To make a card easily seen, to facilitate the card operation, and to prevent damage to the surface of the card such as the picture pattern surface of the card.

The holding stand 101 is provided with a stand part 102 and a holding groove 103, which is formed on this stand part and to which a card C for game can be inserted. Concerning the stand part 102, the cross section is almost eddy-shaped and the outer form is shaped into cylinder in the form of parallelogram. On the backside, a gap between one terminal part and the other terminal part becomes the holding groove 102, this holding groove is opened while being inclined downward from the upper end to the bottom and from the front side to the rear side, the card for game can stand up inside this holding groove while being inclined and there is a gap between the part of the card for game inserted into the holding groove and the holding groove.