[DrewDevil]

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i can't believe this thread is happening on a gambling site.

OP: post this in sports betting forum here and see what they say.

(spoiler: they'll tell you that the person who demanded his money was correct)

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Sure, if I bet the No on "Will the AL win the all-star game" at Bodog and it ended in a tie, I'd be looking to get paid. If I made an off-the-cuff bet with a friend for $2 for which it was pretty damn clear that a tie was a push, I wouldn't be demanding to be paid $2, even though technically I may have won the bet.

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i think baseball is a bad example because ties "aren't possible"

in golf match play/skins ties are common and are totally accepted as being different from winning the hole.

i dunno, if i was golfing and I said "i bet X doesn't win this hole" i would mean "halve or lose"

if you said "there's between 40 and 50 jellybeans in the jar" and there were actually 50 i could see there being an argument. but the fact that in golf win/halve/lose are three common and distinct outcomes make this pretty clear cut in my eyes.

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the all star game ended in a tie a few years ago.

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This is probably the nittiest post in the history of the interweb. DUCY?

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my point was that i would gladly take a win from a sportsbook on a technicality, but would not do so from a friend. i now understand what mason was saying about a tie being commonplace in golf, as opposed to in my example (though that was really irrelevant to the point i was trying to make -- albeit rather poorly, apparently).

why people feel the need to take uncalled for jabs at other posters in what are otherwise civil threads is beyond me. it is quite obvious i wasn't being nitty and merely missed the quotes around "aren't possible".

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I'm making a jab at your post, not you, and I believe it was totally called for.

There have been millions of professional baseball games played since the game was invented in 1849, and probably 2 or 3, MAX, that have ended in a tie. That is why your post was superbly nitty.