Possible Clues:

• Old dealer finally cut deck
• Poor about fifty for the lowest deck
• Needing four, not odds, cut deck
• Have it at the bottom of the vessel or cut it off
• Deck cut with four on top - then odds cut
• Deck hands trapped in cage with no opening
• Logical operation to cut the deck at the lowest point
• Men cut the deck
• Runs during game, back lower deck
• Deck officer's outside, cut