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Looking at the various (BridgeWebs) Bridge Clubs on-line I can see that some clubs display the hands played which is interesting/useful. I know there is some way of having a card dealing machine records these details but these machines are expensive. I can also see that some of these clubs displaying the hands aren't very big . .have they found in inexpensive way of doing this; is there an inexpensive way of doing this?
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producing random deals.
this web site. Each edition is numbered, the latest is numbered 141.
The primary alternative is to create the hands in a dealing programme and then pre-deal the boards by hand before the event. This has to be done by a non-player of course. I run quite a few duplicates each week and before I had a dealing machine, my house-elf for this particular task was the non-bridge playing Mrs P who did it very well but needed frequent infusions of coffee and cash and went on strike beyond two sets of boards a week.
Just to update my original post here. Of course it wasn't that so much that we needed help in dealing, what we wanted was a means of displaying the hands played so that we could review our individual performance. The hand dealing machined produce a .dup or .pbn file which can be picked up by Bridgewebs. I found a programme (see below link) which cost about £13 and does the job. We create curtain cards and volunteers enter the hands into the programme and it creates the .pbn file. Yes it's a little arduous and time consuming (it takes about 90 minutes to do it) but it can be done in stages.
http://www.bridgecomposer.com/
Asking your players to sort the cards after playing the last round will save time. Sorting is time-consuming, but dealing takes hardly any time at all.
The 90 minutes is the time taken to enter the hands (previously dealt and played) into the software that creates the .pbn file that is picked up and displayed on the web site
So you play the hands and THEN enter them into the computer?
CORRECT :-)