No news is bad news…
A couple of people have asked about the situation with Roy Winston and why I took the blog post about him welching on our $5k POY prop bet last year. They naturally assumed that we had resolved the issue. We haven’t.
The reason I took the blog post down was because after reading some feedback in the forums, I realized that I came off sounding like a self-righteous ass. That’s why I deleted the post. It wasn’t because Roy finally did the right thing. No, Roy Winston still hasn’t paid me the $5k he owes from our bet from last year.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here it is in a sentence: Roy Winston and I made a prop bet for $5k in 2008 on who would finish higher in the Cardplayer POY race, and when I won he flat welched on the bet. The last time I talked to him about it, his response was a simple “fuck you.”
He writes a pretty regular blog for Cardplayer. Maybe he’ll weigh in here and explain why he shouldn’t have to pay the bets he loses… I’m thinking he’ll just keep ignoring it, though, and instead of defending his reputation in the poker world, as any wrongly-accused person would, he’ll just keep writing lame posts about the risks you take in playing private home games and about how much he can’t stand cigarettes. What a tool.
It just goes to show one of the big risks in making prop bets. Even if you are pretty sure you’re an overwhelming favorite to win your bet (as I was in this case), you are taking way the worst of it if there’s a healthy chance you won’t get paid.
Something that Johnny Hughes (one of my favorites of the old guard players) wrote really stuck with me :
It does not matter why you welch.
It does not matter how much you welch for.
If you welch, you are a welcher, the lowest scum in gambling.”
