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Well, then, apparently you favor the gambling part of poker, as opposed to the card-play part.

That's a big part of poker, of course. Which is why poker isn't poker without high stakes gambling.

I think it's how the gambling interacts with the card play, there's a punishment for being wrong. And it teaches you to not be so reliant on random chance, to beat your opponents with your chips and not your cards. A lot of the things I learned at the poker tables of my youth have helped later in life, I just wish the lessons in when to say when I got in the rest of life had transfered to the table. I will say everybody should find their addiction and actually allow it to mess them up once, it's a very interesting sensation to know you should get up and leave and not be able to, and there's a very valuable life lesson in being completely helpless to yourself once. It taught me a lot about self control and why it's a good thing.