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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMScott" data-source="post: 1871515" data-attributes="member: 11734">That would be it. Poker in all incarnations is about the people more than the cards. Some poker games emphasize this more than others, but all put a premium on your play against a particular opponent. There are very few situations where a particular hand will always be played the same way.I don't really see the implied dichotomy between fun and gambling; gambling is supposed to part of the fun of poker, just like scoring goals is part of the fun of hockey. I'm sure there are people who remove gambling from poker and have fun with what's left (the simple card game "War" is essentially poker with no real gambling and a one-card hand, and lots of kids love it), just as people can remove scoring from hockey and have fun with what's left, but in both cases I think the audience is different from the "mainstream" game.</blockquote>