A curious question about cards

[bigbeardedbryan]

I've never played in a cardroom outside the Seneca rooms in NY and Niagara Falls, so please pardon my innocence.

Being visually impaired, I usually try to sit in the 5 or 6 seats when they're available for reasons that should be obvious. If I'm in 1 or 10, I can see half the board but inevitably wind up asking about the cards on the end opposite me.

The cardrooms I frequent switched over recently from Kems to Copags (both regular index, which did not help my cause). While I could squint at the Kems and read them from a fairly normal seated position, I find the Copags to be a lot more difficult to read, perhaps due to their thicker typeface. I've asked the hosts at these rooms if it's possible to use setups of jumbo index cards that I could see, but they claim they don't have any and wouldn't put them into play for me even if they did.

This surprises me, because I would expect that if they ever spread stud games (they usually don't), they would use a jumbo-index deck. Further, I'd expect jumbo-index cards to be preferred from a security standpoint--surely the cameras could read these easier. This brings me to my question: What style of cards do they use in other rooms? I am specifically curious as to brand and, more importantly, index; I assume most rooms use plastic cards for the cost savings. Am I the only going-blind player who wonders about this sort of thing? I'd like to expand my horizons and play some poker elsewhere, but obviously I won't be keen on traveling to play where I won't be able to read the cards.