View: It is the time to switch to 4 Color Deck for Live Poker
In my humble opinion it is a bit archaic to continue with:
Red for both hearts and diamonds
Black for both spades and clubs
I advocate that we should make diamonds Blue and clubs Green.
1. It will make seeing the cards easier and surely speed up action.
2. New players who have cut their poker teeth online, while using 4 color decks, will have a more easier transition to live.
3. It will help minimize dealer errors (like the very costly one that recently happened at a WSOP event).
I know this breaks with "tradition" but poker has evolved over the years with different games, formats, and even some rules. Heck, check-raising used to be not allowed!
Let's make live poker great again with a 4 color deck!
If people started playing poker with a 4-color decks, how many do you think would be suggesting moving to a 2-color deck?
I think whichever one we started with would be very tough to change. But if we started 4-color, I think there would be some some momentum to change it, because seeing flashes of peoples cards would be much more informative.
I could change to four color. Trying to protect my cards live. Online four color is natural. But how many of recreational players have ever seen a four color live deck? How to even think about introducing it? I voted maybe in the future. After all jumbo index hasn't been around forever either. You yourself comfortably seeing what you have may feel and be more important than occasional flashing.
But give the idea 10-20 years to mature, less helicopters etc, I can't predict the outcome.
If casinos did go 4 color they'd have to find another colour to replace green. Just too much of an issue for colorblind players as it would clash with the red.
yeah online i vaguely recall there being a colorblind option for the 4 color deck variants to choose from
The internet tells 8% of the males are color blind. So easily there's one at the table. Color blind friendly decks are then paramount for even thinking about going forward.
The internet tells 8% of the males are color blind. So easily there's one at the table. Color blind friendly decks are then paramount for even thinking about going forward.
sadly color blind people are mostly ignored
for the most part it's a nothing burger, ie stoplights are fine because even if you couldn't tell the difference (most can) then you still have the top/middle/bottom to fall back upon
and there's also the slight contrast between the two, ie even if i see both as red, having them next to each other there'll be two kinds of red usually
but flashing red and yellow lights - which mean very different things and can have deadly consequences are indistinguishable to me so when driving solo and unable to ask a passenger what color it is and there's no car in front of to me "follow his lead" i just have to treat them all like flashing reds and stop to the great annoyance of any potential cars behind me
RR,
Have you considered getting a bumper sticker:
“Color Blind Buddy on Board”
?
it would definitely "if there's a flashing light in front of us my colorblind ass is stopping so get ready bruh"
