Speaker: The Proposition Bets some unsuspecting customers in this local pub. The Proposition Bets circles you in, as it's a bet on an events or an outcome that you can believe can only go one way, and it always does go one way. The hustler's way. So watch and learn.
It's Paul's turn to get in the round and that mean he is picking targets for Proposition Bets. The Paul thinks he is sure of winning. This one is straightforward geometry. No slights of hung, or the trickery involved. This bet is for beer.
Paul: Here is the bet. What's the longest, the height from here to here or the rim of the glass from here to here?
Speaker: So, what's the longest, the circumference or the height? It seems a bit close to call that the three friends variedly call to the height, being a greater distance than the circumference. Paul raptures of the bet. For two beers it is the combined height of the beer glass, and then ashtray versus the distance around the rim.
Sticking with the height, as it seems sure a bet. Paul won't let it rest there, he seems to have got caught up in the game, as he raises the height of the game, with three beers and three shots, with the height now made up of the beer glass. Paul's mobile phone and ashtray and the box of matches.
Paul: So three beers and three shots. If I can prove to you the fact, this is bigger than that.
Speaker: Paul seems to have lost the plot, and stakes up another ashtray making the combined height up to two ashtrays, a mobile phone, a box of matches and the beer glass. Paul is prized if the friends are wrong about the height being the longer dimension, will be three beers, three shots, and free about the crisps.
Paul: Has to be bigger? Three beers, three shots and three packs of crisps.
Speaker: For the three friends, is a sure bet that the height is greater than the circumference. So it's time for Paul to prove otherwise with the end of a paper napkin, and remember there is no trickery here.
Paul: Exactly. Make sure that you don't cheat or anything. I'll get it nice and tight, mark exactly the point where it meets.
Speaker: This is all about board, this bet is based on geometry and even Paul can make a mistake in his calculations. So it wasn't the height that was the longest. It was the distance around the rim of the glass.
Paul: Three beers, three shots and three packs of crisps.
Speaker: Paul calls in his winnings, for the mathematically minded, the standard beer glass is 15 centimeters tall, and the distance around the rim is about 27-and-a-half centimeters. All you have to do to win this bet, is to remember to keep your pile stacked to less then twice the heights of the beer glass.
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