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"If the amount of money in the pot under discussion were significant (or life changing) to you would your answer remain the same ?

If you answered "no" to any of these questions your opinion should not be counted as valid."

This one I found interesting. For the lottery pool that I occasionally run, I tell all of the new members about my "8-figure integrity rule." What it boils down to is this:
If I'm buying tickets for you, and for myself, and you don't know which tickets are yours before the drawing.... then you COULD get your winning ticket from me if the prize is in the low-seven figures.

However, if it's eight-figures or more, there's no way in HELL that you're ending up with the winning ticket that you don't know about. It's too much security for my family (specifically, children) and I know I won't be able to make myself hand it over... which is why I run my pool so anally, BTW.

So, I have some doubts about your presumed stance that extreme life-changing amounts invalidate ethics stances. You are probably technically correct, but I challenge you to pass the $100M test. :P

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I think somewhere we got off track. I guess I never paid attention to the "ethics" part of the headline...Any case, I think every single one of us agrees that the ethical thing to do, ALWAYS (home game, casino game, poker club game, friends, foes, our mothers), is to point out the full house. The next discussion seems to evolve, or devolve some would say, into how much would it take for you to do what you know is wrong. For some, no amount of money (they say) would allow them to do the wrong thing. For the rest, there is some figure that would let them say "well, it is for $xxx" and then they reason it out however they want, ie "the player should have known", "its the dealer's job at a casino", "its a lot of money". I am of the opinion that everyone has a price, but for most that price is so high that they don't think it exists.

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This post was well-written.

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Tony,
OP asks a question about do we point this out, seemed more like a poll to me so I answered. In come the moral police to insult those of us with less morality.



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So?

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SO, I am not seeing where defending my point-of-view makes me a moron.

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As a volunteer member of the moral police, I would not have called you a moron. On the other, I did say previously that anyone who doesn't give their opponent the pot is a cheat and a douchebag.

Is that better?

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Your post is contradictory. You say this friend this and that friend that. You don't have any friends because you don't treat friends this way. Now you can belabor this point and give this and that sceanrio and so on, but it's all bs. If you knew what it was to be a friend you would not have made this post

No joking. I feel sorry for you, Man.