[Jay-Dizzle]

Is it possible to purchase any plastic playing cards the casinos use in their poker rooms, i know that copags and stuff are a very good card, but the cards i play with in my casino, are very different, and every dealer i ask, says the same thing, you cant buy them, im hoping someone knows of a way to get my sweaty little paws on some

[RadixLecti]

Where are you from? In Europe, Fournier cards are often used, I think.
I think some use Carta Mundi too.

[Rorshach]

Casino Brantford in Ontario uses custom Kems for poker and paper Aristocrats for Blackjack. You can buy all the Aristocrats you can carry for a dollar a deck, but the Kems are never sold. And I have asked every single dealer. I don't know what they do with them if they discard them, but I suspect they just destroy the deck if it becomes damaged or marked.

[famousramos]

Here is a link to some casino backs for sale (I am NOT affiliated with that auction.):

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-Decks-PLASTIC-...QQcmdZViewItem

I have used these same style green and brown colored backs for home games. I have noticed that when we use both decks to speed up the game, it is easy to mix up the decks with themselves. The green and brown are close in color. If you are not paying attention, a couple hole cards could get scooped into the other deck. Usually this when the lighting is not optimal (and when the players are not optimal either!!!).

Card rooms don't have this problem because the dealer has only one deck out at a time.

[Jay-Dizzle]

Originally Posted by Rorshach

Casino Brantford in Ontario uses custom Kems for poker and paper Aristocrats for Blackjack. You can buy all the Aristocrats you can carry for a dollar a deck, but the Kems are never sold. And I have asked every single dealer. I don't know what they do with them if they discard them, but I suspect they just destroy the deck if it becomes damaged or marked.

YES THEY DO!!!! i sat at a table and watch in horror as a dealer ripped up 3 cards as they were marked, DURING a conversation i was having about how much i would love a deck of those cards, and im from Ballarat, 1 hour drive from Melbourne, Australia

[B.C.]

Jay,

I think those cards at Crown are paper (plastic coated). Look on the net and order yourself some Kems or Copags.

You will find these are 10 times better than the casino ones anyway. I am currenty using 4 colour Copags and would never go back to the casino style cards.

[Jambine]

Originally Posted by Jay-Dizzle

Is it possible to purchase any plastic playing cards the casinos use in their poker rooms......

If you mean something like “Kem Casino”, then no, you can’t buy those new. There are much better cards out there anyway. Dal Negro, Modiano, Fournier, Copag, Carta Mundi, just to name a few.

[JM]

Here ya go...

http://www.kemplasticcards.com/bridge_regular.htm

You want the ones on the right "green brown casino" and "select green brown". Those would be the same type as you have in the casino and they are a bit thicker. But as jambine mentioned, there's a lot of even nicer cards out there for less money. Fournier and Carta Mundi are fantastic and very reasonably priced. www.tridentcards.com carries a number of these as well as the others mentioned.

[bigdog81]

I buy all my decks here:

http://www.chessset.com/index.html

[ahopen78]

Originally Posted by bigdog81

I buy all my decks here:

http://www.chessset.com/index.html

I still have KEM Arrows that I bought there IN PERSON in 1999 that I still use every week.