To reduce monitoring staff and reduce cost by automating monitoring, a
card game monitoring system includes a wirelessly communicating,
identifying information recording device embedded in a card for recording
information for identifying itself; identifying information reading
devices provided at a card takeout slot of a card distributor in contact
with the card at the start of a game and in card distribution areas of a
card game table in contact with the card in the middle of the game, for
reading by wireless communication the identifying information; a control
device for monitoring consistency between the identifying information
read with the identifying information reading device at the start of the
game and the identifying information read likewise in the middle of the
game by comparing both pieces of the identifying information; a notifying
lamp for issuing a notice of information inconsistency, if any; a
recording device for recording identifying information and results of
monitoring; and an invalidating device for invalidating the identifying
information of retrieved cards.