gleek

In plain Gleek, his career was about to get hit with the force of a thousand grape slushies.

Gleek is the proper name of the second game, and not check, as your correspondent suggests.

Was it ever heard there was a game at gleek at the ordinary before, without counting tiddy?

To gleek is used in Shakespeare for "to make sport, to jest," &c.

The index of extravagance at gleek seems to have advanced alarmingly in the course of the seventeenth century.

Gleek is described in Cottons Complete Gamester, where it is called a noble and delightful game or recreation.