# Bricker's betting gambit **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 4, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brickers-betting-gambit/667992 "2013-09-04T13:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 109
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brickers-betting-gambit/667992/109 "2013-09-05T13:24:19Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Yes, and it was earlier in the thread than the bit I quoted, I believe. And the parenthetical portion of that quote was extensively debated and absent from **Steve’s** later statement, the one you were responding to when you made the bet. > > That’s how things SHOULD work. You made a strong, persuasive case that the Ohio law had aspects that didn’t apply to Virginia, and Steve modified what he said accordingly. You won that part of the debate! > > So why bet him based on that earlier, stronger statement instead of on his later one which was, probably because of your points, weaker? He never repudiated his earlier post. He simply made some additional statements, without clarifying that his earlier statements were no longer supported – if, indeed, that’s what he meant. And i doubt it, because a year later, responding to my first “call out,” he said: > [@Steve MB - where are all the domestic violence victims???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-mb-where-are-all-the-domestic-violence-victims/421607/4): > > There is no “give or take a few weeks” in the terms. > > Nope; this thread is Bricker watching Eurydice vanish into the pit, knowing that it happened because of his own impatience after having made a deal with a tough but honest negotiator who is **not** giving him any do-overs. Note the total absence of any “Bricker, I modified my stance later,” corrections in that post. Is THAT how things should work? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brickers-betting-gambit/667992)._