Bicycle playing cards by the United States Playing Card Company are widely considered the most popular and high-quality decks in the world, and rightfully so. Within its price range ($2-5) these decks haven't encountered any competition for over 130 years.

Bicycle playing cards are the preferred choice for performance by some of the most famous magicians in the world, oftentimes they can be spotted on telly, and they're omnipresent at the board games stands in brick-and-mortar stores. Despite being hands down the most recognizable brand of the USPCC, Bicycle Rider Back is accompanied by thousands of other incredibly popular designs. All Las Vegas casinos use cards produced by this company, poker players enjoy the durability and robustness of USPCC cards, and the vast majority of new decks for cardistry and magic are being printed on this well-known factory in Erlanger, Kentucky. 

As a rule, professionals, respectable gambling houses in the US, illusionists David Blaine and David Copperfield use not plastic, but paper-made Bicycle cards. Plastic cards are much more difficult to manipulate with and have inferior handling and feel. The majority of USPCC cards consist of two rolls of trademark paper glued together with black glue, forming the stock. Depending on technologies, additional finish or coating is introduced later during laminating or the cards can be cut straight away, should the coating be already embedded into the paper rolls beforehand. Then the uncut sheets are being cut and the items placed inside the boxes. You can find out more about the manufacturing process in our post back from 2011, where we published a behind-the-scenes video from theory11 for the United States Playing Card Company.

Many people will be intrigued to find out that due to its unique manufacturing process Bicycle playing cards (and naturally any other deck from USPCC factory) could be split into not two, but three layers. Watch our video feat. Vitaly Chaban and learn how to split the most popular USPCC cards in seconds. It's up to you what you will do with those layers, however experienced magicians will find tons of applications for this technique, in particular, when creating gimmicks and gaff cards.

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