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 | | After a deck of playing cards is shuffled, it is often given to a player other than the one who performed the shuffle for a procedure called a cut. |
 | | To cut the deck, the player removes as a unit roughly half of the cards from the top of the deck, placing that portion on the table next to the remaining cards, toward the dealer (by convention). |
 | | The term is also used for a random selection procedure in which a player perform the first part of a cut (removing a group of cards from the top of a deck), then look at the value of the card on the bottom of that portion, then replaces it. |
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