I have quite taken your measure.
But see here.

Should you care to play a game of banker?
I am ready to stake both the dead souls and the barrel-organ at cards." "No; to leave an issue to cards means to submit oneself to the unknown," said Chichikov, covertly glancing at the pack which Nozdrev had got in his hands.

Somehow the way in which his companion had cut that pack seemed to him suspicious.
"Why 'to the unknown' ?" asked Nozdrev.

"There is no such thing as 'the unknown.' Should luck be on your side, you may win the devil knows what a haul.

Oh, luck, luck!" he went on, beginning to deal, in the hope of raising a quarrel.