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who could ONLY guess a dollar amount on what he won at the end?

posted 15 years ago by georgevida
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I KNOW THIS WILL BE HARD FOR PEOPLE TO DO, BUT CAN ANYONE GIVE ME JUST A DOLLAR AMOUNT ON WHAT THEY THINK EDDIE WON AT THE END?

NO COMMENTS OR ANYTHING ELSE PLEASE JUST GIVE ME A DOLLAR AMOUNT ON WHAT EVERYONE GUESSES HE WON?

FOR 10 LONG YEARS I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTIONS AND NO ONE WILL EVER SAY IT?

EVERYONE JUST WANTS TO GO OFF SUBJECT AND ADD NONSENCE

MY GUESS WOULD BE 10'S OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS SUCH AS $50,000 ??

I'M NOT TRYING TO BE RUDE, BUT I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED & LIKE I SAID NO ON WILL EVER ANSWER

[–] D_vd_B 15 years ago

At least enough to by some working capslock keys!

[–] AlWilliams-2 13 years ago

The author of the novel Walter Tevis says Eddie won $15,000 from Fats that last match. Bert demanded $4,500 of it.

[–] crt-strucl-2 11 years ago

Only 15k? That seems little, I thought it would be at least 30k. Fats didn't quit when he was down 18k the first time. So does it mean he simply realised that Eddie has no more weaknesses and couldn't be beat?

[–] rekem 11 years ago

Yes. The writing was on the wall. He clearly tries to shake Eddie in that match, but to no avail. Eddie's talented enough to beat Fats, and if he's able to stay focused on that it was no contest. Eddie was talented enough the first time around as well, but his lack of "character" as Burt puts it, trips him up. As Eddie tells Burt in the second match, "I sure got character now." Once all of Fats's tricks failed, and he'd given Eddie his best game, only to fall well behind, it was time to quit.