19th dictation. Earthly Powers

The dictation was difficult for me, because the vocabulary was very difficult. There were words that I had never herad before, and some words that I couldnn't understand although I knew them. I didn't find the pronunciation very clear, maybe because I didn't understand some words.

I didn't understand very well the sense of the text. Obviously, the first part is a description of a character, but I can't find the relation with the second part, which goes about poker.