cards like the ones on aruba classic
 

I watched the UB Aruba Classic last night and was wondering what kind of cards they were using. It's a bit hard to say exactly, but basically they had the rank and suit on the top edge so you don't have to look at the whole card. here's a picture.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/7117/cardwx4.png

what is this design called? and where can you get them (plastic)?

thanks.

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Those are called left handed cards or simply 4 pip cards. They tend to be popular in Europe. Carta Mundi, Copag, Del Negro, Fournier and Mondiano all offer versions of this type of card.

Re: cards like the ones on aruba classic
 

are you sure?
I thought 4 pip just meant
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4185/card1mt9.png

Re: cards like the ones on aruba classic
 

Maybe I miss understood you. What's the difference between your 2 drawings?

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It does. I think they're sometime called left-hand cards because lefties can peel up the "opposite" corners, as most people do with normal pip designations.

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Maybe I miss understood you. What's the difference between your 2 drawings?

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Small pips in the corners vs. larger pips. Both are 4-pip style card decks and both can be found, I believe.

Also, the size of the inner pips reminds me of Magnum-type cards, that Kardwell used to make when they still owned the KEM line. Magnums only had 2 pips (or, the decks that I own only have 2).

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Maybe you are talking about Magnum Index cards. Copag makes those. Anyway, here's a link with lots of info on cards:

http://www.homepokertourney.com/cards.htm

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Maybe you are talking about Magnum Index cards. Copag makes those. Anyway, here's a link with lots of info on cards:


http://www.homepokertourney.com/cards.htm

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Wow, I'm behind the times. Some of us had asked Copag about making Magnum-type cards a while back, I didn't know they had finaly done so.

I'm not sure I like their version, however- the corner pips are too big.

I noticed something else- are A-Plus cards going OoB? They always were ugly.

Re: cards like the ones on aruba classic
 

here is the best real picture I could find
they are very small and notice it reads horizontally, not vertically
like A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
compared to
A
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http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6326/card2ln4.png

Re: cards like the ones on aruba classic
 

Wow those are nice cards. I haven't seen those before.