CdnBeerLover
Full House
If you look around, you may have noticed that Bicycle now has two-deck setups of the Prestige available in green/burgundy back colours in poker standard, poker jumbo, bridge standard, and bridge jumbo sizes.
I was curious to know more about these cards...I didn't have a Bicycle poker sized jumbo card. Despite my best efforts to not expand my collection, I broke down and bought a set of the poker sized jumbo cards through Amazon.ca. I was on there buying Xmas gifts, and they just happened to find their way into my cart (At $12.95 + 3.95 shipping, I could not resist. I have no willpower...).
I'll post some pics by the weekend, but here are my first impressions:
The great
They feel really nice. Very similar, if not exactly the same as the "Spanish" Prestige. Same thickness and "snap".
The good
The case is quite nice. The lid snaps on and off, and stays put. It is a hard glossy plastic, similar in feel to the Modiano Platinum Acetate case. I like the fact that I don't need an elastic band to keep the lid on.
The design on the back of the cards is nice. The face of the cards is pretty standard.
Pips are the same font as my Fournier EPT Gold, but the symbols on the corners (spade, heart, etc) are larger than the Fourniers, so the overall pip size is larger. They are also substantially larger than the pips on my Modiano Platinum Acetate jumbos.
So, there are no issues seeing these cards from the other end of the table, but they may be too large at a 9 or 10-player oval when peeking at your hole cards.
The faces have white centers (not yellow), and the pips in the center are surrounded by a blue border. The pip colours are the standard colours used by Bicycle...I do not believe they are the "security" red used in some other brands.
The ugly
The colours are a problem, at least to me. The green and burgundy are fairly close in shade...while I can pick them apart, it's not immediately apparent. I have to stare at them for a second or two for the difference to become noticeable for me. If I drop them on the floor and they get mixed up, the room had better have good lighting if I'm going to have any hope of sorting them out properly.
For comparison, if anyone has the Jumbo poker sized cards from Four52, the colours are very close to those.
Verdict:
I'll have to put them into play to know for sure, but they are very nice cards for the money. The pip size is a little large for my liking, but I can live with that. I really think USPCC dropped the ball on the back colours, though. If they had used the standard blue / red that they use on the "normal" Prestiges, I wouldn't hesitate to use these in a game with two decks in rotation (one in play, one being shuffled for the next hand).
As it is, they are not my first choice. The green/burgundy combination is not the best choice for players that have red/green colour issues.
Just my $0.02,
Dave
I was curious to know more about these cards...I didn't have a Bicycle poker sized jumbo card. Despite my best efforts to not expand my collection, I broke down and bought a set of the poker sized jumbo cards through Amazon.ca. I was on there buying Xmas gifts, and they just happened to find their way into my cart (At $12.95 + 3.95 shipping, I could not resist. I have no willpower...).
I'll post some pics by the weekend, but here are my first impressions:
The great
They feel really nice. Very similar, if not exactly the same as the "Spanish" Prestige. Same thickness and "snap".
The good
The case is quite nice. The lid snaps on and off, and stays put. It is a hard glossy plastic, similar in feel to the Modiano Platinum Acetate case. I like the fact that I don't need an elastic band to keep the lid on.
The design on the back of the cards is nice. The face of the cards is pretty standard.
Pips are the same font as my Fournier EPT Gold, but the symbols on the corners (spade, heart, etc) are larger than the Fourniers, so the overall pip size is larger. They are also substantially larger than the pips on my Modiano Platinum Acetate jumbos.
So, there are no issues seeing these cards from the other end of the table, but they may be too large at a 9 or 10-player oval when peeking at your hole cards.
The faces have white centers (not yellow), and the pips in the center are surrounded by a blue border. The pip colours are the standard colours used by Bicycle...I do not believe they are the "security" red used in some other brands.
The ugly
The colours are a problem, at least to me. The green and burgundy are fairly close in shade...while I can pick them apart, it's not immediately apparent. I have to stare at them for a second or two for the difference to become noticeable for me. If I drop them on the floor and they get mixed up, the room had better have good lighting if I'm going to have any hope of sorting them out properly.
For comparison, if anyone has the Jumbo poker sized cards from Four52, the colours are very close to those.
Verdict:
I'll have to put them into play to know for sure, but they are very nice cards for the money. The pip size is a little large for my liking, but I can live with that. I really think USPCC dropped the ball on the back colours, though. If they had used the standard blue / red that they use on the "normal" Prestiges, I wouldn't hesitate to use these in a game with two decks in rotation (one in play, one being shuffled for the next hand).
As it is, they are not my first choice. The green/burgundy combination is not the best choice for players that have red/green colour issues.
Just my $0.02,
Dave
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the pip extends far down the card and the A is larger than the other As and the other numbers and letters. That's the first time I realized that and I've been playing with this decks for quite a while, LOL!! I had never seen that in any other cards before, had you guys? All the other cards are normal.
to show a different red, sizing and positioning.
They're all Dal Negro print runs.
