Burning photo
Why did Tomas burn the photo in the end?
shareTo set her free, I think. All photos possessed by gamblers meant that this person's life and fate was their property. By burning her photo he gave her life and fate back. This is the second time he did this, actually, the first being his line "I don't love you anymore" which prevented her from entering the crash plane. And again it's an act of love which saves a life. Which was probably the (or one) reason that Max von Sydow was willing to die and let Tomas live.
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Indeed, but not indeed on the Von Sydow part. He let Thomas play to see if he could even beat love with his luck :) Or at least thats why I think, turned out to be a draw.
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Any last words ?
Shut the *beep* up
-Mutant Chronicles-
It did not "turn out to be a draw". If Samuel kept the gun pointed at Thomas (i.e. if things went the usual way) the gun would almost certainly have fired and Samuel would have won.
What we had in that scene is a typical Schroedinger's paradox (only with a gun instead of a cat :). We can't know whether the bullet is there until the trigger is pulled. And until the trigger is pulled, the bullet is there and not there at the same time.
The outcome we observed with the gun not firing is only valid in the context of the gun being pointed at Sara. And the result can't be retrospectively applied to the situation when the gun is pointed at Thomas.
Um, yeah, except that the luck came when the bullet was chambered (or not), not when the trigger was pulled. Your hypothesis assumes that luck is some type of esoteric sorcery from another dimension or something, capable of overshadowing simple Newtonian physics. The gun was chambered with Tomas' luck, Sara's luck also played into it somehow, but then the lights go off and we see that Tomas was the luckiest of them all. Doesn't make sense that he should be that lucky in the first instance, but not the second when the lights go off.
And yeah, he burns the photo to set her free or something: it's never explained (like quite a bit of this movie).