Document the three sequential block confirmations behind the draw/payout timing

CLAUDE.md and the user/admin guides only mentioned "a confirmed block" for
the draw, leaving the actual end-to-end timing (why it can take several
minutes after the countdown hits zero) unclear. Spell out the three distinct
confirmations in sequence — last pending bet, draw block, payout tx — and
the resulting best/worst-case wall-clock estimates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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PLAY and WITHDRAW share a **per-user DB lock**: a user can never have a bet-build and a withdrawal-build in flight at the same time, since both would otherwise spend from the same UTXO set on the user's dedicated address.
**Three separate on-chain confirmations, not one, between the timer hitting zero and the payout landing** — a common point of confusion, worth spelling out explicitly:
1. **Last bet's confirmation** (`scheduler.py`'s `_tick`, the `pending_count` check before `_close_and_draw`) — the round doesn't even flip to `"closing"` until every already-broadcast bet has its 1st confirmation. This can already have happened before the timer expired; it's the earliest of the three and not necessarily tied to the deadline at all.
2. **The draw block** (`_wait_for_next_block`, waits for `tip_height > tip_at_close`, where `tip_at_close` is recorded only once step 1 is done) — by construction this must be a **later, different block** than whichever one confirmed the last bet in step 1.
3. **Payout confirmation**`_trigger_payout` broadcasts only after step 2's block is known, then registers a `PendingTransaction(kind="payout")` that the same generic `ConfirmationPoller` (`app/tx/confirmation.py`) waits on independently — this needs **yet another, later block** than step 2's, since the payout can't be built before the winner is known.
So worst case (last bet confirms right at the deadline) is ~3 block times end-to-end; best case (all bets already confirmed before the timer hit zero) is ~2 (draw block + payout block). At PLM's 120s block time that's roughly 46 minutes worst case, 24 minutes best case — independent of `draw_animation_seconds`, which only sets a cosmetic minimum for the frontend animation.
## Admin dashboard and test UI
Two static single-page apps, served directly by FastAPI (`app/main.py` mounts `app/static/` and adds a dedicated `GET /admin` route) — no build step, no framework: