Known this girl for a few weeks and met up with her the other night. Talking to her, joking around, etc. Massive amount of IOIs(Holding eye contact, flipping hair, nothing but positive body language) throughout. Chick was clearly into me. I didn't make a move... Felt a bit awkward to take advantage of her given her situation.

Another guy enters the set, positions himself near her, starts opening on me and then her. She starts grabbing at me when he opens her but I play it off unphased and leave her to talk to him as if it means nothing to me. I maintain my cool throughout and pay her and him little to no attention. From time to time she starts touching me(Tap on the shoulder, grabbing my arm, etc.). It's not long until he starts trying to compete with me, throwing off-handed remarks at me to try lower my value. I play it cool, don't react to it, pay him little attention and stick to my statements and opinions.

Now, i'm pretty sure this guy was a veteran PUA. He knew his stuff and i'm pretty sure I seen him play a few routines on her including the Ring Routine. During all this I paid them no attention. I couldn't open other women because they weren't around or near so that option of DHVing was gone so I stuck with being the guy everyone talked to and looked to in the group, the leader. I ignored her during this until the end of the night when I left. He got her number before I left with her. Before I left with her I gave him and his friend a handshake to which he whispered to me "You're a clever man." I don't know if he was referring to my general frame throughout and how I handled the situation or how I left with her.

Walked her a bit of the way home, said goodnight and didn't close her. She looked confused and wanted more. I just walked on.

Should I freeze this girl out or focus more on building up more attraction with her?

I have the feeling I may have shown too little interest in her and her original plot behind reacting well to this guy was to spike my interest.

Sounds to me like that guy made her uncomfortable as fuck and her tapping you on the shoulder was her non verbal way of saying get me the fuck away from this guy. I wouldn't freeze her out because her giving her # to him could have been her trying to shoe him off. Happens quite often. Also are you sure she gave him the right #? I would call her upact like the whole thing didn't happen and go out with her again somewhere where you won't have a situation like this again.

I had a situation a couple years ago. I was out with a girl we were chiilin on a patio guy comes over calls me a goof and proceeds to insult the girl I was with choice of clothes. I was a little dumbfounded so I didn't do anything to stop him. Then he went back to his friends table I walked over and said excuse me sir that really was not nice what you said to the lady over there I'd appreciate it if you apologized to her his response fuck you my response oh ya? And push kicked him clean off his chair. No I don't condone violence, but I felt it was necessary in that instance. Point of the story is if another guy is making the girl you're with uncomfortable its your job as a man to protect her, but I'm old school like that.

Anyway hope that helps!

She left with you, right? That's all that matters.

Understand something man... If you are going to have hot women in your life, other guys are going to hit on her and she is going to flirt back. Girls like to flirt. It's fun for them. The key to keeping her around is frame control. From the story you've told... it seems to me like you kept your frame aside from getting a little "hurt" that she gave him her number.

Rams will butt heads and the female fucks the winner. It's nature dude.

The only important point in your post. Just close her.

Thanks for the replies!

She seemed a bit awkward at first and would grab at me full on then little taps on my shoulder when she laughed at his jokes from time to time. After a few minutes she became comfortable and looked to be enjoying herself so I left it and maintained my frame.

I didn't give her too much attention throughout because she's a bit vulnerable at the moment and it didn't feel right to go all in even though she was flipping her hair, holding eye contact, looking for excuses to touch me and throwing just about every IOI in the book my way. I was under the impression she seen I wasn't interested enough and decided to get my attention by talking with this guy. She got a bit less flirty with him and interested after I moved away and started shifting her focus which i'm guessing he noticed as he started to neg me and try compete.