Playing Card Holder Tray (Standard Poker Size) - Draw/Discard Deck Piles

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UPDATE 2020/01/21: After some play testing, it was determined that the original design was somewhat claustrophobic. You really had to be deliberate in your placement of the cards to keep them from turning diagonally or just getting wedged if the angle wasn't perfect. I have made a revised version ("Playing Card Holder - REVISED.stl") with a flared-out top end and with side walls that extend further toward the middle to prevent the cards from turning or binding so easily.
The in-laws requested a way to manage the discard pile for their games of "Hand and Foot" so I went searching for an easy solution...
This is a remix of openTankist's "Race for the galaxy organizer/card holder." I liked the shape of the actual card holder portion, so I chopped it down to a single stack, wiped out the logo on the bottom, rounded over some of the hard edges, and flared out the base of the corner posts to give it a very little bit of decoration. Nothing fancy here.
My printed part fits a Maverick brand deck of standard poker playing cards (just about as good as bicycle in my opinion, but at about $1 per deck - try some if you can find them!) with just a little bit of wiggle room for the deck. You can easily scale this up or down to suit another size of cards if desired.
I went with 5-line wall thickness and 20% cubic infill using a 0.4mm nozzle with 0.1mm layer height (0.2mm for first layer) and mine came out just as I wanted it to be. There is a bit of flex in the base if you purposely bend it, but it doesn't wobble around on its own just picking it up. This is a simple, light-weight, and effective means of managing a discard or draw pile for whatever games you play. The curved undercuts on each edge make picking up the entire pile very easy to do.