Although Axie Infinity is one of the top-earning NFT, I do not know how to play and I think the price now is too high to buy for playing the game. I prefer to trade it and make money from trading instead of from the game.
But we know that the Axie is not the same as poker but that game can be the one game that can earn money. Poker is not easy to play as we imagine as we need to know the rule. But with learning from many sources, maybe people do not have to spend a long time to know how to play poker. I only know traditional Remi, as iv4n said.
But honestly this Axie game was not related to poker but yeah through this game people can earn a profit out of their investment. And as far as i know there's no alternative to poker and gambling related activities was a luck and skill related.
There's some card game that can play alternatively to poker like Tong-its, Pusoy, Mahjong and many more. Currently not available on casino but its already available on mobile games that has play money currency but soon this might be offered on casino due to increasing demand of PVP games because of many PVP NFT game that already existing. Casino are now adapting decentralization so I believe adding more PVP gambling gambling games will be possible in the future.
If those companies can integrate their payment system using crypto, that can reach more gamblers, which will be a promotion from crypto for them. I am sure that a game like that will get attention from local gamblers who played traditional gambling games using fiat money to moves and try crypto to gamble. They can try to integrate with NFT as the NFT has now become a new trend. If one company succeeds in adding NFT into traditional gambling games, the other company will do the same, which means the traditional gambling game can go worldwide.
I agree with that, if those facilitators will learn deeper into crypto industry, it will be easier to integrate the system and more crypto gamblers will able to play the game.
A good alternative for poker if you want to kill some time and if you think that poker can be solved by algorithm, though I doubt since poker is a game of skills and strategy.
maybe I'm wrong about my understanding but that's how I see this game, even pro can't say that they will keep winning the game.