Comment by wduquette

In terms of actually playing games with cards, the effective number of permutations can be much smaller (though still large enough to be going on with). In many card games, the suits are distinct but functionally identical; you could swap spades rank-for-rank with hearts and get a functionally equivalent deck. In Klondike solitaire, the tableau is concerned with red cards and black cards, not all four suits.

I imagine somebody has done research on this: for a given card game, how many functionally distinct shuffles there are.