A table game system for detecting arrangements of shuffled playing cards of a plurality of decks that have been shuffled, the system comprising: a card shoe that: includes a card housing for housing the shuffled playing cards ; includes an opening through which the cards housed in the card housing can be drawn one by one onto a game table; includes a card reader , wherein the card reader is configured to read information from respective ones of the cards drawn from the card housing; stores rules of a card game; is configured to determine a winner and/or loser of the card game; and includes an output via which the card shoe is configured to output a result of the determination, and a computer with a memory, wherein the computer is configured to detect whether there is any of one or more predefined special arrangements of the shuffled playing cards based on ranks or suits of the cards drawn one by one from the card housing onto the game table, the one or more predefined special arrangements including one or more of the following: for each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards of the cards drawn from the card housing, the respective rank of the respective card is larger or smaller by one than an immediately preceding one of the cards drawn from the card housing; a respective rank of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards of the cards drawn from the card housing is the same; a respective suit of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards of the cards drawn from the card housing is the same; and a same sequence in which a predefined number of the cards drawn from the card housing are consecutively drawn is repeated. includes a card housing for housing the shuffled playing cards ; includes an opening through which the cards housed in the card housing can be drawn one by one onto a game table; includes a card reader , wherein the card reader is configured to read information from respective ones of the cards drawn from the card housing; stores rules of a card game; is configured to determine a winner and/or loser of the card game; and includes an output via which the card shoe is configured to output a result of the determination, and a computer with a memory, wherein the computer is configured to detect whether there is any of one or more predefined special arrangements of the shuffled playing cards based on ranks or suits of the cards drawn one by one from the card housing onto the game table, the one or more predefined special arrangements including one or more of the following: for each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards of the cards drawn from the card housing, the respective rank of the respective card is larger or smaller by one than an immediately preceding one of the cards drawn from the card housing; a respective rank of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards of the cards drawn from the card housing is the same; a respective suit of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards of the cards drawn from the card housing is the same; and a same sequence in which a predefined number of the cards drawn from the card housing are consecutively drawn is repeated. for each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards of the cards drawn from the card housing, the respective rank of the respective card is larger or smaller by one than an immediately preceding one of the cards drawn from the card housing; a respective rank of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards of the cards drawn from the card housing is the same; a respective suit of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards of the cards drawn from the card housing is the same; and a same sequence in which a predefined number of the cards drawn from the card housing are consecutively drawn is repeated. <EOS>