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OT - Poker Ethics?
Posted By: BenF In Response To: OT - Poker Ethics? (Stick)
Date: Monday, 24 October 2011, at 4:48 a.m.
This may seem off topic but I hope it helps demonstrate a point. I hit a cat on my way home tonight. I was driving 45 on a dirt road and had no chance to stop other then putting my car in the ditch. I hit this cat hard and figured it was dead but I went back, knocked on the door of the house it was heading towards, apologized, told them I lived around the corner and told them my name. Did I have anything to gain by not going back? Absolutely, not only the embarrassment but also if this cat was not fatally injured and the owners wanted me to go with them to the emergency vet I could end up footing the bill. I woke these people up at 10:30pm for them to find out that their pet, that they loved, was suffering. It would have been just as easy to let them find the cat having passed in the morning so the wouldn't worry all night about it. But that is not the kind of person I am. I make the hard choices to be straight with people. I don't try to get the cheap wins, my pride will never be more important then my integrity. I would never sit at a backgammon board and tell my opponent I am sure it is a pass when I do not know, or act impatient as if they are stupid for not having passed already. I might occasionally get excited about a great sequence and inadvertently cause my opponent to feel some ill feelings but if you ever find me bitching and moaning over the board about how terrible my opponent played their roll and how lucky they are I beg you to kick me in the gut. The fact is, it won't happen because I chose to compete as a way of having have fun with others, not to prove how great I am or to beat my opponents. I don't care whether or not I am breaking the rules, I care whether or not people are going to walk away saying how classy I am.
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