How does seat rotation work?
Here’s how the NMJL says it’s done: “Original East” is called “Pivot.” Play 2 rounds. (A round is when the deal moves all around the table.) Then just before pivot’s turn, she switches seats with the player on the right, who then takes the deal. Every other time the deal comes back to Pivot, repeat the process (Pivot switches seats with player on right). However, if you analyze this, you find that this scheme results in one player getting an extra deal. So I recommend instead the way that my group does it. When Pivot switches seats with the player on the right, the Pivot takes the dice (and the deal) with her. And we don’t switch every 2 rounds – we just rotate every round (every time the dice come back to the Pivot player). In our group the Pivot is the current week’s host or hostess.
