New Zealand Gazette – 1996 – No. 7

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✨ Casino Rules



26 JANUARY NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

(a) chemmy shuffled (washing of cards);

(b) stacked; and

(c) riffle shuffled.

7.0 Shuffle and Cut of Cards

7.1 The dealer shall shuffle the cards so that they are randomly intermixed:

(a) immediately before the start of play;

(b) at the completion of the round during which the or the first cutting card, as the case may be, is drawn as the first card (refer rule 9.8),

(c) at the completion of the round following the round during which the or the first cutting card, as the case may be, appears otherwise than as the first card (refer rule 9.7);

(d) at the recommencement of play following any period that the table has been vacant.

7.2 After the cards have been shuffled, they shall be cut. The dealer shall offer the stack of cards, with the backs facing away from him/her, to the players to be cut. The dealer shall begin with the player seated in the lowest number position at the table and, working clockwise around the table, shall offer the stack to each player until a player accepts the cut. If no player accepts the cut, an authorised casino employee shall cut the cards.

7.3 The person designated in rule 7.2 shall cut the cards by placing the cutting card or one of the cutting cards, as the case may be, in the stack at least one deck in from either end. The dealer shall remove all of the cards in front of the cutting card to the back of the stack and then insert the cutting card at least twenty cards in from the back of the stack. Where a second cutting card is used, it shall be placed at the back of the stack.

7.4 The stack of cards shall then be inserted in the dealing shoe for commencement of play, following which the dealer shall burn the cards, that is:

(a) remove the first card from the shoe face up;

(b) draw, face down, additional cards equal in number to the face value of the first card drawn; and

(c) place the first and additional cards drawn in the discard rack.

7.5 For the purposes of rule 7.4 a ten, jack, queen, and king shall have a face value of ten and an ace a face value of one.



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