Presidential Poker
Presidential Poker playing cards, USA, 2004.
A rather strange pack of 2004 election cards published by CereBel Publishing, New York in which the diamond suit represents “flattering Republicans” and the spade suit “unflattering Republicans”, while hearts represent “flattering Democrats” and the clubs “unflattering Democrats”. The 2-9 pip cards have symbols which convey the respective positive (flattering) and negative (unflattering) aspects of each Party’s campaign. There is a poker rule on the bottom of each card, while the extra card refers to www.prezpoker.com (no longer accessible) for further information and clarification. The aces, court cards and the 10 of each suit have coloured sketches / cartoons of the major players.
Above: Presidential Poker playing cards published by CereBel Publishing, USA, 2004.
By Peter Burnett
United Kingdom • Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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