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Ah. Its finally Friday. Not that I’m doing anything over summer anyways besides tutoring other students…Spent the day learning from Lennart Green effects. As usual. Forgive me, I took the pictures later in the day than I usually do.

Name: Streamline “Rite Aid”
Date: 6.18.2009

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Streamline is supposed to be a ’budget’ type deck of cards. This cost me somewhere between 2 and 3$ at a Rite Aid. This was before I figured out it was a Streamline deck. Screw it.

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These are quite available. But why in the world would you even want them.

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If you had a choice between these and smooth alladins, You choose alladins. Not these. it’s a plasticky card. Which means slippery. No fanning for you. Spreads are uneven. Your well practice magic sleights are now crap. Etc. etc…yea…Life on the other hand is ok. Its plastic so it has higher sweat/heat resistance. Which makes these good for card counting and throwing and such.

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Nothing you can’t work with. I’m just going to be unfavorable towards the shoddy control quality on the printing though.

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Streamline : Wow. Quality control please.

The really bad quality control on the printing. Makes this deck. One way. On the other hand, it’s a ‘solid’ one color design that comes in red and blue. it’s a flowery and flowery stemmy motif of some sort. Not my type of card. But whatever.

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Throwing? You’re throwing your cards around? Shame on you. I mean. .. ..I was doing that card spin to bounce juggling thing where it keeps on bouncing off the back of your hand thing. Whatever that’s called. The cards popped some of my blood vessels or something. Oh well. So. They’re good for hurting ppl if you’re accurate..? Plastic does give it weight I guess.

Comments

-Aren’t you glad I write these posts. Now you know what to avoid. Streamlines. We’ll keep it short. You have better options out there. They’re plasticky cards. Not the best in terms of consistency. Not at all. You won’t get better using these. You won’t enjoy using these either. You’ll like that they’re available and have a long plastic life. Streamlines. They’re generic stick your brand on it cards. In this case. Rite Aid. That one pharmacy drugstore supermarket chain store thing. Uh huh. Whatever. I wouldn’t use these. But I do. Because. They were lying around

–Kudos ♪♫

and we’re back. on a thursday. wonder when i’ll go on a spree with my card buying skills.

Name: Marlboro Texan
Date: 6.18.2009

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It’s a promotional item for Marlboro cigarettes I suppose. Not highly desired. Quite cheap on eBay at times, falling in the 4-6$ range for a set. Don’t smoke cigarettes. Smoking is bad for you.

Marlboro Texan : What an awesome deck carrying leatherlike casing.

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These were released quite sometime back. But now,,,sealed sets are still readily available on eBay. Funny how that works.

Marlboro Texan : Court cards are vintage.

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Nothing too exciting. No aircushion type dimple hole things here. You get thin cardboards with a ’vintage replica’ yellowing printing stain thing. The overall feeling of the deck is slippy. But not the typical accustomed typical new fresh of the box slippy. Probably last longer than a deck of bicycles though. I’ve bent some cards. And easily bent them back.

Marlboro Texan : Face Spread. Tiny Indices.

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Thin and light. I approve. Unfortunately the rest of the deck isn’t worth using for sleights and xcms moves and stuff.

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It be one way. See the five pointed star? No matter how you position a five pointed star, its one way. With silly rays coming from it at varying widths. If you do a spread, the rays looks like a shooting star….sort of. At least you only see the top star so that’s ok. Multi packet cuts…looks …. Supposedly good with stars dancing around in your hand. But. Theres no borders. But the full back matches the faces. Sort of. Sort of gets a 5/10.

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I’ve spent the last week cramming Mr. Lennart Green’s Top Shot. Mr. Lennart Green, why are you so awesome? We’ll get to that another time. With basically every deck at my disposal, This is by far the worst deck to use. Top shot. Is an application of thumb pressure, and whatever sliding friction is between the top two cards. In this case, the cards slide poorly for top shot. Its like,,,you pull one, you pull them all. But not saying that top shot won’t work. It’ll work. Just Poorly.

Comments

-Texans. Not Texan palmettos. These are Marlboros. Not Texan’s 45s which I have not acquired yet. These cards depict a ’lone’ star on the back. Wow. They come in red and blue. I wish all cards could come in red and blue at some point. Little details. Really small pips. Super wide court card pictures. Rusty vintage feel(visual) to the faces and backs. it’s a reproduction. They did well enough. it’s a promo. But its easily obtainable today. They come with poker rules, wrapped in wax paper. So, the ideal use would be to apply these for poker games. Poker sleights? No. No poker sleights for you due to the odd quality of these cards.

–Kudos ♪♫

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