cardplaying

alternative card playing

1. uncountableThe playing of card games.

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   It doesn’t seem accidental that the phrase “luck of the draw” can apply equally to cardplaying or gunslinging, or that the denouement of “Lucky You” — a showdown between Mr. Bana’s character and his nemesis, L. C., played by Robert Duvall — recalls not just the 52-card catharsis of “The Cincinnati Kid” but also the showdowns that climax many great westerns.

   2007 April 29, John Anderson, “Love and Loneliness on the Las Vegas Strip”, in New York Times