Paper Texture But Made of Plastic? (1 Viewer)

[Jerome100]

Been playing a little Klondike lately on my granite tabletop. Just when I have a few minutes to sit down.

Noticing that plastic cards have a tendency to slide on the granite. Faded Spade, KEM, and Desjgn. They’re kinda all over the place.

Pulled out an ancient deck of cheap paper cards. These were terrible to shuffle and badly bowed. Awful. With that said they were the perfect texture. Didn’t slide much. Top cards were easy to grab.

Is there an acetate or pvc card that has the paper texture? I’ve tried bicycle prestige but those were always flying all over the place.

Maybe it’s the crummy bowing that keeps them from sliding around… but curious if there might be a card like this out there.

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

Closest I can think of are the angels on here, poker-sized. Great texture, so smooth.

 

[raynmanas]

no - plastic and paper really aren’t substitutes. they’re built for different jobs, and in my experience there is litte-to-no overlap. plastic are perfect when you need to peel your cards and you’ve got the right surface (i.e. a poker table or mat) for it. otherwise, paper is king.

one of my buddies brought a modiano deck to a pitch tournament as a gift to the hosts, so they put it out on one of the tables (typical plastic surface card table), and every single person complained about them - they're great cards, but just wrong for that job.

 

[AlbinoDragon]

Part of the problem is your playing surface. Granite (cultured marble, even Formica, any very smooth surface without some "give") will always be like playing and pitching cards on an air-hockey table.

On that surface, honestly, OG paper Bicycle cards might deal and pitch better than any plastic card you use.


Plastic cards seem to trap a little air under them, to the effect that some of the top cards of the stub (the un-dealt deck of cards to clarify the lingo used here) tend to slide off the top. Put those on a table that's smooth as a mirror, and you'll find the same behavior from the cards.

A simple table topper will help this a lot, though many toppers are "slick" in a similar but beneficial way that allow a card to be pitched from one end of the table to the other without attaining flight along the way.


It just sounds like you are playing on an unforgiving surface and a change of 'where' you play will improve your game a lot.

 

[Phyffe]

no - plastic and paper really aren’t substitutes. they’re built for different jobs, and in my experience there is litte-to-no overlap. plastic are perfect when you need to peel your cards and you’ve got the right surface (i.e. a poker table or mat) for it. otherwise, paper is king.

one of my buddies brought a modiano deck to a pitch tournament as a gift to the hosts, so they put it out on one of the tables (typical plastic surface card table), and every single person complained about them - they're great cards, but just wrong for that job.

what's a pitch tournament?

 

[raynmanas]

what's a pitch tournament?

pitch is a trick-taking game popular(ish) in new england. i have a friend who hosts an annual tournament every black friday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(card_game)

 

[Jerome100]

Part of the problem is your playing surface. Granite (cultured marble, even Formica, any very smooth surface without some "give") will always be like playing and pitching cards on an air-hockey table.

On that surface, honestly, OG paper Bicycle cards might deal and pitch better than any plastic card you use.


Plastic cards seem to trap a little air under them, to the effect that some of the top cards of the stub (the un-dealt deck of cards to clarify the lingo used here) tend to slide off the top. Put those on a table that's smooth as a mirror, and you'll find the same behavior from the cards.

A simple table topper will help this a lot, though many toppers are "slick" in a similar but beneficial way that allow a card to be pitched from one end of the table to the other without attaining flight along the way.


It just sounds like you are playing on an unforgiving surface and a change of 'where' you play will improve your game a lot.

Super helpful reply and I sorta suspected this. Maybe I’ll look for a little card mat I can keep handy when I just want to sit down for 30 minutes and play