Children of a Poker God?

Here's an interesting discussion (slightly edited) from a recent online tournament at National League of Poker:

Dealer:　flopblogger wins Main Pot ($4970) with Flush, jack high....
Me:　PTL
_warren_:　ptl
gunn3r11:　ptl
Dealer:　raysab wins Main Pot ($8795)
_warren_:　PTL
gunn3r11:　what is that
_warren_:　yea
Me:　Glad you asked. Praise the Lord.
gunn3r11:　oh cool
_warren_:　got ya
Me:　Hoping Jesus is everyone's Lord here. :-)
_warren_:　he is mine
gunn3r11:　hes mine and I want everyone to know it
Me:　Amen!
_warren_:　i heard tht

We should stop here and ask: who is your "Lord"?  Perhaps you think you don't need one.  The Bible inspired by God disagrees....

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.... For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile -- the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him. - Romans 10:9, 12

We could go deeper into that topic -- but our main point here is how another player at the online table responded to the discussion:

raysab:　i pray to the poker gods lol
_warren_:　lol i bet you do
gunn3r11:　lol
Me:　Trouble is, there's only one God.
gunn3r11:　even when I win I know I didnt do it by myself
raysab:　not in poker
gunn3r11:　and its never just for me
Me:　Very true, Gunn.
We've heard many players refer to "poker gods" over the years.  Many Christians (and for that matter many Jews) believe there's really only one God:

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. - Deuteronomy 6:4

Yet sometimes you come across verses in the Bible which challenge your thinking.  Right now we're studying these fascinating words:

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods'?  If he called them 'gods,' to whom the word of God came -- and the Scripture cannot be broken...." - John 10:34-35

What's going on here?  Is the Lord Jesus saying other people can be "gods" as well?  Could you become a "poker god," somehow influencing the outcome of a big hand or tournament?

We'll make these open questions.  What do you think about them?  Leave comments with your thoughts, and we'll share ours as we continuing studying this.