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Originally Posted by onedollars
cliff notes: don't make under the table deals/bets with a stranger with no reason to uphold his end of the deal when you have no recourse if you get screwed
This.
Trusting complete strangers with thousands of dollars when the casino explicitly tells you that they will not back you up boggles my mind.
Also,
You may not know much about the business side of things, but your behaviour (that you described) is really shady from the perspective of the casino. You are handing money back and forth across the table, you are making backroomdeals and you involve yourself in shouting matches in the middle of the casino.
How do you think this comes across to the other customers in the casino? If I were that casino, I'd act against people acting like that too.
Obviously, the way they handled you is inconsistent, bad, stupid, etc. But you (or I) have no control over that.
To continue,
There is a way of dealing with immoral/irrational people. The wrong way is to start shouting matches with them. As dlpnyc21 said: there is nothing you can gain by that and much to lose. The right way to deal with them is A. by ignoring them. They cannot help your life so get them out. If you ignore them, hopefully they will ignore you. Or if they pose some kind of threat to you or general society: B. Work through the authority, which in this case is the casino. If he did indeed cheat, etc (of which we don't know the details), then you should take it up with the casino, who actually have the power to do something about it. You, on the other hand, have no power over it, because someone who cheats
doesn't care about other people and right or wrong.