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Recently I bought a pack of royal plastic playing cards, which I was not happy with as most of the cards were marked or had some dents in them. One pack had a hole in one of the cards. I am getting refunded on them and wont be buying them again. I have now ordered copaq pokerstars and I am still waiting for them to be delivered.

What cards do you have?
 
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copags r the best plastic playing cards for your money.
 
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Also i buy them at discount poker.com 2 decks for 15bucks.
 
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im going to be going to macao in china next month for vacation and im going to be getting the best pokerstars or ept suitacase of chips and professional cards. i really need that so i can invite all my friends that suck at poker to my house and take all their money. HEHHEHEE.lol
 
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Use Copags at work and at home, they're absolutely fine. I'm not convinced they're the best cards on the market (in particular the print tends to fade with heavy use) but they shuffle really well and they're reasonably long lasting. If you're just using them for home games they should last you for years.
 
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My cards have just arrived and I love them :))))

Agreed copag are a great make of plastic playing cards and not too expensive @£6.98
 
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Copags are fine for sure but I use KEMs and I love them because they last long and are very durable. Even though KEM is about double the prize of Copags I would recommend KEMs as well if anyone can't find Copags.
 
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How are copaqs compared to bicycle brand? Also has anyone tried the 4 color deck?
 
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Never tried royal plastic cards, but I always liked KEM playing cards.
 
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You haven't missed anything with the royal plastic cards. They are very cheap and it shows lol.

You get what you pay for :)
 
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My cards have just arrived and I love them :))))
You got them the next day. That is fast! How long did you have to wait for them?
How are copaqs compared to bicycle brand?
Do they last way longer? I only have Bicycle cards at home and they do not get used very much anymore now that I am playing online. Even home games are played 'battleship' style on PokerStars Home Games.

Can you put up a picture on here of what the cards look like?
 
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You got them the next day. That is fast! How long did you have to wait for them?

Do they last way longer? I only have Bicycle cards at home and they do not get used very much anymore now that I am playing online. Even home games are played 'battleship' style on PokerStars Home Games.

Can you put up a picture on here of what the cards look like?

They were despatched Friday and they arrived today. I will put pics of them up after as I have to charge my phone. I am not sure about if they last longer than bicycle as I have never used them.
 
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Here as promised is the cards, sorry was going to put them up last night but I had the message I could not post as I had already posted 10 times :)
 

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Here as promised is the cards, sorry was going to put them up last night but I had the message I could not post as I had already posted 10 times :)
Nice! deck.
 
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I just hope I get that hand when I play with them for real :D
 
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Thought I would show you the royals and show why I did not like them.
 

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U can't go wrong with Copaq or KEM
 
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Don't know if I have ever even seen Copaq's, but I used to play bridge, a lot, and the decks get shuffled much more in bridge than in poker, and we all loved KEM.
 
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This is what I grew up playing with. These are Vintage (that makes me feel old) KEM Normandie Club cellulose acetate playing cards from the '70s. We had five decks of them, three green and two brown (black).
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I didn't think there was anything remarkable about them when I was growing up. They were just the cards we played with at my house. We never played with a pack of Bicycle cards, or Bees, or Aviators, just these. What I didn't find remarkable, but do in hindsight, is that I remember my father having these cards from the time I was four or five. They weren't in boxes. Each deck was held together using a rubber band. My father was very specific as to how the rubber band should be wrapped around each deck so as not to damage the cards. We were still using those same decks of cards when I was seventeen. I actually found two decks (one green and one black) in a drawer at my parents house in GA when I was about twenty-five. They probably hadn't been used in some years at that point. I know the five decks we had received regular use over the years when I was growing up and what I would consider to be heavy use for a couple of years in there. I'd say they held up extremely well.

Over the years, as I saw how fast normal playing cards wore out, I would wonder where my father had gotten those amazing playing cards that had lasted so many years. One day I came across a picture of a deck of vintage KEM cards from the mid '30s that looked very familiar to me. I looked further into KEM cards and found that the cards pictured came from the Normandie Club in early '70s. The Normandie Club is the oldest Southern California card club in existence and is located in the city of Gardena, Ca., where I was born.
 
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This is what I grew up playing with. These are Vintage (that makes me feel old) KEM Normandie Club cellulose acetate playing cards from the '70s. We had five decks of them, three green and two brown (black).
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I didn't think there was anything remarkable about them when I was growing up. They were just the cards we played with at my house. We never played with a pack of Bicycle cards, or Bees, or Aviators, just these. What I didn't find remarkable, but do in hindsight, is that I remember my father having these cards from the time I was four or five. They weren't in boxes. Each deck was held together using a rubber band. My father was very specific as to how the rubber band should be wrapped around each deck so as not to damage the cards. We were still using those same decks of cards when I was seventeen. I actually found two decks (one green and one black) in a drawer at my parents house in GA when I was about twenty-five. They probably hadn't been used in some years at that point. I know the five decks we had received regular use over the years when I was growing up and what I would consider to be heavy use for a couple of years in there. I'd say they held up extremely well.

Over the years, as I saw how fast normal playing cards wore out, I would wonder where my father had gotten those amazing playing cards that had lasted so many years. One day I came across a picture of a deck of vintage KEM cards from the mid '30s that looked very familiar to me. I looked further into KEM cards and found that the cards pictured came from the Normandie Club in early '70s. The Normandie Club is the oldest Southern California card club in existence and is located in the city of Gardena, Ca., where I was born.
thats an amazing story man. so cool that you found the deck. its wierd how sometimes we grow up and suddenly start appreciating things differently. keep those cards safe man. thanks for sharing that lovely story with us.:icon_thum
 
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Wow that is an amazing story and they look in mint condition
 
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thats an amazing story man. so cool that you found the deck. its wierd how sometimes we grow up and suddenly start appreciating things differently. keep those cards safe man. thanks for sharing that lovely story with us.:icon_thum

Wow that is an amazing story and they look in mint condition

Unfortunately that picture is not a picture of my cards. Mine have been gone for quite some time now, I presume lost in a move back in 2000. Because I don't have the actual cards anymore, the story is my way explaining how I know where they came from and what timeframe they existed between. I would expect some people to be skeptical if I simply said that my family played with the same five decks of cards for over 12 years and that two decks still existed another 7 or 8 years after the last time I remembered playing with them. Plus, I've always written like a writer (I've been told more than once that I should write a book). So if you knew how much time I spent sitting here playing poker trying to remember exactly what these cards looked like, trying to picture the Aces and remember if there was any manufacturer information printed on them, you'd know that it's only natural that I put a fraction of that thought into telling you about them. On top of that, it's 6AM and I'm extremely bored.
 
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Use Copags at work and at home, they're absolutely fine. I'm not convinced they're the best cards on the market (in particular the print tends to fade with heavy use) but they shuffle really well and they're reasonably long lasting. If you're just using them for home games they should last you for years.

Next time I come down to Melbourne and hit the poker room at Crown, I gotta find ya mate. Never met a cardschat member yet.
 
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Next time I come down to Melbourne and hit the poker room at Crown, I gotta find ya mate. Never met a cardschat member yet.

I don't actually work at Crown - I work for a private company that does corporate functions etc. I play at Crown semi-regularly though :)
 
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I don't actually work at Crown - I work for a private company that does corporate functions etc. I play at Crown semi-regularly though :)

Ah, that sheds some light. Maybe we've even played at the same table before, that is if u play 2/3...
 
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