Idk about that, Shani. Check out his objections and hesitation prior to the game when Vidur extends the invite in Sabha Parva. Aside from acknowledging Shakuni's chhal-kapat tendencies, he pretty much calls gambling a sin and tries to get Vidur to tell him not to do it so that one father figure's order could override the other. And since he implies that tactic would have worked on him, I think it was neither addiction nor kshatriya code that motivated him to play as much as obedience to a wrongly chosen father figure. Even though Draupadi refers to it as a gambling problem later on, I think that it was more of a backhanded motivational tactic. When you call someone weak, they have a tendency to want to show their strength. When you call them a reckless gambler, they may become more likely to demonstrate caution and self-control. So yeah, I think it was a case of Krishnaa demonstrating the rhetorical skills she's learned from Krishna.
Exactly my point.If in ⭐️B, Virata really knew who the Pandavas were right from the beginning, how is it that ⭐️Yudi the "dyut virodhi" was playing dice in Monday's epi, that too after such a horrible fiasco?I mean, epic Yudi at least has the excuse of being a dice / gambling addict. But what is the excuse of ⭐️Yudi the "dyut virodhi"?