Will playing poker help understand math?

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I figured it would provide a way to use these concepts in real time and actually understand how they work by practically applying them. Like the Confucius quote goes: "I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand". I also figured this would be a good stepping stone to ingrain instincts for investing so I actually have some sort of basis to absorb all other financial info and separate the scams from actual valuable info.

I want to truly learn math, not just repeat character strings of things I have read. Actual digestion and synthesis of information. Thoughts, /sci/? Good idea?