Card size - Poker or Bridge? |
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Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:25 am GMT by Idaho
I know most play with Bridge size.. is that the afficianado's choice? Do only old timers play with the Poker size?
Just about to buy a couple of packs of Copags and can't decide.
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Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:40 am GMT by Pinnacle
Definitely Bridge.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:35 am GMT by yaw
for a home game or home tourney i can't stand bridge size. we always use poker width cards. however, if i'm not shuffling or dealing, i don't really care what size cards i'm using.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:08 am GMT by Idaho
Should have made it a poll. 1 - 1 so far.
Come on people - i want to buy them today  - give me at least 10 replies to choose from.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:15 am GMT by MeridianFC
I honestly don't think it matters. I have both, use both. If you put a gun to my head I guess I'd go with bridge. If you don't have a gun to my head I get which ever is cheaper/available/attractive at the moment.
I ain't goin' back to paper though.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:19 am GMT by galderon
I have both. I use poker size for hold'em and I use the bridge size for games like hearts where you're holding a lot of cards.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:29 am GMT by yaw
i'll weigh in again. i assume you're ordering KEMS or COPAGS.. I used my bridge sized KEMS for about a week before I gave them away and bought poker width. They were small, skinny and flimsy, very dissapointed. I realize that I play with bridge sized KEMS at my local casino, but as mentioned before, I don't have to shuffle or handle the cards, just take a peak at the corner.
Buy poker width for your home game.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:43 am GMT by ChkDeezNuts
Bridge size annoys me.....
They feel like your'e playing with Business cards.
POKER size dude.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:47 am GMT by Idaho
So that's 3-1 in favour of poker with two wusses sitting on the fence 
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:54 am GMT by galderon
| Idaho wrote: | | So that's 3-1 in favour of poker with two wusses sitting on the fence |
Uhhh...I better make a choice quick or someone will think I'm a wuss!
As I said in my previous post...if you're going to play a lot of other games with tons of cards in your hand, go bridge width. If hold'em is your game...poker width.
If having both makes me a wuss...so be it! 
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:59 am GMT by PanthersHUTCH15
I have bridge size KEM's and Copags, and I really dislike the poker size. For me, when I am dealing or shuffling, I want to have bridge size because they are easire to shuffle IMO. I will always order bridge, but you will never know till you try both because it is a preference sort of thing.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:22 pm GMT by Fins
| galderon wrote: | | I have both. I use poker size for hold'em and I use the bridge size for games like hearts where you're holding a lot of cards. |
Ditto
- Fins
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:49 pm GMT by pocket snowmen
i recently bought a deck of kems, thinking they were poker size, but quickly realized they were bridge, and really dont mind it at all... you get used to it after playing awhile. but as said above, im def not going back to paper...
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:50 pm GMT by tomb1
Short version: Bridge
Long version:
As a long-time blackjack player, I was always used to "Poker" size cards in casinos. But playing bridge with my parents many years ago (yeah I know, that's lame but they made all us kids learn) we always used bridge cards because you have a bunch in your hand.
Once I started playing poker at B&M casinos, I saw that they always used "bridge" size cards for poker. Go figure. So when I bought some Kem decks I got the smaller size, and I really love 'em.
It's not a big deal either way, and I guess it's just personal preference. For HE with only 2 hole cards, it just doesn't matter. But bridge works best for us, especially if the table is small.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:54 pm GMT by redd38
Bridge, definately bridge.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:57 pm GMT by warewulf619
Bridge
It's what they use in ALL the casinos I've ever been to, that's enough for me. Wide size doesn't feel right to me.
Starting poll.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:02 pm GMT by slowplayray
I have both, use both. Slight preference to the bridge size because that's what I am used to at the casino. It really doesn't matter much though, as long as they're not JUMBO index.
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:39 pm GMT by gmunny
I think either size is fine. Keep in mind that most card clubs/casinos use bridge size in their poker rooms. My suggestion is if you are going with Super Index cards, I think they look better on the Poker Size cards. If you are going with Regular Index, go with the bridge size. For my home game I use Poker Size Kems, with the Super Index. As you get older, the bigger fonts make it easier on the eyes.
G$
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:21 pm GMT by warewulf619
| gmunny wrote: |
As you get older, the bigger fonts make it easier on the eyes.
