Once again Lou laid out the terms last time and didn't give in on hardly anything.John could ask for weight or anything else but it certainly wouldn't mean it was reasonable or to be taken seriously. If two guys who claim similar skill and high runs play a short set with a relatively close score, and afterwards the loser still claims that he is the better player who should have won but just dogged it on a fluke and will win the next time, I don't think anybody would think that weight was in line for the next match up and that is exactly the case here.
So the guy that gave in on everything last time should be the one to give in on everything this time too? I don't think anybody who isn't biased sees it that way unless weight were in order and that just isn't the case here based on a single short set that wasn't a blow out. The way it works is a give and take. You picked last time, I pick this time. You picked this, I pick that.
As far as it not mattering to Lou much financially this time, that is assuming he doesn't get more of his own action than last time. But even if he doesn't, for some guys (admittedly very few) it matters even more that they win for and protect the investment of their backer than if it were their own money. I could see Lou possibly being one of those guys. And for some people the pride is more important than the money (although at this level of money again it is probably very few). I don't propose to know exactly how much this match would matter to Lou and why, but I do know it it is possible for it to still matter a lot even with a backer, and possibly even more than it does to the guy betting his own in some cases.
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