Count the house's cut instead of calling it missing chips

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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

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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

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