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Name: Bicycle Black Tiger (w/red pips)
Date: 6.16.2009

Poker : A Special Version of our famous Bicycle Deck

Left : Air-Cushion Finish Made in U.S.A.

Right : The U.S. Playing Card Co. Cincinnati, Ohio 45212

Cost: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
For what they’re worth, they’re expensive. You’re paying for an E branded deck with a coating of black ink. You should wait until E ends up with overstock and decides to have a sale. Yep.

Availability: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○

Ellusionist’s Black Tiger brand. The all white pip version is now…no longer for sale? Yea. They had a sale to get rid of them or something. I should know. I get their emails in my spam folder. Red pips however are still available. Don’t think they’ll disappear for quite some time.

Life/Finish: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○
For carrying the name of ‘tiger’, they’re not that strong. Still stronger than your average bicycle decks, but not by much. Does not compare at all to bees, or other casino stock. Finish. It says air-cushion. Its basically your average air-cushion. With a slathering of black ink.

Can you see the wear of white on the card edges? : /
Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○

Its ok. Nothing good. Nothing bad.

Back Design: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○

Oh no . Its another 808 rider back. E style. Give it a black border. Right. Way to start the madness of black and white. Wouldn’t black and white ink … be cheaper to produce…? Whatever. Looks,,,’bold’ in spreads. Not too flashy or catch in fans though. Face spreads have red pips to stand out. Otherwise its like it’s a color inversion cousin of the ghost. Sort of. That would actually in fact be the black ghost. Which I’m avoiding at the moment, until E releases another deck or something.

Invisible (Elastic) Threadwork : ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○

Grab a deck of tigers. Hit up all the edges with black sharpie. And you now have an ideal deck to use for thread works. Because. You know. Its black and all….,,,,,Of course, theres other decks but,,,they’re all E as well. Oh well . Pick and choose. Well, if I was doing thread work, I’d favor black bordered decks, if it weren’t for the point and shout of ‘trick’ deck! Or magnet! Or string! But .. But.. Its invisible thread.

Comments

Tiger : I have a heart and it isn't black.

-As always, I picked up a bunch of these for cheap. Most of them turned into gifts for friends and stuff. Last deck I have in reserve. With sharpied edges, since I was into threadwork then. Sort of. Pricy deck. At Disneyland they’re like 8$ a deck. Good if you want to show off something besides your skill with cards. Yea. Sure. My deck just sits in my case. Shrugs. I don’t have much in favor of black tigers. Don’t have much against them either. If bicycles were average in the card stock world. Then tigers would be average in the custom card stock world. Whatever that means. Theres no tigers on the deck anyways…you need the gaff deck for that. What. Yea…ok…yawn…another day,,,another bicycle deck.

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Its Monday, post earlier, since I’m gone during the evening. I find that the average post takes me about half an hour. Not bad for a time commitment of sorts.

Name: Absolut Deck
Date: 5.25.2009

Left : 10 DRINK RECPIES INSIDE. PERFECT WITH ANY HAND.

Right : 10 DRINK RECPIES INSIDE. PERFECT WITH ANY HAND.

Cost: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
At the time of this post, Ebay is your only bet. Average cost of these decks is usually sitting in the 10$ range. I was able to get 5$ a deck on ebay…but that’s just me. They used to be cheaper. Supposedly. They probably won’t stay cheap though. Production stopped a few years back and such.

Absolut : Aos, Joker, Court Cards, Ad Card

-The Court Cards; they be holding drinks. Difference betweens suits is the pips on their outfits. The Joker’s all out. AoS Is a little on the bold side. Ad Card is a nice addition for ad/collectible purposes.

Absolut : Pips have drink recipes on them.

Availability: ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Ebay again. And diminishing supply.

Life/Finish: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○
The finish. Its PLASTIC. Plastic means it basically lasts forever. Unless you’re willingly crimping them. Don’t do it. After a month of use, dropping it on a table, the deck still lands full flat. No odd bends to them. Pretty good if you want to have something to use forever. Pretty bad if you want to do fans and spreads. Pretty good if you want to do cuts and XCM. Pretty bad if you want a non plastic deck. On a side note, the box is kinda unstable. Like the lid. Don’t do box flips. The cards come flying out.

Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
They’re PLASTIC. Plastic is bad.

Back Design: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○

Blue and silver in a white border. Vodka bottle in the middle. Uhm. That vodka bottle in the middle makes it one way. So do all the clubs and spades running north to south. But that’s not why you’re using them of course. Pretty. I told my friends there were hearts on the back
They didn’t see them behind the vodka bottle. .. .. .. Still. Kudos to Absolut for a good advertising product.

Center Double: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○

Plastics cards are super thin. In addition they ‘stick’ to each other. Doubles don’t get any easier then this. Well, at least the center double I use.

Comments

-Absolut Vodka. I wouldn’t drink these cards, since… I don’t drink. But they have drink recpies on them. 10 of them. Repeated on all four suits. Not that you would use this deck for drinking games or anything. Plasticky. Good for XCM, unless you count fans and spreads as XCM. Rarara…uhhh I personally like them. I don’t need more though since they last.

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