Should Proteus pay KuhaN?

[PhoenixScorpion]

In what alternate universe do you live in where you make a bet and need some neutral person to handle the money?

If you make a bet and welch you're a giant douche, Someone said I'll bet $100 and someone else agreed, its a damn bet. If you lose pay up. You don't need a contract and an escrow/title company in order to enact a bet.

flogger, as much as I have respect and love for you , what alternate universe do you live in where people let you bet without placing money first? Anyone who has actually gambled for MONEY, and not just been messing about with friends having fun knows this is the way gambling and a bet works. To claim otherwise is folly and childish. You either put up the money or shut up, bets are not made and real until money is out and on the table. Until then is nothing more than people running their mouths. This is age old in gambling precisely because of these types of disputes and disagreements, but pretty common knowledge to those who actually make wagers with other real gamblers.

As far as the stooges here trying to refer to a gentleman's wager, perhaps you should actually know what your talking about before you go jumping on the bandwagon being an internet troll.

Gentlemen's bet

A variation on the gentlemen's agreement is the gentlemen's bet, wherein there is nothing to win or lose through the bet, other than the honor of winning and shame of losing.

Gentleman's bets are not made with MONEY, they are simply wagers based on prestige and honor. Both of which are sorely lacking from a majority of the trolls here.

Now had Proteus made a wager based on some act of humiliating himself, lets say agreeing to delete his province, go VM for rest of age, or ,posting something, etc that was non-monetary then KuhaN and most of the trolls here would be justified in their position. Since this is not the case and obviously the majority here have never gambled for real with people they do not know and only as informal exchanges with their friends, then stop crying and learn how to place a bet like a man instead of a little boy. Funny KuhaN sure wasn't here begging for a mediator or third-party and only waited until he was assured of winning to pursue it. Highly suspicious when he had every opportunity and been more than enough people actively monitoring this thread to have cemented the bet with a third party. Next time either put up or shut up and stop crying like a baby. Typical Utopian behavior.