<hr/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Dealing the cards</em></span></span></div><hr/><br/>If your character is the dealer of the round, you as the player are basically also the dealer of the round. Your character does not participate in the rounds that he or she is the dealer (since you would know the cards of your opponents).<br/><br/>If you have a suit of cards at hand, you can of course use that suit (make sure it has 52 cards, not 32. If it has 54 or 55 cards, remove the jokers/wild cards. Perform the following steps without shuffling in between:<br/>Draw three cards and write them privately down as the flop.<br/>Draw one additional card, and write it privately down as the turn.<br/>Draw one additional card, and write it privately down as the river.<br/>For each player other than yourself, draw two additional cards. Write these down as well, so you can check on them if needed (for example, the player accidentally deletes his PM), and then send a forum PM to the player, stating what cards his or her character received.<br/>Make an IC post describing your character shuffling the deck and deal each player two cards.<br/>When it is time for the flop, turn or river, make an IC post, describing your character revealing those cards. Make sure it's clear to the players which cards these involve.<br/><br/>If you do not have a suit of cards at hand, random.org is your friend:<br/>Visit http://www.random.org/playing-cards/ (http://www.random.org/playing-cards/)<br/>On the first entry box, increase the number of cards to draw. To keep it simple, simply enter 52 in the entry box.<br/>Keep the number of shuffled decks to 1.<br/>Keep all options under Deck Configuration enabled, except for the two joker options, which must remain disabled.<br/>If you want, you can enable "Show cards as text instead of images". It makes it easier to copy-paste the results if you want to store the information as a local document on your computer.<br/>Finally, press Draw Cards. You should receive a list of 52 cards.<br/>Follow the steps above, only instead of drawing an actual card, read the next card from the list.<br/>Always show 52 cards at the same time and draw all cards from that one list, instead of requesting only a few cards at a time, to prevent a single card ending up in more than a single player's hand.<br/><br/>Be sure to save the cards for the flop, turn and river as you determine the initial cards. If you would determine them later, you need to make sure they're not identical to cards already owned by players.<br/>If burning cards is something you care strongly about, you can of course change the order as well as skip cards as you decide which card goes to whom, as long as you make up your mind before you actually see the cards. Your character is of course expected to "burn the cards" regardless of you burning the cards or not.<br/><br/><hr/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Characters</em></span></span></div><hr/>