27. If a player break up a table, the others have a prior right of entry elsewhere.
SHUFFLING.
28. The pack must not be shuffled below the table nor so the face of any card be seen.
29. The dealer’s partner must collect the cards from the preceding deal and has the right to shuffle first. Each player has the right to shuffle subsequently. The dealer has the right to shuffle last, but should a card or cards be seen during his shuffling or while giving the pack to be cut, he must reshuffle.
30. After shuffling, the cards, properly collected, must be placed face downward to the left of the next dealer, where they must remain untouched until the end of the current deal.
THE DEAL.
31. Players deal in turn; the order of dealing is to the left.
32. Immediately before the deal, the player on the dealer’s right cuts, so that each packet contains at least four cards. If, in or after cutting and prior to the beginning of the deal, a card be exposed, or if any doubt exist as to the place of the cut, the dealer must reshuffle and the same player must cut again.
33. After the pack has been properly cut, it should not be reshuffled or recut except as provided in Law 32.
34. Should the dealer shuffle after the cut, his adversaries may also shuffle and the pack must be cut again.