After receiving their initial two cards, players have the option of getting a " hit " ( taking additional cards ) to bring their total value of cards to 21 points, or as close as possible without exceeding 21 ( called " busting ").

After all boxes have finished playing, the dealer's hand is resolved by drawing cards until the hand busts or achieves a value of 17 or higher ( a dealer total of 17 including an ace, or " soft 17 ", must be drawn to in some games and must stand in others ).

After receiving an initial two cards, the player has up to four standard options: " hit ," " stand ," " double down ," or " split ".

After the contract has been established, the play of the cards proceeds as in most trick-taking card games until all thirteen tricks have been played with the result that the declaring side has either succeeded or failed in fulfilling their part of the contract.

" After some initial trials with paper tape, he settled on punched cards ..." Hollerith came to use punched cards after observing how railroad conductors encoded personal characteristics of each passenger with punches on their tickets.

After the dealing is complete, the next card is turned face up, and the suit of this card determines the trump suit for the deal, which is why only up to 12 cards are dealt in a four-player match.

After this, the number of cards per player decreases by one every round.

After the cards are dealt, the player to the left of the big blind is the first to act during the first betting round.

After everyone has made their decision, the replacement cards are dealt starting at the dealer's left as usual.

After a riffle shuffle, the cards cascade

After a deck of cards is shuffled by the dealer, it is often given to a player other than the one who performed the shuffle for a procedure called a cut.

After the shuffle, the dealer will offer a cut to the player on their right, then distribute the cards.

After receiving the cards, the bid winner examines what will create the strongest hand and then discards an equal number of cards back to their partner.

After the Télécarte, microchips were integrated into all French Carte Bleue debit cards in 1992.

After Mantle's death, Greer Johnson was taken to federal court in November 1997 by the Mantle family to stop her from auctioning many of Mantle's personal items, including a lock of hair, a neck brace, and expired credit cards.

After the deal and before the first lead, each player must select three of his dealt cards and pass them covertly to his left-hand neighbour, and then accept three cards from his right-hand neighbour.

After acquiring the Lancaster Caramel Company in 1900, the American Caramel Company became famous by including baseball and other cards in with their candies.

After the cards have been dealt, players lay cards in turn onto the pick up pile, starting with the first player to lay a four.

After cards are dealt, the Scum must hand over their two strongest cards to the President, while the Vice-Scum must hand over their one strongest card to the Vice President.

After a while, Kitty murmured something to Cappy, and he held her close, answering, `` We'll just have to wait till we pull into Philly, honey ''.

After all, a guy's gotta have a little ego!!

After you have taken a breather, reverse the position of your legs so that the front thigh of the previous exercise is now to the rear, and the rear thigh now to the front, and perform the same movement in the same manner.

After the factors just described have been computed, they are applied to the following formula: Af

After it has been seen, have the child start on a mat on hands and knees ( a thin, inexpensive mat is quite sufficient for anything that does not require falling ).

After all, if you were going to set up a workshop you had to have the proper equipment and that was that.

After the male and female andrenas have mated, the cycle is repeated.

After they have developed concepts, they are free from the necessity of manipulating objects ; ;

After being closed for seven months, the Garden of the Gods Club will have its gala summer opening Saturday, June 3.

After paying tribute to the conductor and his white-clad youthful students, President Kennedy said, `` As an American I have the greatest possible pride in the work that is being done in dozens of schools stretching across the United States -- schools where devoted teachers are studying with interested young men and women and opening up the whole wide horizon of serious music ''.

After all this destruction of old literature, it should be obvious why we have so little information about the early history and development of the Lo Shu, which was already semisecret anyhow.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

After a while she said with sort of an unuttered laugh, `` You have snow in your hair and ears ''.

After the records of the property have been traced and the title has been found clear, it is sometimes guaranteed, or insured.

After 1180 BC, the Hittite empire disintegrated into several independent " Neo-Hittite " states, subsequent to losing much territory to the Middle Assyrian Empire and being finally overrun by the Phrygians, another Indo-European people who are believed to have migrated from The Balkans.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

After Lt Gen Barshadli became Chief of General Staff, subsequent defense ministers from 1992 have included:

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.

After this point, he was said to have gone insane.

After this failed, he devised a collapsable boat, which would either have its cabin fall in or become shipwrecked.

After the battle, according to a tradition reported by Paul the Deacon, to be granted the right to sit at his father's table, Alboin had to ask for the hospitality of a foreign king and have him donate his weapons, as was customary.

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.

After about 125 BC, the eponyous archon, and probably the others, were normally prominent men, and this oligarchic tendency appears to have been produced by a system of election.

After a player places a tile, and the results of that placement have been handled, he may purchase up to three shares of stock.