Presumably Nick wouldn’t have tried to split with you, because he’d learned about your personality earlier in the game or was able to gauge your responses as he discussed his certain intent to steal. Nick’s ploy was especially good because it put Ibrahim in an unexpected situation where it’s a lot hard to appear genuine while simultaneously thinking through optimal strategy, thus giving Nick unusually reliable information about whether he could expect Ibrahim to actually try to split or not.
I’m not sufficiently impressed with Nick’s decision making that’d I’d be willing to assume he would be able to distinguish my response from Ibrahim’s to any remarkable degree. It’s possible that he could, in which case he gets points for incidentally being good at reading people but loses points because he still gets no money.
The best that can be said for the gambit is that it made good television.
I’m not sufficiently impressed with Nick’s decision making that’d I’d be willing to assume he would be able to distinguish my response from Ibrahim’s to any remarkable degree. It’s possible that he could, in which case he gets points for incidentally being good at reading people but loses points because he still gets no money.
The best that can be said for the gambit is that it made good television.