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