four colour deck

why is a standard deck of cards only two colors ?
it seems to me a four color deck (different color for each suit)
makes much more sense.
is this a traditional thing or to do with cost ?
why don't online poker rooms use a four color deck
by default, instead of having to change from 2 colors ?
i presume you can buy a 4 color pack of cards, are these
more expensive to make ?
with poker software its easy to have 4 colors with no extra
cost.
is anyone still using a 2 color deck online ?
just curious.

I agree 100% - I always opt for the 4 color deck. I guess it is just traditional to have 2 colors. My eyes are not good enough - I need 4 lol.

Once upon a time there was only black. Printing costs et al. Huge improvement when they added a second color.

I was a big bridge player, and never saw 4 color decks until I saw online poker. And while I haven't shopped for cards in years, I would imagine 4 color decks can be bought.

Online 4 color decks should be standard IMHO. Then you could opt for the 2 color version, or what the hell, opt for a 1 color version....We don't need no stinking color!

When Mike Caro introduced 4 color deck to the poker world in 92? it is said that the regs hated them but the beginners at low limits loved them, meaning donkeys like shiny colors.

I like shiny colors

I hate the 4 color decks

I prefer to play the 2 color deck, but that's because I only played one time with the 4 color deck. I guess I thought it was weird because I'm not used.

I started using 4 colors when I started multi tabling. My eyes are not the greatest and it was sometimes necessary to wear my glasses and I dont like to wear them if I dont need to. Now I am so used to it, that I will never go vack to 2 color decks.

I hate the four colour ones, Traditional all the way.

Although I wasn't saying that the other day when I stacked of ace high thinking I had a flush

I hated them, but I find them good for mixed games. I still have a problem using them in holdem. And in person I didn't like them either. Guess it just depends on the person.

I love them, makes it easier to identify obvious draws when you're multitabling, and play with them live at my University Poker Society

In the LIVE arena, when you are only playing 1 hand at a time, its easy, buy multi-tabling on-line, 4 colours come in very handy.

just googled 4 colour deck, these look sweet:
4 Colour Copag Cards: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen...

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They're really nice to play live with

I all ways find myself having to recheck my cards every time I've used a 4 color deck in a live game.

i hate 2 colour deck.... can even amagin i play with 2 colours
only 4 colours

i think comparing a 2 color deck to a 4 color deck
is like comparing windows95 to windows 7.

I didn't like them at first, tradition and what not. Now though that is one of the first settings I look for when I load a new client/skin. Definitely helps me when multitabling.

Maybe we should bring back this poll
Do you use a 4 colour deck
Sorry for the lack of cake or bastard

I think I'm an odd one out because I still use two-colour decks online.

Mostly it's because I have to work with two-colour decks when I deal live games and I don't want to run the risk of getting my brain wired for four colours and starting to miscall live hands. My boss wouldn't be too pleased if I started awarding people pots just because they had five red cards...

Plus I've never played more than about six or eight tables at a time online so misreading hands in the rush has never been a big issue for me.

4 color Deck always ......

Mistaken Flush

^^^Valid exception......

don't they use 4 color decks in casino's ?
seems a bit 'behind the times' to me.
i never play live in casino's but if i did,
i would deffo want a 4 color deck.

Not in any casino I've ever played at.

yes,,,I always use a four color deck,,,I'm 65 years old ,,,with multi tables,,,hell I barely see the numbers,,,,lol

Not in any casino that I've every seen or heard of either - maybe it's a tradition thing, but miscalling hands because of card colours is a much smaller issue in live games because the pace is slower, you're only playing one table at a time and there are multiple people at the table able to pick up mistakes.

I always use 2 color deck. Tried the 4 color option, but just didn't like how shining the green and blue are, especially the green. But after reading the previous comments, maybe I'll give it a try, guess it probably is a "getting use to it" thing. Besides, my astigmatism isn't getting any better, so using 4 color deck would only help avoiding posible "flush" mistakes.

What next, 4 color roulette?

had never really tried it but after playing my moms puter and her settings at the rooms she plays i was playing 4 color and isnt too bad once you get used to it. just different i guess.

I tried the 4 color deck once and found it very distracting, Maybe bacause I have been using the 2 color deck since I was little, but I really didn't like it enough to try to adjust.

I need the 4 color deck. My eyes are not verry good. I used the 2 collor deck but multitabling i found mayself sometimes calling with nut flush when there was no flush on the table I only have this problem when there are spades and clubs on the table. When multitabling damn spades look like clubs because they are tiny.

*chooses to take a rhetorical question literally*

Well no, because the colours in roulette are an important part of the game mechanics whereas using a four-colour deck in poker has no material effect on how the game is played.

I take your point about tradition though.

I prefer the two colors deck, but I cant mutitable without four colour deck, its hard for me to see the cards with small windows :P

I guess I could see the advantage while multi-tabling, but I've never had the desire to play more than one table. And I have never given any thought to using a 4 color deck until I read ths thread, so i gave it a try and I can honestly say it totally messed with my head. So I rekon I'll stick to traditional!!!

that is because you probably never gave it enough time.
i think once you become familiar with a four color deck
you will never revert to two colors.
especially in regards to flushes.

I'm just wondering, do people really misread their hands that often because they only use a two-colour deck?

There's obviously going to be an element of selective recall in this, but as I said above I've always used two-colour decks online. I would have played hundreds of thousands of hands on up to eight tables at a time and I don't think I've ever had any real issue with misreading. I'm sure it's probably happened at some point but I'm also sure that the number of times it's happened would pale into insignificance compared to the number of general misclick errors I would have made. I'm not some stick-in-the-mud traditionalist that would stay with two-colour decks if I thought it was costing me money. Am I an odd one out or something?