The old guy clearly wasn't playing with a full deck.
It may very well be that I'm not playing with a full deck.
It is played by 3-6 players with a 32-card deck.
A couple guys came by with a deck of cards, trying to get up a game.
It was played with an entire deck of playing cards.
The game is played by 2, 3 or 4 players with a standard deck of 52 playing cards.
The point, he said, is that "every once in a while we've got to check and make sure we're playing with a full deck."
The phrase was: The guys not playing with a full deck.
The game is not played with a standard deck of playing cards.
It is played with a single standard 52-card deck of playing cards.