thickness of flocked material 14 the recess is deep enough to prevent the flocked material from extending out from the plate so far as to interfere with the insertion of cards into the holder but is shallow enough to ensure that the playing cards make a good surface contact with the flocked material the playing card holder described thus far is preferably manufactured in two molded sections each section including a respective one of the plates and a portion of the base various arrangements may be used to hold the sections securely together at the base for example the holder can be made from plastics such as polypropylene and polyethylene with snaps provided along the lower portion of one section and mated with sockets in the other section alternatively the holder could be formed from certain types of plastics such as polystyrene which can be chemically or ultrasonically bonded together it is desirable that some means be provided to give extra assurance that a player 39 s cards cannot be casually observed by other players to this end the lateral extremities of the card holder have been curved inwardly toward the player so that the cards will be similarly curved thus placing their faces at a greater angle to the other players however simply curving the card holder has been found to interfere with the ease with which cards may be inserted and removed from the holder if the spacing of the gap between the plates is such as to still securely hold the cards in place to this end a unique design.