I hosted my monthly Poker Club game last night. In a previous blog entry I wrote about all the decks of cards I have and showed a picture of the box of cards. For the game last night I pulled out 2 decks of cards to use, just opened them to make sure they were 'very' new looking. Now, a lot of those cards I got from Chuck Tate when he worked at the Casino. These cards are used by the casino for a few hands, then taken out of play, packaged, they drill a hole through them, and sell or give them away. They're good cards, only used for a very short time, and, basically new. We've used these casino cards a lot during our years of playing together. Well, last night before dealing the first hand and shuffling the cards, I happened to turn them over and fanned through the deck. I'm glad I did.
I happened to notice 2 Kings of Diamonds. So, we set the deck aside and used the other deck, which I 'really' checked. It was OK. Only after the game and everyone had gone I checked the deck further to see if there were any other abnormalities. Wow! This deck was really screwed up. I wonder now if I'd have just dealt the hand how long it would have been before we noticed a problem. With the number of duplicates, I don't think it would have been long.
One other time in our history of playing did we have a 'bad' deck. We were well into the game before we found 2 cards of the same suit. And this was from a brand new deck of cards we'd broken the seal on before play. So, always check a deck of cards before the game begins....you never know what kind of mistakes may have been made or what problems it might cause when you get into the middle of a hand and there happens to be 5 aces in the deck!
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And when you play Old Maid with Erin and Jill, make sure all the cards have been taken out of the box, or some won't have matches.
If you had walked into a saloon with a deck like that, you'd have been shot real quick.
I wonder if the extra cards were for your sleeve.
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