No decent gambler, no competent card player would ever consider that what we do is play cards. People occasionally flash some skill or some cunning, but it's gospel that all of us basically suck. Lady Luck stacks the deck against each in random fashion. It's a comedy, where everyone's role is only a caricature. Those are the real hands we bring to the table each week, and our card playing is just a pretense to trade jokes and gibes, sometimes gently, and often not.
Nothing is sacred.
Not race, not politics, not religion. No man, and certainly no woman. The only sop to political correctness is the diversity of our insults. We are all natural-born losers. Knaves of luck, clowns of chance.