A crazy holiday poker story and an ethical question (low content)

[whitelime]

The thing is, I never asked for it back or even said one thing after the bad beat.

[excession]

Yep ^^ what he said - if you accept a gift from someone then that does place you in some level of 'moral debt' to them - here the only way to repay that is to send him back the $1200.

After all it's Xmas - don't be a Scrooge [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

The better alternative of course would have been to refuse the gift and to have cleaned him out legitimately.

Now I don't see any other ethical course, especially as the guy seems to need the $$ far more than you .

[Equal]

[ QUOTE ]
send him back his equity share of the bad beat

[/ QUOTE ]

[img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[ggbman]

I would send him the money back. I also a "good karma" nit. You are not obligated to do so, but then again, i dont think accepting it in the first place is completley kosher, we both know you wouldnt give someone back their money because you put a beat on them. I dunno, thats a weird [censored] story, but if you kept the money i dont think it's immoral.

[HoldEmKillah]

Send it back. You should have done so right after he transferred it in the first place.

[Voltron87]

[ QUOTE ]
You should have done so right after he transferred it in the first place.

[/ QUOTE ]

uh, why?

[Rotating Rabbit]

whatever u do, dont take advice on this board over what you would yourself otherwise do, thats lame

[SmileyEH]

I'd send the 1200 back then win it from him (minus rake).

-SmileyEH

[BobboFitos]

hmm, did a fyp thinking you were sponger. now it was uncalledfor. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[octop]

Keep it. The only reason to possibly give it back is if you think you can m ake a lot more from this guy in the future because of it. If any of you want to transfer me money feel free to, Ill keep it all.