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In gambling, a 'proposition bet' (prop bet, prop, novelty, or a side bet) is a bet made regarding the occurrence or non-occurrence during a game (usually a gambling game) of an event not directly affecting the game's final outcome.
If you follow the poker world closely, you should know that Ted Forrest is known for his outlandish prop bets. Well, on Sunday, Forrest and Matusow entered into a prop bet of their own, and it will be interesting to see whether or not Matusow can win the bet. According to Matusow, it will be a piece of cake and a slam dunk. Two professional poker players made a $100,000 bet while playing at a Las Vegas casino in September that required one of them to live in complete isolation for 30 days in a pitch-black bathroom, a. An American poker pro named Rich Alati will attempt to spend 30 days locked inside a bathroom in total darkness, with no human contact and no way to tell how much time has passed. If he can do it. Rich Alati, a poker pro with more than $300,000 in live tournament earnings, was up for the challenge, while WSOP Asia Pacific bracelet winner Rory Young bet against him. The rules were simple.
Proposition bets in sports are differentiated from the general bets for or against a particular team or regarding the total number of points scored. Traditionally, proposition bets can be made on outcomes such as the number of strikeouts a pitcher will accumulate in a baseball game, whether a non-offensive player will score in an American football game, which team will score the first points of the game,[1] the discipline record of teams in a match, the timing of certain events, the number of specific events per team or in the entire match, realistically any statistically discrete event contained in a match or game could be bet on.
Fixing part of a match for a certain result in a proposition bet is called spot-fixing.
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There are a wide range of events or outcomes commonly bet on, including:
- Which specific sub-outcomes occur during a game in which multiple sub-outcomes normally have the same value, for example:
- The number of balls/strikes thrown by a baseball pitcher
- Which team scores first in a match
- The specific face value of one or more individual dice in craps
- Which cards will make up the flop in a hand of poker
- Which cards are dealt in blackjack: Over 35 different blackjack side bets are widely recognized in casinos. On some bets, such as the 'Lucky Ladies' side bet that wins only if the first two cards dealt to a player equal 20.[2] These bets are rarely favoured by experienced gamblers as the house edge on them typically exceeds the edge in a normal game. For example, the 'Super 7s' side bet in blackjack has a house edge of 12.6%,[3] while blackjack itself has a house edge of around 1% if the player follows basic strategy. There are side bets however that have very low house advantages such as 'The 18 Bet' at the Eureka Casino in Mesquite which is almost under 2%.
- Specific aspects of the pageantry surrounding a sporting event, such as a) the duration of the word 'brave' in the pregame performance of the U.S. national anthem or b) the colour of the Gatorade or other sports drink dumped on the winning team's coach in the traditional practical joke and victory ritual known as a Gatorade shower
Some jurisdictions do not allow casinos to offer any type of non-sport related proposition bets,[4] but these kinds of prop bets can often be found online.
Dare for money[edit]
Less commonly, 'proposition bet' (in this context also 'one-of-a-kind bet') denotes a dare for money. The bet is on whether the 'dared' person will make a given event happen. If the 'dared' person accepts the bet, he will collect if he succeeds or pay if he fails.
For an example detailed in the book The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, David Grey once bet Howard Lederer, a professional poker player who became vegetarian following gastric bypass surgery, $10,000 that Lederer would not eat a cheeseburger. Lederer accepted the wager, ate the cheeseburger, and won the bet.
Spot fixing[edit]
Spot-fixing is an illegal activity where a person involved in the game takes steps to ensure a certain result for a proposition bet. Instead of fixing an entire match, or shaving points, spot fixing can be done with as little as one player, and can involve ensuring a certain outcome on only a single play, and may be completely unrelated to the points/results in a game.
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Examples include Matt Le Tissier attempting to fix the time of a throw-in by kicking it out immediately after the game started,[5] or Ryan Tandy attempting to fix the first point scored method in a rugby league game, failing after the opposition decided against kicking a penalty goal and instead scored a try.[6] Multiple cricket players on teams at all levels of the sport have also attempted to fix events, such as the number of wides or no-balls in an over or the number of runs scored.
The fact that these minor events often contribute a minor or non-existent impact on the score or result of a game makes recruiting players for spot fixing an easier attraction than attempting to fix an entire match that may consist of dozens of players.
References[edit]
- ^'An Introduction to Proposition and Matched Betting'. SB Pal. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^'Blackjack Side Bets'. WizardofOdds.com. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
- ^'Blackjack Side Bets - Super Sevens'. WizardofOdds.com. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ^'Super Bowl Prop Bets'. Bet the Super Bowl. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
- ^'Le Tissier in failed betting scam'. BBC Sport. 3 September 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- ^'Tandy guilty in NRL fixing scam'. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Abc.net.au. 6 October 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
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Professional poker players are known for being risk-takers as they put their money on the line just about everyday at the poker table and believe they can beat their counterparts and make a successful living.
