How common are locals like this?
Hey yall, I recently moved from a large metro politan area that had plenty of lgs to choose from, and in most of them, topping was always "profitable", this is my only experience of going to locals. I recently moved to a more suburban area that only has 1 lgs, and I went for the first time today. Entry free was 10$ (estimate, I'm not from the US) and I was hoping to at least get some CORI. I went 3-0 (store always stops after 3 rounds so they can close shop) and my prizing was 1 pack of RA04, 1 ots 29 and 2 ots 28. Some of the other prizing was the same ots packs but with Maze of Muertos or Crossover Breakers instead. I felt like we were just getting leftover stock as prizing...
I asked another player if it's always like that and he told me yeah and 1 pack of RA04 is 10$ so it's pretty good. This store had 20 players and nobody seemed to mind.
Maybe I'm spoiled but at my previous city topping would always get you a box or at least an amount of packs of the most recent set that would costs more than entry. Am I looking at the hobby the wrong way? Are yall's locals similar to mine's?