Joker 80T playing cards - Texas Holdem series (KS)

[Fess]

Joker 80T playing cards - Texas Holdem series
by Russell Common

[Don Boyer]

I noticed they're marked "Underage Sale Prohibited".  You think kids might try to smoke them or something?

For the sale of playing cards, "underage" equals "I'm not old enough to stop putting the cards in my mouth..."

[Fess]

I noticed they're marked "Underage Sale Prohibited".  You think kids might try to smoke them or something?

For the sale of playing cards, "underage" equals "I'm not old enough to stop putting the cards in my mouth..."

Being a Hold em deck I think that may have to do with the poker aspect of it. The tuck design also shares similar design cues from packs of smokes. Combining the two may be saying something like, Don't gamble unless you're of age. Just taking a guess there.

I'm backing these of course. I wouldn't not support a club member and I need to get my mitts on those jokers. Seriously, I like the pips layout on the number cards. While I'm not a huge fan of this style indices, I think it works here given the pips layout. It's fun and should look great on the table.

I would love to see these fund. If for no other reason than to see if it's the cards that a blurry or if someone needed to pick up a $10 tripod haha. The blurry photos would usually be a red flag, not in this case. He's a 52+j member these will happen if funded.

[Rob Wright]

Russell gave me one of the prototype decks at the 52+ convention last year. That was pretty cool. He's been given a lot of flack about the idea for this deck, but he's held to his guns. Got to commend that never say die attitude. Good luck Russell.

[Don Boyer]

I would love to see these fund. If for no other reason than to see if it's the cards that a blurry or if someone needed to pick up a $10 tripod haha. The blurry photos would usually be a red flag, not in this case. He's a 52+j member these will happen if funded.

I'm betting the blur is the cameraperson and not the printing!

I'm waiting on a prototype deck of this in the mail - can't wait to see them.  I'm glad that he finally figured out a way to make his dream and to do it pretty much his way.

I don't know that I'd use them for anything other than solitaire, though - even that might be too much of a feat considering the extra values in the deck.  This deck simply wouldn't hold up to the "neighborhood poker" test.

Simply put, it changes the odds of certain hands significantly, thus forcing some serious mathematical analysis to determine true odds and perhaps even adjusted rank order.  Most hands become easier to attain, I'd imagine, such as flushes and even straights, but now, with so many ranks, it's not impossible to imagine that straights are now more difficult than flushes, making them ranked higher.  To your typical home-grown poker player, it's the equivalent of jamming some fireworks in his ears, lighting the fuse and strolling away to hide behind a boulder...

[sprouts1115]

@Don - Just wondering if you got the cards?  By the way, you can't play solitaire with these cards.   I have tried. It does not work. These are for games that require a group of players  like Texas Hold'em, Rummy, Jin, ect.   I tried to stay as close as possible to the 808 font in the indices.  It was the theme for that deck.  In the next deck, you can play solitaire.  It will be the traditional red and black indices, but with a twist.  The suits will be bubbled.  I know we talked about that.      Lets just say I know I can fit 2 or 3 more cards in a person's hand using this current theme of the suit indicator being both the rank and suit of the card at the same time.

Here is some card porn with a pretty nice fan of the back done by a friend. 

I have 2 (Ace Level:) pledge slots open since Sunday at 10pm CST.  Would like to see these disappear. 

[ecNate]

I have 2 (Ace Level:) pledge slots open since Sunday at 10pm CST.  Would like to see these disappear.

Thanks for the notice, I picked one up, mostly for the Bishops and Jokers, but it could be interesting to play or create new games with the additional cards.

I'm disappointed with your new tuck, the smoke pack homage doesn't work for me at all (almost a turn off and with tobacco on a major decline I wonder if others are staying away because of it).  I'm not offended or anything silly, but it just has zero appeal to me as a result of the Marlboro style.  Than again, it can just be a playable instead of a collectible deck to display I suppose.  I'm also really confused on how you are limiting the potential with all the restricted tiers, but I did hear you say you may expand later.

Good luck!

[Don Boyer]

@Don - Just wondering if you got the cards?  By the way, you can't play solitaire with these cards.   I have tried. It does not work. These are for games that require a group of players  like Texas Hold'em, Rummy, Jin, ect.   I tried to stay as close as possible to the 808 font in the indices.  It was the theme for that deck.  In the next deck, you can play solitaire.  It will be the traditional red and black indices, but with a twist.  The suits will be bubbled.  I know we talked about that.      Lets just say I know I can fit 2 or 3 more cards in a person's hand using this current theme of the suit indicator being both the rank and suit of the card at the same time.

Here is some card porn with a pretty nice fan of the back done by a friend. 

I have 2 (Ace Level:) pledge slots open since Sunday at 10pm CST.  Would like to see these disappear.

I have received them and have been testing them extensively.  You can actually play solitaire.  You're used to playing Klondike, in all likelihood - your deck doesn't work there without some rejiggering of the game.  But it's extremely well suited for Canfield, also known as Demon in the UK.  You make the draw pile 15 cards instead of thirteen and the rest works out fine.  The big problem is that the odds against winning rise dramatically against the player because of the additional cards.  Canfield is hard enough in the first place!

I've also been thinking about poker hands - your extra cards would have a significant impact on the odds of drawing a particular hand, to the point that you'd probably have to switch around the rank order of some hands.  I'm no mathematician, but I think that because of the longer suits, straights become easier as do flushes, but combinations of the same rank become more difficult.  You'd need a real mathematician to figure out the actual odds.  Plus you've raised the number of possible deck orders following a random shuffle by more than 1.719 x 10¹² times.  And that doesn't even factor in using the jokers for anything!

Have you considered contacting Bent Castle Games?  They might be interested in producing your deck.  Most of their decks already have an extra value, X, in each of the four suits.