KEM Arrow Red and Blue Poker Size Standard Index Playing Cards
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Description of KEM Arrow Red and Blue Poker Size Standard Index Playing Cards
KEM Plastic Playing Cards is a 60-year-old company specializing in one product - playing cards which are 100% cellulose acetate plastic. KEM plastic playing cards contain no vinyl, which is the raw material used by all other playing card manufacturers for their "plastic" playing cards. KEM cards can handle the wear and tear like no other brand of card in the industry. KEM's high performance cards will last longer, shuffle better, and deal in such a manner that you will never want to play with anything else again.These playing cards from KEM are made of 100 percent cellulose acetate plastic--a unique blend of paper and plastic that provides superior flexibility and strength. The cards are scuff- and break-resistant and completely washable, and are designed to deliver the classic snap and feel of paper with the exceptional durability of plastic. Included in this set are two decks (one red, one blue) of poker-sized playing cards (3 1/2 inches by 2 1/2 inches). The cards come with a durable storage case made of hard plastic. Each deck contains one joker.
About KEM Plastic Playing Cards
KEM Plastic Playing Cards is a 60-year-old company specializing in one product: playing cards that are 100 percent cellulose acetate plastic. KEM plastic playing cards contain no vinyl, which is the raw material used by other playing card manufacturers for their "plastic" playing cards. KEM cards can handle the wear and tear like no other brand of card in the industry. KEM's high-performance cards are designed to last longer, shuffle better, and deal in such a manner that you will never want to play with other cards again.
Sports reviews of KEM Arrow Red and Blue Poker Size Standard Index Playing Cards
Customer Review: Not worth the money.
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
These are pretty nice cards. They feel real nice and shuffle well. But for the money they are simply not a good value.
I use Copag, Modiano, and Dal Negro plastic cards and decided to give these KEMs a try. I've never seen such bad quality control as these have. There were several cards in one deck which were badly scratched across the back rendering one deck unplayable.
I received no response from ChipandGames so I sent the deck back to USPC in Cincinnati (fingers crossed). We'll see what happens.
Long story short... don't buy KEM cards. I've used a TON of plastic cards for poker over the years and while KEM cards do have a nice feel to them (about as nice as Copag) they are simply too fragile and easily marked.
At nearly twice the price of Copag these KEM cards are absolutely laughable to me. I consider them and the entire USPC a joke. How can they expect to compete with oversees companies who produce a far better product for half the money?
Buy Copag... end of story.
Customer Review: Bad quality control
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
Was using Copags, decided to try out the supposedly gold standard in cards.
Just got the deck, and was disappointed to find that 4 of the cards had significant defects in the paint. The 4 cards had paint flakes on them that can't be washed or scrubbed off, and were rough to touch, screwing up the smoothness/flatness of the cards.
Also, a number of other cards had small stain lines in the white background, but this was ok since it didn't screw up the flatness of the cards.
Go with Copags. Cheaper and better quality control.
Customer Review: Not washproof
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
The description and the box made it a point that these cards are washable. We were playing with them at the park and it started raining; we put the cards away, thinking 'they're washproof, it will be ok' but when we got them back out in the evening the cards were completely ruined.
Complete waste of money. Used them only once and would like a refund due to misleading advertising.