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Two shuffleboard players preparing a game on a ship's deck with cue-sticks. Shuffleboard is a game in which players use cues to push weighted discs, sending them gliding down a narrow court, with the purpose of having them come to rest within a marked scoring area.
shuffle Rearrange (a deck of cards) by sliding the cards over each other quickly.(verb) An act of shuffling a deck of cards. (noun) shut out Defeated without a single point. [102] side See partnership. side card A card of a side suit; a non-trump. [102] side money A bet in a side pot. [104] side payment
Shuffle algebra, a Hopf algebra with a basis corresponding to words on some set whose product is given by the shuffle product XшY of two words X, Y: the sum of all ways of interlacing them; Shuffle product, the shuffle product of words of lengths m and n is a sum over the (m+n)!/m!n! ways of interleaving the two words
even money When the dealer shows an ace and the player has a blackjack, the player can opt for even money and get paid immediately at 1:1. This is a version of insurance rather than a different bet.
Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company's economic output. That's because earnings are very often less ...
A faro shuffle that leaves the original top card at the top and the original bottom card at the bottom is known as an out-shuffle, while one that moves the original top card to second and the original bottom card to second from the bottom is known as an in-shuffle. These names were coined by the magician and computer programmer Alex Elmsley. [6]
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.
False shuffle/False cut – a shuffle or cut in which the deck is apparently mixed but, in reality, the portions of the original order is retained such as a top or bottom stock kept in order – also see Blind Shuffle. False transfer – a technique in which an object appears to be taken into one hand while actually being retained in the other.