Best playing cards

I've always been able to rely on Bicycle cards, they are always consistently good.

When getting plastic cards for personal use, never assume that purchasing replacement cards is a viable option. They're a different color from a card thats been aged and used a bit, so a replacement card is as good as marked. Keep in mind that a good poker player can use the placement of any single card in a deck to great advantage.

This isn't the case where there are tons of decks in use at a 50 table duplicate bridge match, where everyone uses each deck once.

Plastic cards are fairly useless for mechanics, unless they've practiced with them a bunch. In a poker game where you're likely to meet one of those guys, hopefully you'll be using new decks with high frequency anyway.

FYI, the KEM company folded and the brand was sold to American Playing Card Company, the same that makes Bicycle and Bee.

Still high quality cards, but nothing like what they used to be.