Thank you all that read the original and follow up posts.
The game was Pokemo (not a lot of skill needed to play), the room was not full (either by room capacity or max number of players), we've played at a friends house once with only four of us. She did talk to the leader, whom did not help. It's the kind of game that one person from two or three tables of six would have worked. My wife does NOT feel entitled to anything, she and her friend just wanted something to do on a Friday night and it sounded like fun. BTW, I doubt she'll go back, she obliviously was not welcome and she doesn't to play with unfriendly people.
There too many other clubs that welcome new people (all that I've been to so far in the past year we have lived here full time). Some clubs do have room limits, Bunco, for example can have one table of two, one table of three (a "ghost" makes up the fourth person) and rest with tables of four. But there is a fire limit number of people in the room. During peak times you have to get there early and stand in line, first come first served no "saveies".
Petunque at the Paradise outside courts is another. We have 6 courts and play with 3 to a side, but in the peak season we split the courts in have to accommodate the most people we can (even to the point we may have 4 to a team, but that makes playing very difficult and somewhat dangerous. The teams are picked at random to avoid "clicks". And all residents and quests (with ID) are welcome.
So my point is that most clubs seam to go out of their way to accept new people and to make it fair.
I'm the one that started this thread to see what others have found with clubs here in TV.
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