 How might the card game had gone differently if Mr. Graham was not present?
It turned sideways and, without any side-slip, went right up the stoop of a brownstone opposite, coming to rest with its nose inside the front door, which a man opened at that moment. The sight of this threw another driver into a skid, and when he and the taxi had stopped sliding around, they were face to face, arranged crosswise to the street. This gave them exactly no room to move either forward or backward, for the car had its back to a hydrant and the taxi to a lamp. Discounting the fact that you could have prearranged it, if my dim provisional theory is right, that would be actually impossible. "I suppose you know that there are two great apparently opposite principles governing the Universe—random and design.
 Nat would have a more random pattern of losing and winning hands
 Nat would have never hosted a card game in the late afternoon  Nat would have continued to win with straights and other rare hands  Nat would have lost all of his hands instead of won all of them  Nat would have a more random pattern of losing and winning hands