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[QUOTE="BelgoSuisse, post: 1634204, member: 30299"]
Probably because I love poker but I hate gambling ?

You know, when you go down to the bakery and buy a piece of bread, there is a non zero chance that the bread you just bought will turn into thin air through random quantum fluctuation. It's incredibly tiny, but it's non zero. Even without going to this extreme, anytime you buy something, there is a really good chance that its value will fluctuate over time. It's exactly the same when you buy the right to see another street or the right to see a showdown at a poker table.

You can't define gambling in Manichean terms, because then either everything is gambling or nothing is gambling. Gambling can only be define as a continuum that would start from 0-gamble, the physically impossible state where the result of your action would be entirely predictable, to 1-gamble, the state where the result of your action is absolutely random. As soon as you do that, poker gets to be pretty low on the gamble scale provided you play a non trivial volume.
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