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There are a lot of awesome products that end up on Kickstarter. The funding platform/payment system/social support vehicle has drained our bank accounts in the best way possible, but it's most effective for a few [...]

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If you choose to conceal your tells during a game of poker with a pair of neon plastic Wayfarers, these are probably the cards you should be playing with. This deck of Hipster Playing Cards showcase all the classic [...]

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Everyone needs at least one quality deck of playing cards. Once you start drinking things that don't come in Vortex bottles when you play poker you need to step up your card preferences too. The [...]

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At first glance, a deck of cards that costs more than two Manhattans in NYC sounds insane, especially when you consider your drunk friends will probably spill beer all over them the next time you [...]

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Game night is no joking matter. When your friends arrive ready to hand over their cash you don’t want to bust out just any box of cards. You want premium stock (these are also cambric [...]

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There was a time not all that long ago when men wore hats, women wore stockings in public, the appletini didn't exist and you could actually smoke inside. Finding a place like that now is [...]

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Normally we wouldn't shell out more than a couple of bucks on a deck of cards. Ours are usually the $2 packs that will quickly be ruined by spilled beer and nacho cheese stains on poker [...]

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There's something magical about a boat full of aces over eights. Something extraordinary about a hand full of sequentially numbered red or black cards. Whether your game is hold em or stud or draw, or [...]

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Your arsenal of card tricks may only include duping a drunken buddy into a game of 52-Card Pickup, but the second your deck of Fantastique Playing Cards arrives you'll automatically have something impressive to show [...]

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You might have missed out on your shot at this year's WSOP—in fact you may be far from that level losing tons of cash, your car and perhaps your wife (tough bet to explain to [...]

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Gambling isn't always about the money. Most of the time it's more about being able to escape from the daily grind. You know, kick back with a cocktail or three that may or may not [...]

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When it comes to artificial things it's all about two things - feel and appearance. If you're going to play with something that is fake, good tactile response and a lack of defects is the [...]

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You can stop covering your ears, this isn't the latest in the long list of Lady Gaga singles you abhore. Poker Face 2 is a pictorial collection of the real professionals: Chan, Negreanu, Ivey presented [...]

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There are a lot of ways you can take your friends money, but gambling is the only way you can do it and have them thank you for it. That said, who can keep track [...]

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When you think about it, most card games are really all about probability, you know—math. So it only makes sense to use a deck of cards that simplifies the suits and numbers into math [...]

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