how big a scumbag is my friend? you decide
 

Saturday 4 friends are golfing. Me and one of the others are betting on every hole. We get to the 18th hole which was a par 5 600 yeard hole and the guy i was betting with offers a side bet to a 3rd friend that I would win the hole. The conversation went like this.

Friend 1: Yo you want a sidebet that greenmachine will win this hole for 2 bucks

Friend 2: Yeah sure

So we play the hole and we wind up in a tie. As we are settling up on all our wagers friend 1 says to friend 2 you owe me 2 bucks. Friend 2 says what do you mean it was a tie. Friend 2 says no you had Greenmachine to win, he didnt win it was a tie. Now clearly the way the bet was offered and went down, and based on any other bet any of us has made together, if it was a tie is should be a chop. So all 3 other people immidiatly tell him hes wrong and its an angle shoot, but friend 1 continues to insist that he wins the bet.

Now clearly the 2 dollars here is a trivial amount of money, so friend number 2 is basically liek is 2 dollars worth being a scumbag. Friend 1 continues to insist that he is right, and so friend 1 pays him, but we are all furious with this guy who we have been friends with since high school.

So OOT how big of a scumbag angle shooter is our friend?

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if your going to get a doner kebab, is he the kinda guy who doesnt want vegetables, becuase then he has more meat, and more meat is more value for your money?

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You can learn a lot about people by gambling with them.

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what is even being said here? a tie is not a win. is he trying to argue that both guys "won"?

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Daryn,

He is arguing that friend 2 took a bet that Greenmachine WINS the 18th hole. it was a tie therefore Greenmachine didnt win. SO by the pure wording I guess hes right, but there was never any mention of a tie. Plus if he would win if its a tie, he would have had to give odds as A tie is the most likely result.

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How is he not right? That you are experts at taking on bets that have crappy odds for you is not his fault.

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He won the bet. What's the problem. You guys are the ones getting your panties twisted up about $2. I think you guys are more douchey for trying to welsh on it than he is for insisting he's right.

- C -

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So he bet on himself against you that he'd win the hole

He bet against himself in the side bet


If he bet the same amounts with each of you, this seems pretty ingenious, the only thing in it for him is the possibility of a tie in which he profits.

Kinda sounds a lot like the way casinos operate, after I think about it a bit as well

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Actually I agree with the friend. He took a sidebet on GM to win. Don't you assume that the person he made the bet with is taking the opposite player to win for $2? Maybe the person accepting it should have said, "Okay you get GM to win for $2, I get the other player plus a tie." I think that it is assumed that for a tie you would void the bet.

Oh, and it's $2. Seriously.