[It'd be fruitless getting into that argument again, so he shrugs and gets ready for a switch in tactics.]
Fine, do what you want. Maybe you'd rather help people than play yourself? Like, you could give advice and stuff, but it wouldn't be your money at stake.
[Since he sees competition as the point of playing, that route seems like a viable compromise between their ideas of how to play the game.]
[Action]!
[It'd be fruitless getting into that argument again, so he shrugs and gets ready for a switch in tactics.]
Fine, do what you want. Maybe you'd rather help people than play yourself? Like, you could give advice and stuff, but it wouldn't be your money at stake.
[Since he sees competition as the point of playing, that route seems like a viable compromise between their ideas of how to play the game.]