It is always ... frustrating ... when the people who know nothing about poker do better than you, especially when you know you know more.
Similar to your mom-in-FL story, my grandmother and her friends have a fairly regular game that they play of "poker" (and I use quotes since they play every poker game imaginable, half the deck is wild, etc etc) and my grandma invited me to play with them in their "big" monthly game, which meant a few tables of 5/10--
--that's 5-cents, 10-cents, in case you were wondering.
I lost OVER 8 big bets on the session -- 85 cents -- even though I thought I was playing fairly well against her 80- and 90-year-old friends.
Sometimes ... the change of scenery isn't profitable. Sometimes, it is. But I WILL get those bets back next time, grandma, I swear.
Barron Vangor Toth
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