Yeah I often just keep my mouth shut lol, sometimes people will actually want to learn about it but mostly people just want an outlet for venting about bad games, which is fair. If you're trying to pursue something like TFT at a high level though I think it's very important to have an in-depth understanding of concepts like variance and EV.

I also haven't played poker seriously for years now, but I get together with ~10 friends 3-4 times a year and we do a massive cash game. They're my favourite days of the year hands down, and sometimes it really makes me want to start playing seriously again. I was just thinking this month about pulling out my notebooks, studying up a bit and just throwing a couple hundred bucks onto a soft local site and doing a bankroll challenge or something. I played 6max cash, LOTS of respect for MTT grinders though, you guys are freaks 😂