Always used Bicycle cheap and easy to find.
Copag seems to be the new favorite in the home game i go to.
Look and feel pretty good and last well.
Well we havent been using them for to long so dont know about the bleeding but there already cheaper then the 1$ once witch we used before and replaced weakly.I like the Copags a lot initially but we've had problems with colors bleeding onto the backs of the next card. Contacted Copag and they refused to replace them.
We now use Modianos but are about to try Bicycle Prestige, desjgn and Fournier.
I use birchbark
See here.
One of the only issues I have found with using an expensive deck such as KEM is the "fresh only deck players". In my usual cash game 2 of the players insist on a fresh deck being opened in full view before our game starts. Annoying as hell.
Ban them. Or keep a couple paper decks around just for them.
As noted:
Unfortunately they are the 2 biggest fish in the game.