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Old 03-04-2007, 03:54 AM
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Default OT - settle a bet

I made a bet a while back with someone that the first person to be playing 10/20 NL would owe the other person $500. This was meant as a consolation prize and just to add a little fun/competition to our cash quest. We set out bankroll rules to follow, including withdrawals, and were allowed to play lower, but not higher.

Some time went by, and we both suffer from some combination of not being great or not being lucky so at this point neither of us are close based on the rules.

Tonight after a couple of ridiculous beats by freakin morans in 2/4 I had the thought that I'm sick of poker and should tilt up and either win big or quit. I've had that thought before, as I'm sure most of us have, but have never acted on it. This time I looked at the 10/25 game and saw that I've played with 2 out of the 3 people and one of them was bad. Then the one that wasn't bad left.

No real trip report on the game. I played 120 hands and won $721. Over those hands I played with 6 different players and a couple of them might have been good and a couple of them sucked very badly. I don't want to encourage people to play over their rolls, but I don't think it's that rare for people to tilt up, and unlike me, many of them may not be even trying to play their A game.

There is no bad blood in this decision. The guy I'm betting with says "i mean i think the context of the bet was whoever got to 10/20 as in properly rolled/ beating the game." I replied "I'm going to put it to a vote I think. You shouldn't be more likely to get welshed on just because you are nice." There will be no hard feelings between us either way.

The vote goes without a poll because I'm going to say you need 500 posts to qualifiy for a vote. I don't want this determined by strangers and/or gimmick accts.

I can't find the exact terms of the bet. They are on some backup CD and one of my backup CDs is blank so I don't know if I can find them.

You should either respond "pay" or "don't pay."

After responding pay or don't pay there is an additional choice. This choice will be non-binding, so you should repond to the first choice regardless.

"Play 10/25 until busto or robusto and pay if robusto, not if busto"

The main reason I'm posting this is because I'm kinda hoping you pick the last option. This would only be busto for this site. I have a little over $4k on it. I took all but $600 off line when party kicked me off and then took more off when neteller was in trouble, and this isn't really a huge part of my roll although I'm not sure if I'll reload. I'd probably just play some lower stakes on stars where I have some money.

And I thought I was the responsible one.

edit: Obviously the other reason I posted this is that I wanted to brag about playing 10/25.
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