It can be fun and exhiliarating if your on a good table and things are cooking. It is pretty hard to really take the social aspect out and as you say make the long drive to sit in a corner working the martingale on a roulette table.
Or similiarly playing alone in a high stakes room or just playing alone all the time. I hated playing alone with just me and a dealer on reg stakes. Seems you always lose plus it is more ackward to get up right away when you can smell a hot, cocky dealer who immediately rubs you wrong or is real cranky and emotionless which is even worse.
I liked getting on a hot table. At least then you had fun and maybe walk out a winner too.
