August 2008: SHUFFLING
The 2007 Laws (valid from 1st August 2008) state that after play has finished each player should shuffle his cards before returning them to the board. This is intended to prevent subsequent players from obtaining unauthorised information by examining the order in which cards were played. It may foil our attempt to provide interesting hands by using the ‘Club shuffle’. Consequently I shall be investigating whether hands are likely to revert to an excessive number of ‘Low No Trump’ distributions.
