Crazy Poker Prop Bets
- Crazy Poker Prop Bets đ€ RakeAdvisory đ 2020-03-22 Poker players seem to have gambling embedded into their personality, betting as much as possible and as often as possible. We saw lots of crazy poker prop bets over the years, and today weâll take a look at some of them.
- Prop bets, short for proposition bets, are more than an excuse to gamble. Used judiciously, a prop bet can completely change the dynamics of a table. Your goal is to get the other players gambling at online poker.
Poker players seem to have gambling embedded into their personality, betting as much as possible and as often as possible. We saw lots of crazy poker prop bets over the years, and today weâll take a look at some of them.
Prop betting is an excellent way to inject live poker with even more action. It not only gives you an opportunity to win a little extra cash on the side, but it also acts to enhance the social camaraderie among all poker players at the table. Read on to see what types of prop bets we recommend you make next time you play live poker. Poker players love to gamble, especially when the bet is weird and wonderful. In this article, the Betfair Poker Blog takes a look at nine of the best poker prop bets in the history of the game.
Go Vegetarian for 1 Million Dollars
In season 6 of High Stakes Poker, Phil Ivey mentioned that he would give up eating meat for an entire year and he needs an extra incentive in the form of a bet. He initially asked for 5 million dollars, while Tom Dwan was only willing to bet $500,000.
After more negotiations, they agreed to bet 1 million. Dwan was very confident that he will win, but Ivey was also convinced that he could stick to it. But unfortunately for Ivey, he couldnât take it anymore and 20 days later bought out of the deal for a fee of $150,000.
Play Golf for $340,000
During the 2007 WSOP, Erick Lindgren claimed that he can play 4 rounds of golf at the âBearâs Bestâ professional course in one day and break 100 in every round, while also carrying his own clubs. Other players at the table (including Phil Ivey) agreed for a total of $340K, the bet taking place on a day that they would choose.
They picked a hot summer day, in an attempt to make it impossible for Erick. Because of the huge course, he had to walk at least 16 miles, all while carrying his equipment in a torrid day.
The heat was very fierce and Lindgren showed symptoms of exhaustion and dehydration, but he kept on going. He eventually managed to complete the 4 courses, losing 15 pounds in one day but winning $340,000.
Lose 48 Pounds for $2 million
At the 2007 WSOP, Ted Forrest and Mike Matusow got in a discussion about Mikeâs weight. At that time, he weighed 241 lbs. while in high school he only had 181. Ted bet him that he canât get back to that weight before the 2008 WSOP, and Matusow accepted it.
So Mike hired a personal trainer, totally changed his lifestyle and got to work. Just 9 days before the deadline he was still 15 pounds overweight. But he starved himself and managed to win the bet at a very close margin. He was weighing 180.8 lbs.
3 years later on May 5 2010, a similar bet took place, but it was the other way around. Now Ted Forrest bet $50,000 that he can lose 48 pounds by September 15. Not only that Mike Matusow and Justin Smith agreed, but gave him odds of 20:1 and an extra bonus of 100K for doing it by July 15.
Ted seriously got to work and on July 13 he was weighing 138 lbs., thus winning a total of $2 million. Later on, he accused Mike of not paying his part of the bet, and Matusow replied that he never even agreed to this.
Poker player Mike Nooriâs bet to supersize himself on McDonaldâs this weekend is part of a long tradition of outrageous prop bets. From Paul Ivey to Dan Bilzerian, Paul Phua picks out 10 favourites
Starting from today (Friday May 19), poker player Mike Noori has just 36 hours in which to eat $1,000 of McDonaldâs food. Many people believe it cannot be done, estimating that he will need to consume about 70,000 calories â the recommended daily amount is less than 3,000! Others say it can: hundreds of thousands of dollars have by now been wagered on the outcome by poker players.
And why is Mike Noori putting his body through this ordeal? Because he was challenged to do so in a prop bet.
Some poker players will gamble on just about anything: whether itâs as small as what the next woman to enter the room will be wearing, or as big as eating several weeksâ worth of food in 36 hours! The most outrageous of these prop bets make great stories. Here are just ten of them, starting with some old-timers:
Titanic Thompson and the golf ball
Titanic Thompson, who hosted the very first World Series of Poker, is one of the most famous gamblers of all time. Sky Masterson, the hero of the musical Guys and Dolls, was based on him. He was no fool: when Titanic Thompson made a prop bet, he always had an angle. He would first secretly count all the watermelons in a truck and later wager, during a seemingly casual conversation with bystanders, that he could guess the exact number. Another time he bet he could throw a walnut over a building, having first secretly weighted it with lead. And when he bet he could drive a golf ball 500 yards, further than any golf pro had managed at that time, he found no shortage of takers for this seemingly impossible feat. But he simply waited till winter, then drove the ball, bouncing, over a frozen lake!
Amarillo Slim and the ping pong battle
Amarillo Slim was one of the great old-school poker players, who won the first of his four WSOP bracelets in 1972. He, too, would bet on almost anything. Perhaps his most famous prop bet was when he challenged Bobby Riggs, a former tennis champ, to a table tennis match. Slimâs one condition was that he could choose the paddles they used. He showed up with two frying pans, having secretly practised with them for months beforehand. He won the match. He successfully repeated the trick years later against a Taiwanese ping-pong champion, though this time his weapon of choice was Coca-Cola bottles!
Brian Zembic and his 38C breast implants
A magician and high-stakes gambler, Brian Zembic was famous for his bizarre prop bets: he lived in a box for a week and in a bathroom for another week. For another bet he slept the night in Central Park with $20,000 on his person. But one prop bet in particular made the headlines. In 1996, for a $100,000 bet, he agreed to have breast implants â 38C, to be precise â and keep them for a year. He even won the $4,500 cost of the operation from a cosmetic surgeon at backgammon. Not only did Zembic go through with it, he kept the implants for two decades. It was only last year that he appeared on the reality TV show, Botched, saying he had finally decided to have them removed.
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Antonio Esfandiari and the lunges
What is it with magicians? Poker pro Antonio Esfandiari is also a former magician, and one of the most entertaining people you could share a card table with. His willingness to take a prop bet is legendary, though he often lives to regret it: he once swore off eating bread for a year, but cracked after a few minutes; a bet to remain celibate for a year was cancelled after nine days. But the prop bet that made the headlines, for all the wrong reasons, was one where for 48 hours he was not allowed to walk, only to lunge forward (going down on one knee then the other). It caused him so much pain that at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, rather than face going to the toilet, he made use of an empty water bottle at the table, and was promptly disqualified for âbreach of tournament etiquetteâ. To Antonio Esfandiariâs credit, he offered up a sincere public apology for taking things too far, and donated his $50,000 winnings from the prop bet to charity.
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Phil Ivey and the $150,000 steak
Phil Ivey is another player who is never afraid to take a big bet. His golf course wagers with Doyle Brunson and Daniel Negreanu are the stuff of legend, and he famously had a $5 million wager on whether he could win two WSOP bracelets in two years (despite his 10 bracelets overall, he only managed one bracelet in that period). But his craziest prop bet was when Tom Dwan challenged him to go vegetarian for a year. Phil Ivey stood to take down $1 million if he could swear off meat, something he had been thinking of doing anyway. But in the event, Phil Ivey said, he was too busy to work out how to eat healthily, and found eating pasta three times a day affected his poker. So he bought out of the bet after just nine days. The cost of that first juicy steak? $150,000âŠ
Read part two of this Top 10, along with the eagerly awaited result of this weekendâs McDonaldâs prop bet.