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Old 09-03-2005, 09:38 PM
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Default Interesting Article about El Cap and the a side bet about the TLB race

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Old 09-03-2005, 10:02 PM
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Default Re: Interesting Article about El Cap and the a side bet about the TLB

So it sounds like you have El Capo with 6 players all playing the same account vs JJ (who I assume plays by himself) vs Gigabet (who also seems to play by himself). Some bet. Sounds like a fools bet to me.
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Old 09-03-2005, 10:10 PM
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Interesting. Didn't know that Colson and Schaefer were in the action as well.
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Old 09-03-2005, 10:11 PM
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Default Re: Interesting Article about El Cap and the a side bet about the TLB

yea its intersting but i dont think bigslick had any idea el capitano account was gonna get pretty much hijacked for the rest of the month.

edit- so the team was
thor
unknown
t soprano
noah
colson
schaefer

did i get it right lol?
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Old 09-03-2005, 10:18 PM
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Default Re: Interesting Article about El Cap and the a side bet about the TLB

I also thought that Marcel Luske and Noah Boeken play under El Capitano.
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Old 09-03-2005, 10:25 PM
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BigSlick got HOSED!!! Basically this was all just a big setup to get 100K out of BS.
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Old 09-03-2005, 10:50 PM
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Default Re: Interesting Article about El Cap and the a side bet about the TLB

Really, El Cap wasn't about battling anyone. The bet had nothing to do with El Cap or JJ winning TLB. It had everything to do with Giga not winning. The whole El Cap thing was just to cover our bases in case JJ fell off and Giga went on a run. Clearly it elevated the level of competition and JJ really stepped up huge. Believe it or not I was rooting hard for him to pull it off and I'm really glad that he did it. Mad props, sir.

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Old 09-03-2005, 10:54 PM
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I can't say for sure since I didn't originate the bet but I don't think Big Slick got set up at all. I think he learned why you don't make a 100K bet without covering all of your bases first. AND, it's not like El Cap won TLB and Giga came in 2nd. JJ kicked butt and BigSlick's horse was down around 10th. How did BigSlick get HOSED?

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Old 09-03-2005, 11:00 PM
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I will say that this pretty much makes PS TLB a complete joke. Obviously it wasn't against the rules so no big deal from that standpoint. But the rules should probably be changed although I'm sure it would be difficult to enforce. But it's pretty tough to learn how to play against someone if the person playing changes. And I also read another situation where El Cap was taken advantage of allowing Boeken to essentially have two chanced to play in the Sunday tourney.
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Old 09-03-2005, 11:03 PM
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What do you call it when you get roped into a bet for 100K when you were making a bravado offfer of 1K while drinking? What do you call it when an older more experienced gambler tricks a young kid into taking a bad bet at horrible odds especially when the young kid doesn't understand all the rules? Absolutely he got hosed. That he entered into the bet of his own free (drunken) will is accepted. That the El Capo group didn't cheat is understood. But clearly they took advantage of him. He got hosed.

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