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Cards dealt to the table as a skat or widow. blocking Blocking a suit is keeping a high card back so that the player with a number of smaller cards cannot win tricks with them. [22] bluff. To attempt to deceive one's opponent(s) about the value of cards in one's hand. [23]
The last card dealt to the board in community card games. Also see river. The fifth card dealt to each player in stud poker. fill, fill up To successfully draw to a hand that needs one card to complete it, by getting the last card of a straight, flush, or full house. final table The last table in a multi-table poker tournament.
To shuffle the cards, the dealer follows a sequence defined by the casino. First all cards are spread out on the table and pushed around randomly. This is called "scrambling" or "washing" the cards. Then the cards are collected and squared into a deck. At this point a typical shuffling sequence might be: riffle, riffle, box, riffle.
Cards lifted after a riffle shuffle, forming what is called a bridge which puts the cards back into place After a riffle shuffle, the cards cascade. A common shuffling technique is called the riffle, or dovetail shuffle or leafing the cards, in which half of the deck is held in each hand with the thumbs inward, then cards are released by the thumbs so that they fall to the table interleaved.
Most games use a standardized and unchanging board (chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board), but some games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even during gameplay. game component See component. game equipment See equipment. game piece See piece. gameplay
Board. One particular allocation of 52 cards to the four players including the bidding, the play of the cards and the scoring based on those cards. Also called deal or hand. A device that keeps each player's cards separate for duplicate bridge. The dummy's hand. For example, "You're on the board" means "The lead is in the dummy".
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The Back-7 Line crosses the entire court. A center-line runs from the middle of the Back-7-line up the middle of the court for 6 feet (1.8 m). The two 7 score zones are located on each side of the Center-Line, for a length of 3 feet, bounded at the top by the Back-8 line, running side to side across and within the scoring triangle;