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

JoshHeaps.Net/wwwroot/css/casino/quicksplit.css

@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@ button,
 }
 
 .unevenCurrency {
-    color: #777;
+    /* Was #777 — 4.11:1 on this background, under the 4.5:1 small text needs. It sits
+       against every amount a dealer types, so it is read constantly. */
+    color: #8f8f8f;
 }
 
 .unevenAmount {
@@ -184,7 +186,9 @@ button,
     height: 44px;
     border: none;
     background: none;
-    color: #6a6a6a;
+    /* Was #6a6a6a — 3.66:1, the worst on the page, on a control that deletes a
+       player's entry. A destructive action should not be the faintest thing in view. */
+    color: #9a9a9a;
     font-size: 0.85rem;
     cursor: pointer;
 }
@@ -209,11 +213,86 @@ button,
 .unevenPot {
     display: flex;
     align-items: baseline;
+    /* Wraps so a chop opens underneath its own pot rather than squeezing in beside the
+       eligible-players list and pushing it off the row. */
+    flex-wrap: wrap;
     gap: 0.6rem;
     padding: 0.3rem 0;
     font-size: 0.85rem;
 }
 
+.unevenChopToggle {
+    flex: none;
+    order: 3;
+    /* 44px on touch: it moves money, like everything else that does. */
+    min-height: 32px;
+    padding: 0.2rem 0.6rem;
+    border: 1px solid rgba(216, 180, 106, 0.45);
+    border-radius: 999px;
+    background: rgba(216, 180, 106, 0.1);
+    color: #e3c887;
+    font: inherit;
+    font-size: 0.74rem;
+    cursor: pointer;
+}
+
+.unevenChopToggle:hover {
+    background: rgba(216, 180, 106, 0.18);
+}
+
+.unevenChopToggle:focus-visible {
+    outline: 2px solid #d8b46a;
+    outline-offset: 2px;
+}
+
+.unevenChopDetail {
+    order: 4;
+    flex: 0 0 100%;
+    /* Or the padding is added on top of the 100% basis and the panel sits wider than
+       the row it belongs to — measured 328px inside a 309px row on a phone. */
+    box-sizing: border-box;
+    margin: 0.15rem 0 0.2rem;
+    padding: 0.45rem 0.6rem;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.04);
+}
+
+.unevenChopWays {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: center;
+    gap: 0.45rem;
+    margin-bottom: 0.3rem;
+}
+
+.unevenChopWaysLabel {
+    color: #cfcfcf;
+    font-size: 0.78rem;
+    font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
+}
+
+.unevenChopEach {
+    margin: 0;
+    color: #f2f2f2;
+    font-weight: 600;
+}
+
+.unevenChopNote {
+    margin: 0.2rem 0 0;
+    color: #9a9a9a;
+    font-size: 0.76rem;
+}
+
+.unevenChopDust {
+    color: #e0b169;
+}
+
+@media (max-width: 700px), (pointer: coarse) {
+    .unevenChopToggle {
+        min-height: 44px;
+        padding: 0.4rem 0.9rem;
+    }
+}
+
 .unevenPot + .unevenPot {
     border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.06);
 }
@@ -510,7 +589,9 @@ button,
 
 .splitFootnote {
     margin-top: 1.5rem;
-    color: #6f6f6f;
+    /* Was #6f6f6f — 3.94:1. It carries the instruction for what to do with the pot
+       list, which is not a decorative line. */
+    color: #8d8d8d;
     font-size: 0.78rem;
     line-height: 1.5;
     text-align: center;

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

@@ -430,7 +430,6 @@ const ActionBar = {
         const player = this.state.seats[index];
         const stack = Betting.stackOf(this.state, player);
         const maxTo = Betting.round(Betting.committed(player) + stack);
-        const pot = Betting.potSoFar(this.state);
         // Two different minimums, and conflating them was a bug. `minTo` is clamped to
         // what this player can actually put in, which is what the Min button should
         // offer. `legalMin` is what the rules require — for a short stack the two are
@@ -446,10 +445,16 @@ const ActionBar = {
         const quick = document.createElement("div");
         quick.className = "raiseQuick";
 
