The crib is set aside face down and neither player look at it until the end of the round.The cards in the crib will count for the dealer so its generally better for the dealer to play higher ranked cards to the crib and better for the non-dealer to play lower ranked cards to the crib. Each player will play 2 cards from their hand of 6 facedown to 'the crib'.Shuffle the deck once more and deal 6 cards to each player.If cards are tied for rank (low to high: A-K), they draw again until one card is lower.
Normally for game of Cribbage, each player would cut the deck and reveal the bottom card of their deck and the player with the lower card would be dealer.
