Why do card-table scenes keep cropping up in awards contenders like "The Card...

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Why do card-table scenes keep cropping up in awards contenders like "The Card Counter"? Maybe it’s the way the slow click of chips on green felt sets a tense rhythm or how rack focus pulls us from a player’s steely gaze to the stakes piled in front of