1. A card apparatus, comprising: a card-handling system including internal compartments; a card recognition system configured to recognize card information including a rank and a suit of each card passing through the card-handling system; and at least one processor operably coupled with the card-handling system and the card recognition system, the at least one processor configured to: control the card-handling system to insert cards within the internal compartments prior to being delivered to an output tray; maintain a record of the card information separately from a record of position information for each card indicating which internal compartment each card has been inserted; and associate the position of each card with its corresponding card information.