+        // The pot amounts come from Betting, which knows that a pot raise is measured
+        // off the pot as it stands *after* the caller's own call goes in. The pad used
+        // to work it out here as "the bet plus the pot", which left the call out and
+        // made both amounts short: pre-flop at 1/2 it offered "Pot $5" where a pot
+        // raise is $7, and a half-pot that clamped up to the minimum and sat next to
+        // the Min button showing the same $4 twice.
         const options = [
             { label: "Min", value: minTo },
-            { label: "½ pot", value: Betting.round(this.state.currentBet + pot / 2) },
-            { label: "Pot", value: Betting.round(this.state.currentBet + pot) },
+            { label: "½ pot", value: Betting.potRaiseTo(this.state, index, 0.5) },
+            { label: "Pot", value: Betting.potRaiseTo(this.state, index, 1) },
             { label: "All-in", value: maxTo },
         ];
         options.forEach(option => {

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

@@ -518,6 +518,42 @@ const Betting = {
             : this.nextToAct(state, bbIndex);
     },
 
+    // What a pot-sized raise actually is, as a "raise to" total.
+    //
+    // Not "the bet plus the pot as it stands". The raiser calls first, and their call
+    // is in the pot before the raise is measured off it, so the pot being matched is
+    // the one that exists after the call:
+    //
+    //     raise to = the current bet + (pot + what they owe) × fraction
+    //
+    // Pre-flop at 1/2 that gives $7, not $5: call the $2, which makes the pot $5, then
+    // raise $5. Leaving the call out understates every one of these, and players say
+    // "pot" out loud meaning a definite number.
+    //
+    // Facing no bet this is a plain pot-sized bet — toCall is zero and currentBet is
+    // zero, so it comes out as the pot, which is the right answer there too.
+    // Rounded up to something the table's chips can actually build. Half the pot is
+    // constantly a half-chip amount — pre-flop at 1/2 it is $4.50, and the smallest
+    // chip in the default legend is a dollar, so the button offered a number the
+    // dealer would have to round themselves every single time.
+    //
+    // 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. Left exact there, and the wrong
+    // legend stays visible rather than being quietly applied.
+    potRaiseTo(state, index, fraction = 1) {
+        const player = state.seats[index];
+        if (!player) return 0;
+        const potAfterCall = this.round(this.potSoFar(state) + this.toCall(state, player));
+        const exact = this.round((state.currentBet || 0) + potAfterCall * fraction);
+
+        const step = Money.fromCents(Money.chipStepCents(state.chipLegend));
+        const bigBlind = Number(state.bigBlind) || 0;
+        if (step <= 0 || (bigBlind > 0 && step > bigBlind)) return exact;
+        return Money.upToChip(exact, state.chipLegend);
+    },
+
     // Who turns their hand over first.
     //
     // A call the dealer makes at every showdown that isn't a fold, and one nobody at

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

@@ -63,6 +63,29 @@ const Money = {
     // Anything the smallest chip can't make comes back as `remainder` rather than being
     // rounded away: a 50c share in a game whose smallest chip is a dollar is a real
     // problem for the dealer to solve, not a rounding error to hide.
+    // The smallest chip the table has said it plays with, in cents. Zero when no
+    // denominations are set, which means the tool has been told nothing about what
+    // chips exist and shouldn't pretend otherwise.
+    chipStepCents(legend) {
+        const values = (legend || [])
+            .map(chip => this.toCents(chip.value))
+            .filter(cents => cents > 0);
+        return values.length > 0 ? Math.min(...values) : 0;
+    },
+
+    // Rounds an amount up to something the table can actually build out of its chips.
+    //
+    // Up rather than down or nearest: these are bet sizes, and a pot-sized bet that
+    // has been shaved is no longer a pot-sized bet. Rounding up also can't drop an
+    // amount below a legal minimum, which rounding the other way can.
+    upToChip(amount, legend) {
+        const step = this.chipStepCents(legend);
+        if (step <= 0) return this.round(amount);
+        const cents = this.toCents(amount);
+        if (cents <= 0) return this.round(amount);
+        return this.fromCents(Math.ceil(cents / step) * step);
+    },
+
     chipBreakdown(amount, legend) {
         let cents = this.toCents(amount);
         if (cents <= 0) return { chips: [], remainder: 0 };

