The Outcasts of Poker Flat

What is the extended metaphor of poker in the story?

why is this fitting?

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"With him life was at best an uncertain game." (Metaphor)

In Oakhurst's eyes, life looks much like a game of poker. Here, the narrator explicitly compares the two, invoking the themes of luck, chance, and fate that dominate the story.

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