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Hey... Double or Nothing

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Yo let us know which movie is going to be the good movie and it will help me decide if I want to subscribe!

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aaronrmallie.odpa@gmail.com

Hey doesn't say double or nothing. He doubles the bet... meaning he bets 2 million not 1 million. So if he lost he would be down 3 million but if he won, he would win 1 million...

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alex.stahl@gmail.com

yup.

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Will Smith’s character doesn’t say "double or nothing" in those words. He says something more like: “Let’s make one last bet... you pick any player on the field. If she can guess who it is, we win it all back.” He proposes to recoup all the money he’s lost—which, by then, is $1.2 million. But here’s the kicker: He says “double the stakes”, meaning he’s betting another $1.2 million on top of what he’s already lost. So now: If he loses the bet, he's out $2.4 million total. If he wins, he gets $1.2 million from the mark, and gets back the $1.2 million he just bet, putting him net positive $1.2 million. So it’s not a clean “double or nothing” where you’re just trying to break even. It’s more like: “I just lost $1.2M. I’ll bet another $1.2M right now to try to win back my losses and walk away with your $1.2M.” Even that explanation is just what’s being said in the fiction of the bet. From a con man perspective (which is what this scene is really about): The earlier $1.2M “loss” was never real. The final bet is the only real transaction. The mark thinks he's up $1.2M and is about to win another $1.2M, so he agrees to the absurd bet. When he loses, he hands over $1.2M in real money to Nicky and Jess. Nicky walks away +$1.2M, not zero.

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Michael Bromley

My favourite (and first) wasn't even said that way, Wang says to Jack Burton "nothing or double, this knife cuts this bottle in half". If you know, you know

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Michael Bromley

My favourite (and first) wasn't even said that way, Wang says to Jack Burton "nothing or double, this knife cuts this bottle in half". If you know, you know

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