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

@@ -197,6 +197,80 @@ const QuickSplit = {
         });
     },
 
+    // Chopping one of the pots listed above, without leaving the screen that worked it
+    // out. Starts closed and at as many ways as there are players who can win the pot,
+    // which is the common case; the stepper covers a chop between fewer of them, which
+    // is the other one.
+    //
+    // The per-pot ways live on the row rather than in `this.ways`, so opening a chop on
+    // the main pot doesn't change what the side pot below it is saying.
+    addChopControl(row, amount, contenderCount) {
+        let ways = contenderCount;
+        let open = false;
+
+        const toggle = document.createElement("button");
+        toggle.type = "button";
+        toggle.className = "unevenChopToggle";
+
+        const detail = document.createElement("div");
+        detail.className = "unevenChopDetail";
+        detail.hidden = true;
+
+        const draw = () => {
+            toggle.textContent = open ? "Hide chop" : "Chop";
+            toggle.setAttribute("aria-expanded", String(open));
+            detail.hidden = !open;
+            if (!open) return;
+
+            const result = SplitCalculator.split(amount, ways, this.chip);
+            detail.innerHTML = "";
+
+            const stepper = document.createElement("div");
+            stepper.className = "unevenChopWays";
+            stepper.appendChild(this.makeStepButton("−", () => {
+                if (ways > 2) { ways -= 1; draw(); }
+            }));
+            const label = document.createElement("span");
+            label.className = "unevenChopWaysLabel";
+            label.textContent = `${ways} ways`;
+            stepper.appendChild(label);
+            stepper.appendChild(this.makeStepButton("+", () => {
+                if (ways < Math.max(contenderCount, this.MAX_WAYS)) { ways += 1; draw(); }
+            }));
+            detail.appendChild(stepper);
+
+            const each = document.createElement("p");
+            each.className = "unevenChopEach";
+            each.textContent = `${Money.format(result.each)} each`;
+            detail.appendChild(each);
+
+            // Same wording as the main split, because it is the same rule and a dealer
+            // shouldn't have to notice they're reading a different screen.
+            if (result.valid && result.oddChips > 0) {
+                const odd = document.createElement("p");
+                odd.className = "unevenChopNote";
+                odd.textContent = result.oddChips === 1
+                    ? `plus one odd ${Money.format(result.chip)} chip to the first player left of the button`
+                    : `plus ${result.oddChips} odd ${Money.format(result.chip)} chips — one each to the ` +
+                      `first ${result.oddChips} players left of the button`;
+                detail.appendChild(odd);
+            }
+            if (result.valid && result.dust > 0) {
+                const dust = document.createElement("p");
+                dust.className = "unevenChopNote unevenChopDust";
+                dust.textContent =
+                    `${Money.format(result.dust)} doesn't divide into ${Money.format(result.chip)} chips — ` +
+                    `pick a smaller denomination.`;
+                detail.appendChild(dust);
+            }
+        };
+
+        toggle.addEventListener("click", () => { open = !open; draw(); });
+        draw();
+        row.appendChild(toggle);
+        row.appendChild(detail);
+    },
+
     updateUneven() {
         const players = this.entries
             .map((entry, index) => ({ id: `P${index + 1}`, contribution: Number(entry.amount) || 0, folded: entry.folded }))
@@ -218,7 +292,7 @@ const QuickSplit = {
         }
         empty.hidden = true;
 
-        const addRow = (label, amount, who, className) => {
+        const addRow = (label, amount, who, className, chopWays) => {
             const row = document.createElement("div");
             row.className = `unevenPot ${className || ""}`;
             const name = document.createElement("span");
@@ -234,9 +308,19 @@ const QuickSplit = {
             row.appendChild(value);
             row.appendChild(eligible);
             host.appendChild(row);
+
+            // Two players tying for a side pot is ordinary, and working out each one's
+            // share meant copying the amount into the other mode by hand — retyping a
+            // number the screen had just worked out, which is a transcription error
+            // waiting to happen with money on it. The chop happens here instead.
+            //
+            // Only offered where it means something: a pot with at least two people
+            // who can win it. Not the uncalled row, which goes back to one player, and
+            // not the total.
+            if (chopWays >= 2) this.addChopControl(row, amount, chopWays);
         };
 
