January 2007 Archives

I love playing poker with my friends. It's always a good time, and always a friendly game. There's a big game coming up, but I'm tired of relying on one particular friend to bring the chips and cards. So, with some X-Mass cash in pocket, I decided to buy my own set of quality playing cards and chips.

They should be here early next week, and in anticipation, I also went shopping for some quality cards. After reading some reviews online, I chose the Dal Negro Freedom, a plastic card that is known for its "paper card feel". Plastic cards are either love-em or hate-em, but in my house, they win because off durability. And lets face it, cards aren't expensive products, so even expensive cards are still, in the grand scheme of things, inexpensive. The review I read went something like this:

"The Dal Negro's have more of a 'paper' feel to them than the other plastic cards I have reviewed. The texture feels similar to COPAG cards but have much more of a 'sandpaper' feel. The cards feel less 'plasticy' than the other decks and anyone who handles them up immediately notices the difference in feel. When you look closely at the paper, it looks like particle-board.

Dal Negro's have a unique feel for a plastic card. The cards have more of a fuller, chiseled feel to them than other plastic playing cards. The corners are more rounded than a KEM. They feel like little pieces of cardboard and are the thickest and heaviest cards I reviewed."

OK, it went exactly like that. That is a direct cut-and-paste from a review at HomePokerTourney.com.