A curious question about cards

[csuf_gambl0r]

Viejas in san diego switched to the large cartoon cards last year. it sucks.

i have to totally change the way i look at my cards because the fonts are so big. i have to use both hands and be very careful that someone can't see them.

[HossTheBoss]

Large face cards suck, I have played with them at Fort McDowell Casino in AZ and also at morongo in southern cali. It is ridiculously hard to squeeze your cards, especially in omaha....

[bav]

Last visit there a few months ago Harrahs in Topeka used the jumbos. Few visually unimpaired players like 'em, but it does seem to help the guys who used to have to stand up and lean over the table to see the board. Which tends to speed things up a little, so there's a good side to using 'em.

I played a couple times with a legally blind person. He was ultra near-sighted. To see his own cards, he'd hold them up about 1" from his eye. The board was just a blur to him, so the dealers had to read out each card. I have enough trouble remembering my own two hole cards, but amazingly he never asked for a repeat of any board card. He'd get help from a neighbor to stack his chips because he couldn't easily distinguish colors on them without bringing each one up to his eye, but he just kept the reds on one side and the whites on the other and it all worked fine.

To make it all run smoothly only required a cooperative dealer who clearly and without prompting read out the board cards each time, called out the bets as they happened, and prompted the sight-impaired fellow when it was his turn. If we had that, the game was never delayed a bit. Which somehow only about half the dealers could ever do well. I never got frustrated at the player, just the moronic dealers who somehow couldn't manage to do this.

[csuf_gambl0r]

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Large face cards suck, I have played with them at Fort McDowell Casino in AZ and also at morongo in southern cali. It is ridiculously hard to squeeze your cards, especially in omaha....

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morongo doesnt use the large cards

[bigbeardedbryan]

Thanks for the interesting comments, everybody.

Can anyone confirm that Turning Stone still uses the jumbo-index cards? I could probably manage a trip there.