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Two things on the felt and the bar that were spending weight on the wrong
half of what they had to say.

The undo pill names the last action, and on a phone it had stopped doing
it. It is a fixed width — its text changes on every tap, and a control
that resizes under a thumb reads as the interface twitching — and that
width leaves the label 73px. Measured across one hand, four of the five
labels a hand produces wanted more:

  ↶ dealing the hand        104     ↶ Christopher's fold      109
  ↶ Mike from work's fold   128     ↶ Alexandra's fold        100
  ↶ Dee's fold               69  (the only one that fitted)

so the safety net spent most of a night reading "↶ dealing …". Cut as one
string it keeps the wrong half: "↶ Mike from wor…" names everybody except
the action. So an action's name is handed to commit() in two halves now —
who it was, and what they did — and the actor comes off whole when the
act cannot fit beside it. The whole sentence stays on the button's title
and aria-label, which is what the guidance asks of a control that has had
to shorten its own name.

Two things fell out of it. The label cannot overflow — the act inside it
is the item with `overflow: hidden`, so it swallows the excess and the row
measures as though everything fitted — which is why the fit asks the act
and not the label; asked the label, "↶ dealing the hand" kept its actor
and quietly cut "the hand" off inside it. And the pill was still printing
a keycap on phones: every other control on the bar has dropped its cap
under `hover: none` since that rule was written, but this one is a
different class and had been left out of it, so the narrowest label on the
bar was the only one spending 22px on a shortcut nothing could press.
That 22px is exactly what "raise to $1,200" needed to keep its digits.

Nothing is cut now at any viewport in the sweep: a phone reads "↶ the
hand", "↶ Dee's fold", "↶ raise to $20", "↶ call"; a desktop and the
landscape rail keep the actor wherever it fits.

And the empty chairs. An open seat was drawn as a whole puck of near-black
on the green — the same box a seated player gets, at the same weight,
saying nothing. Five players nine-handed is four of them, and on the felt
they read as holes punched in the table: the eye had to sort the loud
empty boxes from the loud full ones before it could find who was in the
hand. The wash was there for one reason, which is that the chair number's
contrast cannot depend on whether its chair sits over the rim, the dark
green or the light — about Lc 5 across one ring. So the wash moved off the
chair and under the number, which is the only thing an open chair has to
say. The dashes still say "open", the box a thumb lands on has not moved a
pixel, and the felt gets four boxes' worth of quiet back.

1039 unit tests; 418 layout audits across 13 viewports, clean.

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