-        pots.forEach(pot => addRow(pot.label, pot.amount, pot.eligible.join(", ")));
+        pots.forEach(pot => addRow(pot.label, pot.amount, pot.eligible.join(", "), "", pot.eligible.length));
         returns.forEach(ret => addRow("Uncalled", ret.amount, `back to ${ret.id}`, "unevenPotReturn"));
 
         const total = players.reduce((sum, p) => sum + p.contribution, 0);

tests/holdem/potRaise.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+// What a pot-sized raise actually is.
+//
+// The raise pad worked it out as "the current bet plus the pot as it stands", which
+// leaves out the fact that the raiser calls first and their call is in the pot before
+// the raise is measured off it. Every quick amount came out short — pre-flop at 1/2 it
+// offered "Pot $5" where a pot raise is $7. Players say "pot" out loud meaning a
+// definite number, and a dealer tapping the button that claims to be it should record
+// what was actually said.
+const test = require("node:test");
+const { describe } = require("node:test");
+const assert = require("node:assert");
+const { Betting, Money, makeTable } = require("./load");
+
+describe("pre-flop at 1/2", () => {
+    const dealt = () => {
+        const state = makeTable({ seatCount: 6, seated: [0, 1, 2, 3], stack: 200, dealerSeatIndex: 0 });
+        Betting.beginHand(state);
+        return state;
+    };
+
+    test("a pot raise from the first player to act is $7", () => {
+        // Call the $2, which makes the pot $5, then raise $5.
+        const state = dealt();
+        assert.equal(Betting.potSoFar(state), 3, "the blinds");
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex), 7);
+    });
+
+    test("half pot is $5 — $4.50 rounded up to something the chips can make", () => {
+        // The old arithmetic gave $3.50, which clamped up to the minimum and put the
+        // same $4 on two buttons side by side. The honest half-pot is $4.50, and the
+        // smallest chip in the default legend is a dollar, so the button would have
+        // offered an amount the dealer had to round themselves every single time.
+        const state = dealt();
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex, 0.5), 5);
+        assert.notEqual(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex, 0.5),
+            Betting.minRaiseTo(state), "the two quick buttons say different things");
+    });
+
+    test("the small blind owes less, so their pot raise is smaller", () => {
+        // They have $1 in already: call $1, pot becomes $4, raise $4, total $6.
+        const state = dealt();
+        const { sbIndex } = require("./load").HoldemState.getBlindSeats(state);
+        assert.equal(Betting.toCall(state, state.seats[sbIndex]), 1);
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, sbIndex), 6);
+    });
+
+    test("the big blind owes nothing, so it is just the pot", () => {
+        const state = dealt();
+        const { bbIndex } = require("./load").HoldemState.getBlindSeats(state);
+        assert.equal(Betting.toCall(state, state.seats[bbIndex]), 0);
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, bbIndex), 5, "the $2 bet plus the $3 pot");
+    });
+});
+
+describe("after the flop", () => {
+    const flopWithBet = () => {
+        const state = makeTable({ seatCount: 6, seated: [0, 1, 2], stack: 500, dealerSeatIndex: 0 });
+        Betting.beginHand(state);
+        while (state.actingSeatIndex !== null) Betting.call(state, state.actingSeatIndex);
+        Betting.closeStreet(state);
+        return state;
+    };
+
+    test("a pot raise facing a bet is three times the bet plus the dead money", () => {
+        const state = flopWithBet();
+        const potBefore = Betting.potSoFar(state);         // $6 carried over
+        const bettor = state.actingSeatIndex;
+        Betting.raiseTo(state, bettor, 10);
+
+        const raiser = state.actingSeatIndex;
+        // Call $10, pot becomes $26, raise $26 → $36. Which is 3×10 + 6.
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, raiser), 36);
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, raiser), 3 * 10 + potBefore);
+    });
+
+    test("half pot facing that bet is $23", () => {
+        const state = flopWithBet();
+        Betting.raiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex, 10);
+        // Call $10, pot becomes $26, raise $13 → $23.
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex, 0.5), 23);
+    });
+
+    test("facing no bet at all it is a plain pot-sized bet", () => {
+        const state = flopWithBet();
+        assert.equal(state.currentBet, 0, "nobody has bet the flop");
+        assert.equal(Betting.toCall(state, state.seats[state.actingSeatIndex]), 0);
