Azeroth Hold'em Poker

0.1.0-beta.6 — 2026-10-23

Added

• Table size, 2 to 9 seats (lobby slider, or /poker create 1 2 9).
  • 3 seats keep hand-placed chairs; other sizes sit on an ellipse, seat 1 at the bottom, clockwise. Seats shrink to 90 % from 5 seats and to 80 % from 7.
  • Practice tables fill every other seat with a bot.
• No-rebuy (freezeout) (lobby toggle, or /poker create 1 2 9 norebuy).
  • Everyone starts with 100 big blinds.
  • No rebuy, no add-on, and no new seat once the game has started. Bots do not refill either.
  • A busted player shows "out". When one player holds every chip, the table announces "X wins the game!" and stops dealing.
  • The host's button becomes NEW GAME, which puts every seated player back to the starting stack.
• /poker create and /poker practice take [sb] [bb] [seats] [norebuy].

Changed

• Wire format (T6) so a 9-seat table fits Forever's throttle.
  • RO (roster: settings and who sits where) is sent only when it changes, to a joiner, and on request (RQ).
  • ST is now compact and public: the same body for every player, own hole cards by whisper (HL) only.
  • When two or more remote players are all in the host's party or raid, ST, RO, HS and PF go once through the group channel instead of once per player; otherwise they go by whisper, as before.
  • Simulated 9-player table: the host sent 59 messages for about 2.5 hands. The old format would have needed 8 whispers of 4-5 chunks per action.
• Players who have joined but not sat down keep receiving the table.
• Chips are whole units internally (AZH.COPPER_PER_GOLD = 1): no more fractional chips, and every amount is four digits shorter on the wire.
• Lobby: blinds shown as chips ("1 / 2"), "Ledger" button, "Play chips only" line.

Fixed

• The table window would have been rebuilt at every opening once it had more than 3 seat widgets.

Tests

• 37 tests per runtime.
• 300 hands at a full 9-seat table, chips conserved.
• A 9-seat freezeout played to a single winner, then reset.
• 9 simulated clients in one group with a throttle (10 messages, then 1 per second): every guest ends with the host's table and its own hole cards.
• No-rebuy end to end with two clients: rebuy refused, game over seen by the guest, new game.
• UI smoke test: a 9-seat no-rebuy practice table, played to the winner banner and the NEW GAME button.