ST.CATHARINES CRIBBAGE LEAGUE
8. During the game the visiting team must not change tables from which they start, but may change chairs. If any player of the home team in moving plays a completed game at a wrong table, that team shall be assessed two penalty points.
9. All play to be continuous. Unnecessary breaks are not permitted. A maximum ten minute smoke break after the fifth game is allowed.
10. The home team shall provide suitable playing cards and cribbage boards, and must have a rule book available. New cards are to be provided at the beginning of the season and at the beginning of the second half. Marked, disfigured or badly used cards must not be used. Only standard boards with two rows of holes on each side, and thirty holes to a row are to be used. A fine shall be assessed against the home team if a rule book is required and one is not available. This to be noted on the weekly score card’s remarks section.
11. It is the Captains or representatives responsibility to provide cribbage boards visibly numbered from one to five. These boards to be set up in numerical sequence in a clockwise rotation.
12. At all League games the home Captain or team representative is responsible for the signing and posting of all score cards. Scores are to be phoned in or E-mailed to the League Secretary no later than eleven A.M. the next day. Failure results in the Captain being fined. Fines at the discretion of the Executive.
13. Ace is low in cutting, court cards are the same value as a ten spot, lowest card deals.
14. The dealer must shuffle the cards, and the player on his right must cut the cards before the start of each deal, player on the dealer’s left cuts for the turn up.
15. In any cut no fewer than four cards to be lifted and no fewer than four cards to be left on the table.
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