It is a good idea to play poker to improve your skills.I think that trading is a lot like gambling and the only difference is trading has better publicity compared to gambling.
While gambling is considered bad by most of the community trading is considered neutral.However you should be careful as both in gambling or trading you risk to become addicted.
For me playing poker is also can be one of reason to improve skills and about gambling & trading the two is have similarities because you can win and lose while playing gambling & trading..
Holistically poker look harder compare to trading because am a fan of the two, poker will give you experience and develop your skills to become a professional but for trade, you can get ride of it without experience on it. The very first time I traded, I wasn't haven a good.knowledge about trading but I did it and was able to make some profits from it. Poker is a skill based compare to trade.
Well I think both of them are good if you consider one of them risky or better than the other one so you will never be able to choose any. According to me if you have interest in games you can gamble and if you are good at trading you can trade...poker is good game and interesting one but I like trading more than this.