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Thank you for looking it up and pointing it out. I probably should have looked in the Biur Halocha while I was looking up the Mishna Berura.
In the Chofetz Chaim’s words:
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Translated:
And they are accustomed to saying songs and praises etc: In the teshuvos of the Maharshal siman 85 that he write that it is fitting that the simcha (joyousness) should be blended and saturated with a Torah-like simcha, and should not be nullified from its establishment. And in our multitude of sins there are men that instead of songs and praises that are fitting to praise H-shem (may he be blessed) upon the miracles that he performed for us, they increase the mockery of card-playing, and the holy seforim ascribe much wickedness to this, and one who watches his neshama (soul) will distance himself from this.