On a side note, I had the pleasure of seeing him at a Laura London Presents at the Hippodrome Casino toward the end of last year. An intimate evening with him performing Twisting the Aces, The Reformation and Once Upon a Time, amongst others, and a candid Q&A. A splendid evening!
One of the questions a member of the audience threw at him, was his choice of cards. Naturally, he's a Studs man and regular blue and red Bicycles. Not once did he mention his decks. He opened his briefcase and three were just red decks of Studs and Bicycles.
Studs aren't so easily found these days - he must have stocked up, big time. It still boggles my mind that Walgreens stopped making Studs in favor of Play-Rights. You can't even make a proper poker pair out of Play-Rights unless you custom-build your own deck in the second color by splitting and re-gluing two entire decks, one for the faces and the other for the backs!
Sorry for yet another late reply.
I'm disabled (housebound, actually) and am on a LOT of morphine sulfate for pain relief. As a result, it's affected my short-term memory. Putting it bluntly, I forget! A lot!! I forgot to remember to forget, rings a bell! Haha... 😂
Yes. I concur. It's insane, to be perfectly honest. Surely, someone at their HQ has heard that there's a market for Studs. It beggars belief, really.
Talking of Play Rights, I purchased a brick from a dealer on eBay recently and thought they were
okay to handle. That was until they started to clump. I'd only used them for 2 days of moderate use.
Plus, the back design (if you can call it a design) is atrocious. What with todays technology, Photoshop, Illustrator, et al, you would have thought they could come up with something half decent. No imagination at all. And the tuck box! Good grief!!!
Anyway, enough of my carping. That's all I seem to do, nowadays ;-)
