I will elaborate further because I feel I was way too unclear XD
The "risking your life" or not is not the problem. Usogui was risking his life in almost all the manga, but not like this. For example, the very old gamble in the mine against the revolutionary, seeing who would get hanged, was definitely very good. Both the gambles about the L-file, the one about the crimes and the labyrinth were great. For me gambling also needs to have to do with cleverly explained tricks and such. Opponents that have clear goals and motivations.
To me it feels like the last great gamble was the television show. The radio tower and the ship were ok too.
But this arc...
Various people showing up and getting killed. HUGE prevalence of fighting. Time skips. Scenes that are not shown. Opponents that have been defeated off-screen. Really, you did not even show how Hal's faction was "defeated"? Most of the characters are just... unbalanced psychos who relish killing? I'm being told that Usogui has been clever, but I've not been showed how or why. Unlike the old gambles, there's no way for me to try to predict what is going to happen, or what the trick was, because it's all off-screen. The mind games are all of the: "Oh look, you thought I was going to do this but I did that" sort. But that too is all off-screen, not shown and impossible to predict. It feels like the characters are just posturing to look cool to the readers.
The only part of this arc I liked was Kaji's gamble.
I don't know, it's probably just my personal preference. But lately it feels like I'm reading a random violence manga. And I'm supposed to cheer for the main character because I'm being TOLD he's clever, and he looks cool. Not saying it's a bad manga or anything, just no longer what I came here for in the first place I think.