Card player
A card player was a card game , whereas, one  who played poker was known as a poker player and one who played baccarat was known as a baccarat player. A dealer was the player responsible for passing out the playing cards to the other players. 

When Jean-Luc Picard joined the poker game with his  senior officers for the first time in 2370, he recalled that "actually, I used to be quite a card player in my youth." ()

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