8a8a;
+    color: #6d6d6d;
     font-size: 0.6rem;
     letter-spacing: 0.08em;
     text-transform: uppercase;
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ body {
     top: 2px;
     left: 6px;
     font-size: 0.58rem;
-    color: #8a8a8a;
+    color: #777;
 }
 
 .seatPuckName {
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ body {
 
 .cardSlot.cardSlotEmpty {
     background: #191919;
-    color: #8a8a8a;
+    color: #5c5c5c;
     border-style: dashed;
     border-color: #3f3f3f;
     box-shadow: none;
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ body {
 }
 
 .addChipsCurrency {
-    color: #8a8a8a;
+    color: #777;
     font-size: 1.3rem;
 }
 
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ body {
     background: none;
     border: none;
     padding: 0;
-    color: #d8b46a;
+    color: #a9782f;
     font-family: inherit;
     font-size: 0.78rem;
     text-decoration: underline;
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ body {
     margin: 0;
     padding-top: 0.6rem;
     border-top: 1px solid #2c2c2c;
-    color: #8a8a8a;
+    color: #7a7a7a;
     font-size: 0.72rem;
     line-height: 1.45;
 }
@@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ body {
 
 .subPanel summary {
     cursor: pointer;
-    color: #9a9a9a;
+    color: #8f8f8f;
     font-size: 0.78rem;
 }
 
@@ -1249,7 +1249,7 @@ body {
 
 .fieldHint {
     font-size: 0.75rem;
-    color: #949494;
+    color: #888;
     line-height: 1.4;
     margin: 0;
 }
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ body {
 }
 
 .standingsHeader {
-    color: #8a8a8a;
+    color: #777;
     font-size: 0.7rem;
     letter-spacing: 0.04em;
     text-transform: uppercase;
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ body {
 
 .handHistoryTime {
     margin-left: auto;
-    color: #8a8a8a;
+    color: #777;
     font-size: 0.72rem;
 }
 
@@ -1480,6 +1480,12 @@ body.hasActionBar #holdemSidebar {
     font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
 }
 
+.actionRunout {
+    margin-left: auto;
+    color: #d8b46a;
+    font-size: 0.74rem;
+}
+
 .actionWho {
     margin-left: auto;
     color: #9c9c9c;
@@ -1494,7 +1500,7 @@ body.hasActionBar #holdemSidebar {
     flex: none;
     min-width: 3.1rem;
     text-align: right;
-    color: #949494;
+    color: #7d7d7d;
     font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
     transition: color 0.3s ease;
 }
@@ -1732,7 +1738,7 @@ body.hasActionBar #holdemSidebar {
 
 .seatPuckStack {
     font-size: 0.58rem;
-    color: #9a9a9a;
+    color: #8f8f8f;
     font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
     margin-top: 0.1rem;
 }
@@ -1836,7 +1842,7 @@ body.hasActionBar #toastHost {
     border-radius: 50%;
     border: none;
     background: transparent;
-    color: #949494;
+    color: #888;
     font-size: 0.8rem;
     font-family: inherit;
     cursor: pointer;

JoshHeaps.Net/wwwroot/js/casino/holdem/actionBar.js

@@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ const ActionBar = {
         players.textContent = `${remaining} ${remaining === 1 ? "player" : "players"}`;
         row.appendChild(players);
 
+        // Nobody is being asked to act because nobody can — say so, or the bar just
+        // looks like it's waiting for something.
+        if (Betting.isRunningOut(this.state) && !Betting.isHandOver(this.state)) {
+            const runout = document.createElement("span");
+            runout.className = "actionRunout";
+            const stillIn = Betting.liveSeats(this.state).length;
+            runout.textContent = `All-in — running out the board (${stillIn} players)`;
+            row.appendChild(runout);
+        }
+
         const index = this.state.actingSeatIndex;
         if (index !== null && index !== undefined && !Betting.isHandOver(this.state)) {
             const player = this.state.seats[index];

JoshHeaps.Net/wwwroot/js/casino/holdem/betting.js

@@ -70,7 +70,19 @@ const Betting = {
         for (let step = 1; step <= count; step++) {
             const index = this.seatAt(state, fromIndex, step);
             const player = state.seats[index];
-            if (player.inHand && !player.folded && this.stackOf(state, player) >= 0) return index;
+            if (player.inHand && !player.folded) return index;
+        }
+        return null;
+    },
+
+    // Who the dealer asks next. A player who is all-in is still in the hand and still
+    // wins pots, but has no decision left, so the action passes over them.
+    nextToAct(state, fromIndex) {
+        const count = state.seatCount;
+        for (let step = 1; step <= count; step++) {
+            const index = this.seatAt(state, fromIndex, step);
+            const player = state.seats[index];
+            if (player.inHand && !player.folded && this.stackOf(state, player) > this.EPSILON_CHIPS) return index;
         }
         return null;
     },
@@ -156,7 +168,7 @@ const Betting = {
     },
 
     passAction(state, index) {
-        state.actingSeatIndex = this.isStreetComplete(state) ? null : this.nextLiveIndex(state, index);
+        state.actingSeatIndex = this.isStreetComplete(state) ? null : this.nextToAct(state, index);
     },
 
     // ---- Street and hand boundaries ----
@@ -184,8 +196,13 @@ const Betting = {
 
         const nextStreetIndex = this.STREETS.indexOf(state.street || "preflop") + 1;
         state.street = this.STREETS[nextStreetIndex] || "river";
-        state.actingSeatIndex = this.liveSeats(state).length > 1
+
-            ? this.nextLiveIndex(state, state.dealerSeatIndex)
+        // It takes two players with chips to have a bet. Once everyone left is all-in
+        // — or only one player still has anything behind — the rest of the board is
+        // just dealt out, and asking someone to check when they have nothing to check
+        // with only slows the dealer down.
+        state.actingSeatIndex = this.canStillBet(state)
+            ? this.nextToAct(state, state.dealerSeatIndex)
             : null;
     },
 
@@ -193,6 +210,24 @@ const Betting = {
         return this.liveSeats(state).length <= 1;
     },
 
+    // Players still in the hand who have chips left to put in. Fewer than two of them
+    // means the betting is finished even though the hand isn't.
+    seatsWithChips(state) {
+        return this.liveSeats(state).filter(s => this.stackOf(state, s.player) > this.EPSILON_CHIPS);
+    },
+
+    EPSILON_CHIPS: 0.004,
+
+    canStillBet(state) {
+        return this.liveSeats(state).length > 1 && this.seatsWithChips(state).length > 1;
+    },
+
+    // True when the hand is still live but nobody can bet again — the dealer is just
+    // running the board out.
+    isRunningOut(state) {
+        return this.liveSeats(state).length > 1 && !this.canStillBet(state);
+    },
+
     // Deals a fresh betting round: blinds posted, action to the seat after the big
     // blind, which is where a dealer expects to be looking when the cards go out.
     beginHand(state) {
@@ -215,7 +250,7 @@ const Betting = {
 
         state.currentBet = this.round(Math.max(this.committed(state.seats[sbIndex]), this.committed(state.seats[bbIndex])));
         state.lastRaiseSize = bb || 0;
-        state.actingSeatIndex = this.nextLiveIndex(state, bbIndex);
+        state.actingSeatIndex = this.nextToAct(state, bbIndex);
     },
 
     // Winners get their share put back in front of them.