Walter Montego: In response to your response to my post...

You see there in lies the fun and interesting part. You didn't know, and no one else knew if I was telling the truth! Thats what made it interesting. Now if everyone knew I was a pathological liar, then no one would have bet 1 or 2 or 10. Honestly Bry and Pedro are pretty good players at this pond thing and thats why they probably took the chance. It is after all just a game and if they were wrong, they just fall in the pond... so what?? It was a risk they took and they were pretty smart about it I think...

And so I wasn't in it to win! That is obvious, if I was, I wouldn't have bet just 1. Now why didn't I care about winning? Like I said I play for fun and do not get caught up in ratings... I had more fun experimenting on this game then just putting in another bid...

Sorry you don't see my point and I'm sorry you got the short end of it... but what was I supossed to do, look up everyone's number of games they played in and then think "oh geez, this person doesn't have enough experience in this game"... come on.... thats just silly. In any case it doesn't matter if you only had little experience, because I had never done that before and Bry and Pedro had no reason to believe me more than you!

For those people that aren't all sour about this I think its a fascinating result. Bry bids two absolutely believing me that I will bid 1, which I think may have been too trusting. Pedro bids 10! Honestly I didn't see that happening, but he is two steps ahead of me and Bry and hedges his bet thinking that if I am bluffing and I do bid 3,4 or even 5, he is covered! Nice move if you ask me... he is also covered in the sense that he almost certainly believes there is someone else probably going to trust me and that if someone does bet 2 and I bet the normal range of whatever (3,000 or so) then he is still covered in the sense that someone else will fall in the pond...

This makes for so many possible outcomes and gets into stratgic psychology... very interesting! Which was what I was shooting for. Sorry if I hurt your feelings Montego...