A card game machine includes a machine base, a track unit arranged on the machine base, a displacement motor mounted on the machine base, two card-recovery slots, a video recognition device adapted for recognizing the types and spots of each individual playing card of a set of playing cards being arranged on the machine base, a slide coupled to and movable along the track unit, a transmission belt coupled between the slide and the displacement motor for enabling the slide to be moved by the displacement motor along the track unit, and a first pickup unit and a second pickup unit carried on the slide alternatively controllable to run a playing card pickup step, a playing card recognition step, a playing card exhibition step and a playing card discarding step.