The problem I have with the Black Mack quest is I have to play Poker in the first place. hehehe Im just not good at poker..

Well, THIS poker - yeah, I understand that! I get through the quest by bluffing the first two hands. If that doesn't work, stand up to reset the NPCs and sit back down and bluff again. Bluffing only works on the first two hands...and only about half the time.

Yea i too want a full deck of cards

Aye, sven's been a few cards short of a full deck for sometime. been hanging out with scary mary lately too. :laughks2:

My pirate used to have like 270+ cards, and no where near a full deck.

He must have been picking up those cards, you and a few others been droppin!

Update: as of today, I have 789 cheat cards, all the hearts, diamonds and clubs. I have ten spades: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, __, 9, T, J, __, K, __. All the recent cards that have filled the gap have been from "Black Mack" mini quests...but I just did 21 mini-quests in a row with no new cards. 10 to 30 minutes each quest (subject to a near infinite number of interruptions.)

Update: just got the queen of spades. My 2GP blackjack swap now looks like this: http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/r...7_12-27-12.jpg

So close now, it hurts!

ok, so you got the Queen, how many total cards do you have now?
Wondering how many more you had to get before you got the Queen, you had 789 cards before.

804. Yes, all one by one from Black Mack, I think. Let's see. When I remember to write them down on my scrap of paper here...hmmm. I must've gotten a handful from urchinfists or molusks. In the last four days: ah, js, 4s, jd, th, 5h, 5s, jh, 6h, qc, 3c, ks, ad, 7s, 4h, 7s, 9h, qh, 6h, 3d, 8c, qc, 9d, td, qc, 6d, 6s, 9h, 5d, 8d, tc, 4d, 7h, 3s, kc, 9h, td, 3s, qd, 7d, ks, jd, 3s, 9s, 8h, qs, 5s.

Wow nice set of cards
i think the most i ever gotten was 2 in 1 day lol :laughks2:

OK, now up to 810. ac, 5c, jd, 2c, 4h, 4c. Only a couple interruptions, so those six were close to optimal speed. :-(
Looking at timestamps here - yup - 15 minutes average.
I can see them making the quest convoluted, to prevent automation and whatnot. But the rewards on each round here, are quite lacking!

Since then: 3d, 5c, 3h, 5h, qc, 5c, ks, js, 3s, 9c, qs, 5h, td, 8s. Yay! http://s476.photobucket.com/albums/r...8_10-57-11.jpg

Only one to go, now...http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/r...8_10-57-46.jpg...but I think it may be a doozie.

kc, 2s, ad, 5h, 5s, qs, as. Switching to a busy ideal server seems to have helped.

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/r...18_14-15-7.jpg

Total now is 830 cheat cards.

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/r...8_15-28-16.jpg

which building is he in?

[singing] "It's the ace of spades"