Poker.Com Playing Cards
I was lucky enough to spend some time with a couple of the guys involved with Poker.Com's online card room. I ended up with a deck of their promotional playing cards before it was all over.
This same deck of cards would cost me 10,000 comp points at the Poker.Com player store. It's a plastic deck which puts it into the "useful things" category. Paper decks simply wear out far too quickly.
The print on the back of the cards is a dark black background with the gold and burgundy shaded Poker.Com logo, surrounded by white. It really is a striking print job.
The cards are housed in a plastic container, and the deck comes shrink-wrapped. The deck has 54 cards, which includes 2 jokers. The jokers seem to be more of a promotional card that designed for use, which is fine. Most players aren't playing games with jokers anyway.
The have a bonus offer printed on them, and a bonus code that unlocks both a deposit offer and entry into a series of freerolls.
The cards are "bridge-sized" cards, or the more narrow 2 5/16" wide variety. While my personal tastes lean towards the wider, poker sized cards, the bridge-sized cards are the more popular size.
The printing on the cards is in the standard index size. That, combined with the narrow size, makes the deck ideal for games like Gin Rummy, where players hold a large number of cards in their hand, and smaller print and card size help to keep the cards from becoming too cumbersome.
A deck of 52 cards comes in at .5591 inches, so they aren't "thick". But, they aren't flimsy either. Actually, when shuffling them, they have a body to them without feeling stiff. In short, they're good cards.
These cards are right in the category of decks where personal preference in things like card size and print size wshould weigh in more heavily than "quality" because the cards are of a perfectly fine quality. Whether you find yourself getting a lot of use out of them, or shelving them will depend more on your tastes that whether or not the cards can stand up to the job.
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