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One question that comes up a lot (at least on this website) is: What is the difference between poker playing cards and bridge playing cards?

Bridge cards are also easier to put through a shuffling machine, which is a process that usually performed after every hand. The odd thing about casinos is that they often use poker cards for everything except poker. You’ll often see the wider cards on the likes of blackjack tables. Casinos simply look beyond the name and do whatever makes. Bridge Or Poker - Card Party Gift Bag. Click to enlarge. Price: $2.99CAD. 0 review(s) Purchase. Product is out of stock. Product Reviews.

Bridge size is not an usual size. All around the globe, everybody is using poker size cards (at home, in casinos, etc.). Some says bridge cards are more easy when you perform sleights or flourishes, but it doesn't matter. Bridge are more longer and less large, but with poker size you can achieve everything you want. Poker is relatively an easy game to learn even for beginners. On the other hand, bridge is quite complicated for starters and it takes a lot of skill in order to master it completely. Poker also popularized the term bluff. This bluff element in fact has paved way to today’s poker related terms like poker face, among others.

Let’s start with discussing first what isn’t different. Both poker and bridge decks have 52 cards, plus a joker or two. So you could play poker with bridge cards, or bridge with poker cards. Generally speaking, you could play any card game that requires a standard deck of cards (unlike, say, pinochle) with either a bridge deck or a poker deck.

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The difference between bridge cards and poker cards is simply one of size: poker cards are wider than bridge cards. This makes sense, if you think of how many cards you have to hold in your hand to play bridge.

Before we give the standard dimensions, we want to offer a word of caution. Playing card sizes can vary from accepted standards. If you use our dimensions for anything other than reading pleasure, you do so entirely at your own risk. As an example, if you construct a thousand playing card boxes and then find that your favorite playing cards don’t fit in them, we’re not responsible.

With that disclaimer out of the way, let’s see what we’ve got:

Bridge card size: We measured a card from Congress’ “Three Cheers” bridge set. The card is approximately 3.5 inches high and 2.25 inches wide.

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Poker card size: We measured a card used in actual play at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The card is approximately 3.5 inches high (same as the bridge card, obviously) and 2.5″ wide.

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Conclusion: Poker cards are about .25 inches wider than bridge cards. Now you know, and won’t have to stay up at night wondering.

Incidentally, most licensed cards, such as Pepsi playing cards, are poker-sized.