From English Illustrated, 1894.

"Luck versus brains in our better-known games," from The Sketch, 1911.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

Here's "Ruination" personified, from The Sketch, 1898.

Here are some gambling carrots by Arthur Thiele, date uncertain.

Some roulette from Die Muskete, 1916.

Here's a pipe reflecting the King of Spades.  From English Illustrated, 1894.  Ce n'est pas un moyen de tricher aux cartes.

One of the only differences between a roulette table and a cathedral is where the croupier sits.  We recall that "Religion is a gamble" (Michael Demers, Becoming Adam) and "Gambling is a religion" (Jason Mandryk, Operation World), that "The casino is a church" (Donald Patrick Redheffer, Streams of Thought) and "The church is a gambling house" (Hiley H. Ward, Understanding Reality Religion), that "Faith is a gamble" (Lucian Phoenix-Wolf, The Spiritual Truth Series) and "Gambling requires faith" (Mike Wojniaj, "Listen to Your Heart").  

A duck-headed butler opening the door for a Poe-esque gentleman?  Check.  (By the way, that's a precursor to David Lynch's commercial for the Sony Playstation, in which a duck says, "Welcome to the 'third place.'")  A faceless figure surrounded by disembodied cackling faces?  Check.  A crow in a jacket standing on a meditative sheep while an anthropomorphic dice cup spills and kills an innocent bystander?  Check.  A skeleton holding the Ace of Hearts?  Check.  Edward Gorey-esque despair on a settee?  Check.  Granted, the figure blowing his head off does seem rather too much.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1884.

From Life and Death or The Creeping Shadow by D. Lambden Flemming, 1873.