This will be the play order, with the text in parentheses applying to the first round. They move down one spot every round, so next round Mark will deal, with Robert and Claire having the small and big blinds respectively. In the case that a player falls out of the tournament, the dealer is always moved 1 spot down, while the blinds are adjusted accordingly (which means that the blinds could skip over a player in such occasions).<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Mark (small blind)</li><li>Robert (big blind)</li><li>Claire</li><li>Shiva</li><li>Victoria</li><li>George</li><li>Kelly</li><li>Brynn (dealer)</li></ul><br/>As for dealing the cards:<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Either use a real deck of cards, or some program that can show cards in a random order (Solitaire that comes with Windows can suffice).</li><li>Make sure the deck has 52 cards, not 32. Also, remove all Jesters if applicable (or just ignore them and draw another card whenever you draw one).</li><li>Draw 2 cards per player, except for yourself. PM each player their cards.</li><li>Draw 5 more cards, and write these down somewhere.</li><li>Make an IC post about shuffling the cards and dealing them to the players.</li><li>Whenever everyone's done betting and raising, make another IC post describing the "flop", which would be the first three of the five additional cards you drew back then.</li><li>Later on, do the same for the "turn" and the "river", which would be the fourth and fifth card.</li><li>Finally, at the end of the game, whenever everyone still in displays their cards, check to make sure those are the cards they received originally.</li></ul><br/>Small note about burning. Officially, just before displaying the flop, turn and river, one card is moved from the deck to the discard pile. This way players can't see what's coming at them, in case some of the cards would be marked. Dealers are of course welcome to describe this process in the IC thread, but no additional bookkeeping is required, as we never get to see the card's face. You don't have to actually burn any cards when you draw them out at the start, but you could, if you'd consider it part of the game.<br/><br/>In case you didn't get the note about burning cards, just ignore it, it's of no importance :P