play one's cards right

:  swordplay

:  game, sport

:  the conduct, course, or action of a game

:  to engage in sport or recreation :  frolic

:  to have sexual relations

:  to move aimlessly about :  trifle

:  to cleanse, disentangle, and collect together (fibers) by the use of cards preparatory to spinning

:  an instrument or machine for carding fibers that consists usually of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back

:  an implement for raising a nap on cloth

:  playing card

:  a game played with cards

:  card playing

:  to place or fasten on or by means of a card

:  to provide with a card

:  to list or record on a card

: cardinal

:  righteous, upright

:  being in accordance with what is just, good, or proper

:  conforming to facts or truth :  correct

:  qualities (such as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval

:  something to which one has a just claim: such as

:  the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled

:  according to right

:  in the exact location, position, or moment :  precisely

:  in a suitable, proper, or desired manner

:  to do justice to :  redress the injuries of

:  justify, vindicate

:  avenge