G$ |
Have you seen MAGNUM index? Checkout this thread on another forum: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=1399406&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
Posted Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:04 pm GMT by Prettey Toney
They ought to call bridge size "poker size" and poker size "wide size"
I think this would eliminate the confusion.
two hours with a bridge deck and you would never know the difference.
I have both and play with both. The wide kems do seem a little heftier, but the bridge size club card puts me right back in the Bellagio Poker Room (at heart)
Posted Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:33 pm GMT by Bleakill
in my opinion, poker sized (wide) are better, coz of bigger size, they'd have a larger weight, so they'll slide across the table more easily. Also, it's just that heavy solid feel of them in your hands. Maybe it's just that my hands are of bigger kind so it's easier for me to shuffle and deal. Well, looks like i'm in the minority here, but who got the big hands there, eh, wussies ya and who da hell cares about what casinos use...their dealers are prolly all wusses with small hands ))))))
Posted Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:45 am GMT by PaulsonChips
Bridge for sure.
All the casino touneys I have been in used Bridge, NO EXCEPTIONS.
Posted Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:04 pm GMT by redd38
Those cards are sweet! Those shall be the next set i get methinks. They have the small index in the corner for when you're looking at your hole cards, but the huge index in the middle for when you're sitting at the end of an oval table and the other end is the dealer.
Posted Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:55 pm GMT by gmunny
Talk about livin' large! If I ever played without my contacts/glasses, I guess I would need those.
Posted Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:58 pm GMT by Grumbler
I have used Poker sized cards since I was in College back in the '60s. To use anything else feels "funny". I use bridge size cards when I play Bridge, Hearts, Gin Rummy etc.
It really doesn't matter to me what the casino uses and I play there on occasion.
My $.02.
Posted Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:55 pm GMT by PocketRocket
<sarcasm on> I really don't care either. But since cardrooms and casinos use bridge size, it is important that we all follow blindly like sheep and lemmings and use bridge size. Just as casinos and cardrooms may use Paul-Son chips, we should use nothing but GPI-Paulson chips which aren't available on the retail market, and as such should become prey to eBay opportunists and pay outrageous sums for such chips and line their pockets. </sarcasm off>
If everything in a home game has to emulate that of a cardroom/casino environment, then I may as well go to a casino or cardroom. The only thing in one of my home games that is the same as that of a Vegas casino is that the cocktails are free 
Could it be ...
1. KEM cards are standard in cardrooms and casino poker rooms because of their durability, and they have been using bridge sized KEMs because KEM was not producing poker sized decks in recent years?
2. Casinos/cardrooms use bridge sized decks to accommodate the smaller hands of female dealers?
Posted Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:04 pm GMT by warewulf619
While we're getting sarcastic, I think they use bridge size cards to encourage people to palm cards in and out of the game. Cheaters tried using the wide size and complained that they were too difficult to conceal.
Posted Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:12 pm GMT by PocketRocket
That's right, the smaller folks were having problems fitting the wider cards up their sleeves.
| warewulf619 wrote: | While we're getting sarcastic, I think they use bridge size cards to encourage people to palm cards in and out of the game. Cheaters tried using the wide size and complained that they were too difficult to conceal.
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Posted Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:55 pm GMT by Bleakill
| PocketRocket wrote: |
2. Casinos/cardrooms use bridge sized decks to accommodate the smaller hands of female dealers? |
exactly.
Posted Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:04 am GMT by PaulsonChips
The reason I say to follow the Casinos and poker rooms is generally that have experience on what works best.
Posted Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:36 pm GMT by TGuns
I agree with GMunny:
Poker (wide) size is better with Super Index.
Bridge size is better with Regular Index.
I've got both, kinda switch back and forth a bit, no one I play with seems to mind either way... Although it would be funny to see the looks on their faces when I break out the MAGNUM deck, ha ha.
Posted Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:54 pm GMT by PocketRocket
Yeah, but I suspect my friends and guests are going to be a bit turned off when I put those camera pods into the ceiling and at the front door. And they're really going to start wondering about the UV lamp near the chip racks And I don't really know if I'll be able the hire the folks for the Surveillance room :D ... guess I'll have to just start raking the pots ... (someone get this damn tounge out of my cheek!)
| PaulsonChips wrote: | | The reason I say to follow the Casinos and poker rooms is generally that have experience on what works best. |
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