Poker cards

To play poker you need a deck of 52 cartes.Whenyou buy and you open it, you realize it does not contain 52 cards, but most often 55. The cards are more wild cards and one or two cards advertising.
Take wild cards and advertising for only the 52 cards you'll use.
Small tip if you do not have card poker you can play with tarot cards simply remove the twenty-one assets, the excuse and the horsemen.
Many components of cards can vary:

Cartoon

There are two main drawing: the English portrait and the French portrait :

portrait	French	English
Jack	V	J
Queen	D	Q
King	R	K
As	1	A

Format

There are three main formats

Design Training	Format
French portrait	55x84 mm
English bridge portrait	58x88 mm
English poker portrait	6x88 mm

Curiously the biggest clubs and casinos poker world have adopted the format bridge. The format poker is more use by magicians for their manipulation of the size index

Indexes

The indexes are the indications contained in the corners of the cards. When they are two times larger than usual, it is "jumbo index and identification cards is easier, especially for players whose vision decline.

The number of indexes

Some cards on quatre index (eg the card bridge above) while others have two.

The four index cards can be seen in range in both directions, so both by left-handers as of right. This is not the case of two index cards, more prevalent in the Anglo-Saxon countries, which are readable in the sense of right.

The card has four index problem in a 7-card stud. A player who is to the other end of the table to see, instead of a pair staggered three of a kind. Or instead of a card is lost among other, a pair. The two index cards do not have this problem with reading.

Casino card

Maps of American casinos are different. As the "logs" (ten, jack, queen, king) are used primarily as blackjack and this game gives the logs a role to hand, the index of other cards descended from a few millimeters. It also allows readers blackjack "(optical viewfinders seats flush with the table) to determine without error if the card is a log or not. Un peux These maps are not necessarily used to the poker table in casinos, or conventional plastic cards often prevalent.

Matter

There are cardboard cards PLASTICIZED and other 100% plastic. The best cardboard cards are made with three layers of fiber in opposite directions the central layer is black, for better opacity of the map.

The plastic cards are highly durable, including WATER. But they bear evil to be left long in the sun, which cracks and distorts. Preserve the anonymity of cards

Whatever the material, maps deteriorate anyway. Poker cards anonymity is paramount. Have only one card is marked, distorted or damaged so much so that one can recognize by looking back, we must change the game