recently I asked a question about this guy I was dating and that he was a player. One night, I texted him asking him, if he wanted to go to the beach with me and he said sure. However, I decided to go with someone else I was seeing and I had to break the news to him. He seemed upset when I hung up and a few minutes later, he told me not to tell the other guy my secret. This secret is something that I told him about me which occurred in the past. Why did he even bring this up?
When I reached home, I texted him saying that I want to be friends with him still but he said if we are going to be friends, we will only say hi and bye. I told him this was no problem. Afterwards, he told me that he was single. Why did he tell me this? Does he want us to be together? If so, how can initiate the process if he's no longer talking to me?
It sounds like from his perspective you told him he's in LJBF land and his reaction is "okay, but I'm back on the market so don't get weirded out when you see me with other women".
If you are playing hard to get, then you just eliminated yourself from his field of play, so to speak (if only for the time being).
If he's a true player, he might use this as leverage to get in your pants. If not, he believed he and you were close (judging from the secret thing you told him).
From what you're saying here, you actually played him, not the other way around.
Sounds like he thinks you're playing hard to get, which'll drive him nuts. He probably told you he's single to make you feel like you should grab him while the going's good.