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex), Betting.potSoFar(state));
+    });
+});
+
+describe("it stays sane at the edges", () => {
+    test("a seat that doesn't exist gets zero rather than throwing", () => {
+        const state = makeTable({ seatCount: 6, seated: [0, 1], stack: 100 });
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, 99), 0);
+    });
+
+    test("the amount is always at least a call", () => {
+        // A raise-to below the current bet would be nonsense to offer. Every fraction
+        // from a tenth up lands at or above what the player owes.
+        const state = makeTable({ seatCount: 6, seated: [0, 1, 2, 3], stack: 200 });
+        Betting.beginHand(state);
+        const index = state.actingSeatIndex;
+        [0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1].forEach(fraction => {
+            assert.ok(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, index, fraction) >= state.currentBet,
+                `${fraction} of the pot should still cover the bet`);
+        });
+    });
+
+    test("cent-sized blinds don't drift", () => {
+        const state = makeTable({ seatCount: 6, seated: [0, 1, 2], stack: 20, smallBlind: 0.05, bigBlind: 0.1 });
+        Betting.beginHand(state);
+        // Pot $0.15, owes $0.10: call to $0.25, raise $0.25 → $0.35.
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex), 0.35);
+    });
+});
+
+describe("the amounts are ones the table can actually build", () => {
+    const CENTS = [{ value: 0.25 }, { value: 0.05 }, { value: 0.01 }];
+    const DOLLARS = [{ value: 1 }, { value: 5 }, { value: 25 }, { value: 100 }];
+
+    const table = (legend, smallBlind, bigBlind, stack = 200) => {
+        const state = makeTable({ seatCount: 6, seated: [0, 1, 2, 3], stack, smallBlind, bigBlind });
+        state.chipLegend = legend;
+        Betting.beginHand(state);
+        return state;
+    };
+
+    test("a half-pot that lands on a half chip is rounded up, not offered as it is", () => {
+        const state = table(DOLLARS, 1, 2);
+        // Honestly $4.50. No dollar chip makes fifty cents.
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex, 0.5), 5);
+        assert.equal(Money.chipBreakdown(5, DOLLARS).remainder, 0);
+    });
+
+    test("up rather than down — a shaved pot bet is not a pot bet", () => {
+        const state = table(DOLLARS, 1, 2);
+        assert.ok(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex, 0.5) > 4.5);
+    });
+
+    test("an amount the chips already make is left exactly alone", () => {
+        const state = table(DOLLARS, 1, 2);
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex), 7, "the pot raise was already whole");
+    });
+
+    test("a cent table keeps its cents", () => {
+        const state = table(CENTS, 0.05, 0.1);
+        // Pot $0.15, owes $0.10: call to $0.25, raise $0.25 → $0.35, which cent chips make.
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex), 0.35);
+        assert.equal(Money.chipBreakdown(0.35, CENTS).remainder, 0);
+    });
+
+    test("a legend that plainly isn't for these stakes is not applied", () => {
+        // Dollar chips on a 5c/10c game means somebody never filled the legend in.
+        // Rounding those blinds up to whole dollars would be the tool doing real
+        // damage on the strength of a stale field, so the amounts stay exact and the
+        // wrong legend stays visible.
+        const state = table(DOLLARS, 0.05, 0.1);
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex), 0.35);
+    });
+
+    test("a table with no legend at all gets exact amounts", () => {
+        const state = table([], 1, 2);
+        assert.equal(Betting.potRaiseTo(state, state.actingSeatIndex, 0.5), 4.5);
+    });
+
+    test("every fraction comes out buildable, and never shaved", () => {
+        const state = table(DOLLARS, 1, 2);
+        const index = state.actingSeatIndex;
+        const potAfterCall = Betting.potSoFar(state) + Betting.toCall(state, state.seats[index]);
+
+        [0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1].forEach(fraction => {
+            const value = Betting.potRaiseTo(state, index, fraction);
+            const exact = state.currentBet + potAfterCall * fraction;
+            assert.ok(value >= exact, `${fraction} of the pot should never be rounded down`);
+            assert.ok(value - exact < 1, `${fraction} of the pot should round by less than a chip`);
+            assert.equal(Money.chipBreakdown(value, DOLLARS).remainder, 0,
+                `${fraction} of the pot should be buildable from the table's chips`);
+        });
+    });
+});