5 Card Stud Game - Constantly Repainting Screen

I am currently making a 5 card stud game for my Java Programming class at my highschool. I am deciding to go a little above expectations and make my poker game a little more fun than just comparing a few cards. However I want there to be text that is changing on my screen, but the repaint() is not the most reliable way to make the screen update, I am wanting a way for have the program constantly update the screen so that if I do something like someLabel.setText("Text"); then the text will update automatically whenever it is changed.

Here is my declarations and main/constructor method

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.Random;
public class FiveCard extends JFrame implements ActionListener {

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Here is the method addMainPage, which is called in the constructor. Whenever the enterButton is pressed, the actionListener directs it to loadBoard();

I use GridBag Layout, so to skip through all of the constraints

public void addMainPage() {
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
players[i] = new Player();
}
Icon cardBackImage = new ImageIcon("back.gif");

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Game intro is a method that changes the text of a label every second using .setText(), however it does not work because the enterButton is pressed, then after loadBoard() and gameIntro() is ran, it repaints the frame with the board objects and the gameIntro's final .setText() command.The action listener is simple...

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (e.getSource() == enterButton) {
players[0].setName(playerNameField.getText());
loadBoard();
}
p.repaint();
}