So, all things considered, being turned on by black stockings wasn't such a bad sexual card to have been dealt.

Half of the answer involves environmental differences: geography deals worse cards to some societies than to others.

Deane's death kept turning up like a bad card, no matter if he told himself that it hadn't been Deane.

The blank despair of his expression when he held bad cards made bluffing expensive.

Many times jargon is used to make the other team believe one's team has better or worse cards than it really does.

That's eight of 13 cards that either improve the hand or leave it no worse.

With no bad card dealt, I might have become a reasonably successful local television manager.

Ah, sadness and grief, I had drawn the very worst card, no doubt about it.

That run of bad cards I mentioned earlier.

It was that run of bad cards I mentioned earlier, extending itself through our second season.