Friends and Foes
I began playing poker 12 years ago - when I was well into my retirement years. Yes, I am a very old guy. One day, while visiting a friend, he said he was starting up a small-stakes, fixed limit home game every second week. I wanted something different in my life. It was a small group of his FRIENDS. We are still friends, despite the fact that we are always trying to take each other's money!! Since the stakes are small, a friend can enjoy four hours of friendship and win or lose very little money - give or take a hundred dollars or so.
When I play at casinos, I am not a regular, so most players do not remember me - but I remember many of them. There are lots of friends, or at least acquaintances, in the smaller casino poker rooms. Regardless of whether or not they are regulars, I always treat them with the same respect and courtesy that I would like to be treated.