One of the things that poker players often do to make things more interesting is to take part in unique prop bets that can sometime be outrageous, controversial, dangerous and extremely challenging.
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We list the six most craziest prop bets that poker players have engaged in during the last few years.
#1 Antonio Esfandiari – Lunge For 48 Hours
High stakes poker pro Bill Perks challenged Antonio ‘the magician’ Esfandiari at the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) to a $50,000 prop bet that would require Esfandiari to stop walking for 48 hours and only move around through lunges.
Esfandiari who is one of the most successful poker players in the history of the game with more than $27 million in prize money accepted the bet and got himself into a lot of trouble.
Esfandiari was taking part at the PCA and had more than $115,000 in chips at the table. He did not tell anyone about the bet and soon realized that he was suffering muscle fatigue from his constant lunges.
He decided to bring a bucket to the table and used it to relive himself as he could no longer lunge to the bathroom. Esfandiari’s antics at the table were discovered and as a result, he was kicked out of the PCA. Although he won $50,000 from Perkins, his reputation took a hit and Esfandiari admitted in retrospect that he should have used better judgment. He ended up donating the $50,000 to charity.
#2 Dan Bilzerian – LA to Vegas Cycling In 48 Hours
Bill Perkins was once again at the center of this unique bet with Instagram king and high stakes poker pro Dan Bilzerian.
Perkins challenged Bilzerian to cycle from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 48 hours for $600,000 and Bilzerian accepted the challenge.
Not many gave Bilzerian a chance as he admitted it was years since he got one a bike but once he accepted the challenge Bilzerian took things seriously. He worked with Lance Armstrong to build his stamina and in the end succeeded in completing the race within 48 hours – although there was some controversy as Bilzerian allegedly drafted behind a van that was filming the event.
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In the end, Perkins accepted that he lost the bet and paid Bilzerian the money.
#3 Ted Forrest – Weight Loss Bet
Poker Pro Mike Matusow put $2 million on the line in 2010 when he challenged Ted Forrest to lose weight and go from 181 lbs to 140 lbs within a short time frame.
Forrest was not allowed to use any diuretics or amputate any part of his body to make weight.
Back in 2008, Forrest had challenged Matusow who weighed 250 pounds to make to 181 pounds for $100,000. Matusow made the weight and Forrest paid him $100,000.
So when it came to Forrest’s turn to make weight, he hired himself a fitness trainer and worked really hard to lose the weight. He made the weight in time but in the end Matusow only ended up paying him $70,500. Forrest isn’t pleased that Matusow hedged on his bet and called him out on Twitter in 2014 but is yet to be paid in full.
.@CardPlayerMedia Correcting the numbers: @themouthmatusow has payed me $70.500 of the 1.8million he owes me for the weight loss bet #4years
— Ted Forrest (@ForrestTed) 9 September 2014
#4 Phil Hellmuth – Shaves Head After 2002 WSOP
Not a lot of people remember this bet because it happened way back in 2002 but it is memorable because Phil Hellmuth, considered one of the best poker pros in the history of the game with 14 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and over $20 million in prize money shaved his head after losing a prop bet.
During the 2002 WSOP, amateur poker pro Robert Varkonyi eliminated Hellmuth from the Main Event and Hellmuth would go on to say that he would shave his head if Varkonyi would go on to win the Main Event.
Varkonyi ended up winning the main event and he was kind enough to let Hellmuth off the hook but since Hellmuth had promised his hair to charity, he ended up shaving his head, donating his hair and then paying $10,000 from his own pocket to charity to buy his hair back.
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#5 Phil Ivey – Go Veggie For One Year
Tom “durrrr” Dwan told poker great Phil Ivey that he would pay him $1 million if he could be a total vegetarian for a period of 12 months.
Ivey accepted the bet and tried raising the stakes to $5 million but Dwan declined since he did not have the money.
In retrospect, Dwan should have accepted the bet as within 20 days Ivey decided to pay Dwan $150,000 and buy out the bet as he realized being a complete vegetarian was more difficult than he expected.
#6 Brian Zembic – Boob Implants
Brian Zembic is not remembered for his accomplishments at the poker table but rather for his strange bet than won him $100,000.
Zembic was promised $100,000 if he got boob implants in 1996 and then an additional $10,000 for every year that he kept them. He went through with the bet and got 38C boob implants and won $100,000. He has kept his implants for nearly 20 years and in 2016 stated that he was contemplating removing them as he realized that money isn’t everything.
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