User blog comment:Mgdodl/"The Gamblers" Discussion/@comment-3045936-20200131042502/@comment-98.115.189.149-20200131191548

Perhaps the issue of curse vs luck is meant to be ambiguous. For one thing, it kept the Winchesters guessing about what was going on, and was a hit to their self image. It revealed some of the ways they think about the world and themselves differently from each other. Later on, maybe there will be a reaveal about what was going on, from Chuck.