I have similar feelings. Its weird that online poker ever took off really. The fun of poker isn't playing the odds, its playing people. Its the psychology, the acting, the stacks of chips, the emotions - basically the theatre of the whole event.

Nothing quite like being faced with a massive raise and then your opponent fumbles their chips or something and now you know your deuces are good.

Only in live poker do you get such sustained experience reading people and attempting to influence their behaviour - much more exhilarating than making statistically correct decisions across a terminal!