How I learned to stop worrying and love plastic playing cards!
I can remember the first day I used a deck of plastic playing
cards at our weekly Thursday night poker game. I've heard that
many people have loved plastic playing cards right off the bat
and never looked back. Well let me tell you, I was not one of
those people.
I picked up that deck and all I could think was, "Why are the
cards so small? Why do they feel so weird? They're so damned
slippery, how am I ever supposed to get used to these?" I was
relieved when the next week the game location had moved and we
were back to our regular good old playing cards.
But little did I know the invasion had begun, and once it had
started there was no stopping it. Soon we were using plastic
playing cards every week. And slowly, without my knowing it,
something strange began to happen. I got used to these new
cards.
Maybe it was originally some sort of innate fear of change in
all of us, who knows, but I began to appreciate plastic playing
cards for what they were: far superior poker playing cards. The
material makes it easy to shuffle and easier to deal. For those
of us that bend our cards a bit much when we peek at our hole
cards, plastic playing cards are our savior. And without ever
having to worry about a card getting marked, or creased, or even
warped when the eventual drink spillage occurs, it really makes
for a much more enjoyable play. I was a believer.
Then came the fateful day when my new found devotion was put to
the test. We had no plastic playing cards that day and had to go
back to a regular deck. The cards felt all wrong, too heavy.
They were stiff as a board and impossible to shuffle. They
didn't slide smoothly off the deck when I tried to deal. And we
had to change decks at least two times throughout the night.
Never again I tell you, it was horrible. It's like going back to
8-tracks once you've heard CDs. Or going back to VHS after
watching a DVD. Why would anyone willingly put themselves
through that kind of torture? So if you're still not using plas
tic playing cards, give them a try. You'll thank me in the
end.