Copags versus Bicycle

[Pokerfarian]

Hey all,

About 2 months ago, I called in a favor and had a friend who owns a small convienience store buy a case (144 decks) of Bicycles 808, which cost me $197--a huge savings for me and essentially years worth of cards.
I did this in part because of the deal, but in part because I didn't really "get" the notion of plastic cards. We just throw the deck out after each week-no cleaning, no worries.

Last week, I recieved 2 decks of Copags in the mail. I tossed the package another regular at my poker game,who opened the box and shuffled the cards 1 time.
HE LOVED THEM. I shuffled them, dealt them and felt them, and just could not believe how good they felt.
One of our regulars has broken hs fingers many, many times and has trouble shuffling--these were easy for him to shuffle and he loved the feel.
When I took them to our weekly game, everyone loved them.

Do yourself a favor-try these (or KEMS I assume)--you will not believe the difference.

If I had it to do over, I would have not bought the paper cards.

[CincinnastyKid]

I've got some copaq's and love them. The two decks for $20 you will get probably as much life as all the paper cards combined AND if one or two cards get funked you can get them replaced vs. the whole deck. Even if you had to buy 2 more sets of copaqs for what you paid for paper you'd still be saving a lot of money.

Maybe you can sell your paper cards on ebay as a bulk lot or something??

-Kid

[PocketRocket]

Kind of hurts to mention it, but you can get 12 packs of Bicycles from Costco for about $13.50 or about $162/gross. Always handy to have a box laying around even if you've gone to plastics.

[MasterShake]

And tell your friend if he's going to cheat to stop getting caught. I mean, how many times do you need to have your fingers broken before you learn.