Ugh, my friend is such a purist when it comes to gambling.

@sarabee1995 What I can't imagine is getting upset over winning. Had he lost but argued over the rules saying that he should have won, it'd be nitpicky and annoying but like alright fine, everyone wants to win and if you feel the rules dictate that you won the game, I get it. But he was arguing that he [i]lost.[/i] Who the fuck wins a game, then gets upset and insists they lost?

Well, I guess it does happen. Horace Wagner did it in the Olympics. They awarded him a gold medal in the snowboarding big air competition but he insisted he made a mistake that should have cost him enough points for the silver medalist to actually win.

@BlueMetalChick I know nothing about Horace, but I was going to say I completely understand your friend's position (regarding the rules, not the $16).

I'm competitive. Very competitive. Sometimes to a fault. But I very much want to win fair and square (by the rules).

Back home in my taekwondo studio, the self reporting of penalty points while sparring was a big thing. Basically, when you throw a punch or a kick, no one has a better perspective than you on where it lands. You know if you hit an area that is forbidden and should result in point deductions.

There is no such mechanism in actual competition, but our master expected us to be honorable and inform the judges of such mistakes if they did not catch us.

Winning is important, but not more so than honor.

@sarabee1995 @BlueMetalChick But in this case didn't he just disagree with the rules, you didn't say he broke the rules? So this is different.

@KiwiBird My understanding was that he argued that under the rules they should not have declared him the winner.

@BlueMetalChick Do I understand this incorrectly?

@sarabee1995 Nope, you got it correctly.

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