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Originally Posted by YourIdeas
50 cards per game, and I'm thinking that for team matches, each separate game (5 in a team) should have its own random set of cards. The anime just likes these multiple luck-of-the-draw moments and the scenes where all five members of Mizusawa swipe at the Chihayaburu card.
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I've read most every link from a search for "competitive team karuta" and do not see any indication that the players hold the same hands. Everything indicates that they each deal twenty-five of the hundred cards and arrange them as they wish.
The writers and directors often choose probabilistically unlikely events to heighten the drama on screen. In Tsutomu's decisive match against Akashi Girls, there were six cards left of which two were on the field. All four unmatched cards were read first, and event that happens only 6.7% of the time.
By the way, my search turned up
this useful page on the Chihayafuru wiki with descriptions and illustrations of strategies and moves used in karuta.