• Your 'friend' didn't build the pot, he killed your action with the OOP shove.
  
  
• Your 'friend' didn't shove to build the pot, he shoved to take down the pot with top pair and a flush draw thinking he either had the best hand or lots of outs if he was behind.
  
  
• Your 'friend' had no idea what you had, when he shoved into a King high flop. All he knew was that you had raised pre-flop and that you are a tight player. I imagine you could just as easily have raised pre-flop with QQ or JJ

Assuming you didn't have the Ace of diamonds, your 'friend' was in fact a marginal favourite to win the hand after the flop. No way he would have split it with you if he had hit one of his outs, or if you had folded to his shove.

It looks very much like your 'friend' lost a flip but wants half the money after killing your action, and that makes him a douche. As Klez said earlier, you're much better off finding out your friend is a lying prick now that when it is over something much bigger as business partners.

This person is not your friend.

Yes. You play your buddies the same way you play anybody else: to win.

He is freerolling you. He's getting you to soft-play him, while playing aggressively against you. Then when he loses, he tries to get you to give him a refund.

This person is not your friend.

Find better friends.

Not tough at all. He got in as a favorite, and he's trying to scam you.

This person is not your friend.

This is a very easy decision: find better friends.

Exactly.

He doesn't need him to get angry at a refusal to allow him to take advantage, in order to reconsider the benefit of being friendly with a scam artist.

This person is not his friend.

This person is not his friend.

Yes, exactly.

Grrr34, this person is not your friend. Find better friends.

You don't want to strain your relationship with him, so best to talk about it with him and sort it out. You know the best approach and how to talk to him because you know him best.
We can't fully understand your relationship with him, we can just see this is a bad deal for you.

This is definitely true, however pfapfap has some very valid points...

Keep in mind:
1) He tells you he shoved the flop to build the pot for you. This is obviously not true, so he has no issues lying to your face for his own benefit
2) He tells you, based upon lie in 1), that you need to give him money. This shows that he loses no sleep scamming money from a "friend".
3) Based upon 1) and 2) he appears to believe you are a sucker and can be talked into anything.

Your business venture with your friend is none of our business however make sure you are not being taken for a sucker there too. I hope this is not the case and this was just a misunderstanding.

Poker is such an interesting game, as you meet all sorts of fun people and want to make friends. However as many of those friends are looking to scam/cheat you as they are to make friends, and it's very difficult to know who is who.

"Luckily" in this case, OP, it's pretty obvious what side of things your friend is working toward.

I think most people in this thread are being way too generous. Dude is a scumbag and you should just stop being friends with him without trying to pacify him.

Well at first I was thinking about how you can repair this friendship, but after rereading your post again. I am not sure you can. I think the above posts are mostly correct although some are a little over the top. You had no prior agreement. You won the pot fair and square. You must tell him so. You must also tell him you will never agree to cooperate at the poker table. You must make this clear. It will be along time before you can trust him. I think you should be concerned with any joint ventures with him. For a while I would not even sit at the same table with him. When he said:
I would have just laughed at him and told him of course you were trying to take the put. And I would remind him that you said no to such collusion.

if i was your friend and i won that hand

id give him his 200 back and keep the ??? profit i made if i beat my buddys pocket aces

Yeah, I didn't look at the hand close enough & totally missed the flush draw.


--klez

What a scumbag....dude you need to put a cease on you and his business partnership IMMEDIATELY. That guy is lying to you and trying to take advantage of you. He was not trying to build a pot to help you out, he was trying to win that pot, suck out on you and take your money. Point blank. Don't be gullible, that dude is not your friend...he is a con artist. How long have you known him? Where did you meet him? How well do you know him? Think about it. Scam artists will go above and beyond to make friends with people, earn their trust over the course of years only to be able to screw them down the road.

Don't ever compromise your own integrity for the sake of a so called friend. Any REAL friend would never ask you to do that. Cut ties with that guy or the day will come where you really, REALLY wish you had.

It's a tough situation for you because your buddy is a bit of a scum bag in general and not much of a buddy to you specifically. I agree with your read on the situation (which I bolded), and I believe it goes even further. He also made that play with the extra safety net of trying to guilt you into splitting the pot with him if it didn't go his way. In case you can't tell, I'm not impressed with your buddy.

Also, you didn't get involved with him. He got involved with you. What are you supposed to do, open fold your AA because your buddy might call you in his straddle? Also, your so called buddy may well have driven money OUT of the pot with his shove into the field from UTG.

Make it clear to him that you are NOT down with cheating at the table and he needs to factor that into his decisions in the future.

Write this guy out of your life as quickly and inexpensively as possible. This may be easy, or may be hard, depending upon the exact nature of your partnership with him, and whatever other factors might be involved. But this guy will almost certainly hurt you in the future, and possibly bankrupt you, so lose him fast.

Best wishes, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

I would second this. The thing that concerns me about this situation is not so much the poker, but that OP says he's in business with this guy. Huge downside here; "friend" has already demonstrated that he's willing to cheat others and OP. .
This is no joke. Time to disengage.

I've played at stakes that mattered to both of us against a good friend. It's much more fun to try to beat each other's brains in.

I agree with what everybody who posted before me said.

But I would to add a bit of advice if something similar comes up in the future.

Don't use the punishment as a justification for not doing it. Don't they "we could be banned for doing it", just say "I don't cheat!".

The kind of person who brings up something like this will frequently think that you a secretly ok with it but are afraid of being caught.