I don't know how he should have handled the situation. But dismissing people's concerns as "arguing about nothing" isn't the right way. Accusing players of being thieves isn't the right way either.
You would have handled the situation like Dean I guess :
http://calvinayre.com/2013/07/19/business/12k-freeroll-bitcoin-betting-site-just-dice/If the article is write, you prefered to take the money out of investor instead of using your own because you couldn't take it from celeste!
Dean prefered to take the money out of sjess instead of taking it from investor/his pocket