I'm documenting everything about Pangea and Chips over the course of development here. The initial draft of BET written by jl777 is available here.
As defined in Pangea every entity in the game is associated with a key/value pair. If a player wants to play, he choses the DCV and the table size he is interested and joins the table.
When the game starts each player publishes the init message, which contains the player public key and the randomly shuffled deck of initial cards.
{
"method": "init",
"peerid": 0,
"range": 2,
"pubkey": "93bf6af448febc759e763a17e0de3709b3f432c2958b30dd3db05928a316a55a",
"playercards": ["e8e7c76ad79c914029d81f21c1b1697c779042f5d1e3060aa28a853e8f15d73f",
"42726671348e7ad3c322a9f81dbe5ee369b3af3f3c70e0beb6482dae9825261d"]
}