You were literally playing whit your life because in this card game if you lose its either your life or the tripled of the amount of money you're playing whit. Your called the fox because your either cheating or tricking them you play against and because of that you are nearing the top and all you need is to beat one more to get to the top player. You won and now your against the top player aka the Joker but you were losing because he didn't fall for tricks or your cheating and it's just you two