I won a poker tournament at a tavern and I was told “that’s not how you play poker”

So I’m playing at a bar (VFW) in Fayetteville NC that’s hosts the world tavern poker league and they host 2 turbo tournaments. I sign up for both and was giving a nice greeting when I got to the table. First tournament I got bad beat a couple of times, and ended up jamming with about 5bb left only to get snapped called by 74os hitting a straight on the turn. Oh well, I told everyone I’m going to get some ice cream because the next tournament wasn’t gonna start for another hour. Second tournament comes around and I start running on a heater. Everything was going great until I raised the pot. I was dealt pocket queens utg+2, blinds were 300/600. Lady in front of me limps so I bump it up to 2k. As soon as I threw my chips in, everyone goes, “woooah” as if that’s a move no one has ever seen before. Everyone calls so it’s a family pot. Flop is paired with 5s and an ace. I continued for 2k and everyone calls. Turn river are blanks and we ended up checking it down. I turn up my queens and the tavern director that was playing in the tournament goes, “you did that with queens?? That’s not the type of hand you raise with I expected you to at least have an ace”. The limper in front of me, an older lady, adds in her 2 cents and says, and I would have won that hand too I had trips!”, as she’s looking at me with a grimacing look. At this point I think to myself and say alright these people are complete donks and I can easily take this one down. I proceed to raise my range of hands in whatever position I’m in besides the big blind. Stealing pots here and there, continuing to build up my stack. It gets down to the last 4 players and this next pot gets interesting. Blinds are 5000/10,000 and I get dealt KJs and the lady I was talking about earlier limps. I raise to 30k, the 2 other players fold and action is back on her. She proceeds to say, “well I might as well call since I know you don’t have anything” I laugh it off and the flop gives me a nice flush draw all low cards. She checks and I bet about half the pot. She goes all-in with her last 7k and turns up junk but hitting a pair on the flop. I proceed to hit my flush on the river and she deals the rest of the hands with the last remaining 3 players. I knockout the other 2 pretty easily since I am the biggest stack at the table. After the win, I proceed to say nice playing with yall I had a lot of fun as this is my 2nd time playing at this place. The tavern director doesn’t reply as he is collecting the chips. The lady goes, “you know that’s not how you play poker, you just got lucky”. In hindsight, she is sorta right because I did run on a heater, but the way she worded it made it seem like I’m a dumbass beginner that didn’t just stack her multiple times in the tournament. I usually play 200 NL at my local casino and I wanted to take a break from there and play poker without spending money. It didn’t cross my mind that the playing field would be a lot softer and filled with a bunch of old school recreational players that don’t like the way these “young folks play nowadays” in the end, I had a lot of fun and will be going back this upcoming weekend.