Hygrade Pan Set

Another random card from my stash.

Name: Hygrade Pan Set
Date: 6.6.2009

Cost: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
A Pan set picked up for about 6$ off of Ebay. Doubt you’d be able to find another one of these ever.

Hygrade : 4 Aces
Hygrade : 4 Aces

Availability: ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
One Star availability…haha. Pan sets aren’t usually easy to come by because…they’re not typical decks of playing cards. You get J,Q,K,A and like 2- through 6 to make 40 card packs. 8 Sets per box means, this set has… uhh. 640 cards?

Hygrade : Fanning Powder Spread
Hygrade : Fanning Powder Spread

Life/Finish: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Kinda hard to classify. When I picked it up, like all old casino cards, even if they’re new, if they’re opened they clump. Horribly. So I recently picked up fanning powder. And revived them… and now…they’re good for eye candy, but little else. A little of the soft side. Who knows what ‘finish’ they have. The dimples give an air cushion effect, but its like…missing the springyness of a bicycle card, but it still has some snap on the edges. None of this really matters though , .. Unless you come across another set.

Hygrade : Fanning Powder Faro Spread
Hygrade : Fanning Powder Faro Spread

Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○
Quite easy. Has more ‘plastic’ flow than a bicycle deck, which leans towards the ‘paper’ side.

Hygrade : Revived from the dead.
Hygrade : Revived from the dead.

Back Design: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○
Available in Red and Blue. I personally like it because it mimics the aristocrat deck that I don’t have yet. : X yay for fake aristocrats. Fake? Well, its good enough for me. Plus I have a whole stash worth, so I can use them for practice.

Hygrade : Modified Aristocrat?
Hygrade : Modified Aristocrat?

Hot Shot Cut: ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Not enough snap left to make it worthwhile. Still works, but barely.

Comments

Hygrade : Another Card
Hygrade : Another Card

-Really Random. Probably what is labeled a ‘one-shot’ back design. Who knows that that little insignia thing in the middle is. I don’t. But having a ‘practice’ card is always worthwhile. What else…The red on the faces isn’t like that bright bicycle red, its more typical to the dark ‘casino’ red. Pan set means 40 cards, so no 8, 9, or 10 spots for you : ( Well. All in all. I’d use these. At least more than some of the other decks I have.

–Kudos ♪♫

Bee RJRTC

Welcome back?

Name: RJRTC 2007 Bee
Date: 6.5.2009

Cost: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Hit or miss here. I picked up a brick at 3$ a pack and then some last year in May 2008. The price on Ebay kinda jumps up and down a lot depending on how much you buy, and how fast you kill decks. Lucky me.

RJRTC : Another white bordered Bee.
RJRTC : Another white bordered Bee.

Availability: ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
If these were readily available like bicycles, me and probably a bunch of other people would truly be happy. Reality says they’re not. Promotional items for camel cigarettes in 2007 , you might be lucky to find them in liquor store rather than eBay. eBay…..darn. huge SIGH. At least I don’t use them everyday.

RJRTC : Joker, AoS, and....poker rules...again...
RJRTC : Joker, AoS, and....poker rules...again...

Life/Finish: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○

RJRTC : Spread
RJRTC : Spread
RJRTC : Face Spread
RJRTC : Face Spread
RJRTC : Faro and Spread
RJRTC : Faro and Spread

Can you say AWESOME? As white bordered bees are rare enough to come by in the first places, these are additionally super. A pack I opened last year last around 6months. And it still fans today. And such. This bee is strong. And surprising durable.

Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○

RJRTC : Cut and Faro
RJRTC : Cut and Faro

Very easy. Maybe I’m just overall biased towards being favorable. But there’s nothing wrong here. Cards seem to be cut well on all sides.

Back Design: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○

RJRTC : Red and Blue
RJRTC : Red and Blue

Available in Red and Blue. They’ve been referred to as ….watermelons? Because the yellow whatever look like seeds..? I don’t know…they look like some butterfly like pattern to me. But still quite … whats the word…refreshing? Like,, a back that’s white bordered, isn’t just one color, or shades of black and white. Well, its just red/ blue + black + yellow. But still made of so much awesome. Also correctly looks good in fans and spreads.

Giant Fan: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○
Assuming you can pull off consistently good giant fans(not it)

RJRTC : Giant Fan
RJRTC : Giant Fan

Please use this deck. Its pretty.

Comments

RJRTC : MADE OF AWESOME > . <
RJRTC : MADE OF AWESOME > . <

-This deck might be what is referred to as ‘exclusive’ Unless you’re a heavy smoker of camel branded cigarettes in 2007, you’ll have to find other ways to acquire this deck. Might I suggest Ebay. Over the last year of tracking this deck , they’ve sold anywhere between 2 $ to 15 $ a deck. I sold some of mine off at that upper limit….yea…just the blues ones. Since I don’t like blue decks. I mean…I like red more…but tahts besides the point. Which is. They pop up on eBay a lot. So. it’s a BEE branded deck. With white borders. That alone is awesome + points right there. The box design is also quite subtle. Only words are on the bottom of the box. I wish all my other decks had boxes like these…

–Kudos ♪♫