jheapsandClaude Opus 5
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Sitting down between the button and the big blind means the blinds have gone past you. The tool dealt those players straight in, silently. Measured: Eve takes a seat, and the next hand she is dealt cards in late position having put nothing in — a free hand, out of everyone else's night a couple of dollars at a time, with nothing anywhere on screen to tell the dealer it had happened. At a table there are two answers and the player picks one: post the big blind and come in now, or wait for the blind to reach them. The tool did neither and named neither. The deal prompt now names anyone about to be dealt in who has not paid for it, and carries the post as one tap. Nothing is forced — a home game that doesn't care can deal as before, and the sentence is still worth having on its own, because the dealer at least knows. The post goes in as a big blind out of that player's own stack, is live like any blind, and is spent at the end of the hand rather than becoming a standing charge. Somebody back from sitting out is owed one the same as a newcomer. The big blind of the hand isn't — they're already paying — and neither is anyone at a table that has not dealt a hand yet, where the whole table is new and nobody has been skipped. Deliberately one line for however many have walked up, not one each: the bar is docked over the felt and the felt has already shrunk as far as it goes on a phone, so every line costs seat area. A line apiece put the bar over two fifths of the bottom seat at 390x844. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb