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Message: [QUOTE="Rational Madman, post: 3783345, member: 227817"] Do not buy any set of cards that are 'normal' or 'magic trick' cards. Normal cards are stiff (difficult to bend-shuffle and not destroy) as well as unwaxed (so sliding the cards to players across the felt won't work properly unless you are very, very good at aiming). Magic trick cards are the complete opposite of poker cards; they are built with specifically grippable cardboard on the back to enable easy grip with slight touch of fingers for sleigh of hand tricks (and actually these are the decks used for cheat-shuffling in poker) but real proper poker decks have very slippery wax-covered PLASTIC cards (they are plastic layered on either side and card on the inside of the transparent protective layers). The waxing is to make bend-shuffling etc not creases or damage them at all as well as enable easy gliding across felt. [/QUOTE]