Common Poker Prop Bets
Poker player Mike Noori’s bet to supersize himself on McDonald’s 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 McDonald’s food.Many people believe it cannot be done, estimating that he will need to. 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 happened to be strolling through the jam-packed hallways of the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino earlier this year – soaking in the sights and sounds of the 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP)– you might just have met a man dressed as a shark passing out $1 bills.
No, this wasn’t a promotional stunt for poker sunglasses company Blue Shark Optics or one of the weirdos who come to the WSOP every year looking to play dress-up.
Instead, recreational player Brandon Potter of Connecticut wore the shark costume while paying passersby a buck apiece to tell him a bad beat story.
During a segment of ESPN’s coverage of the WSOP Main Event, reporter Joe Stapleton caught up with Potter to find out exactly how he came to find himself in such a curious position.
As it turns out, Potter recently lost a “last longer” bet to a poker pal, with the mutually agreed upon punishment being a day spent listening to bad beat stories.
When his friend survived longer in the tournament both were playing, Potter came out on the wrong end of the painful prop bet, forcing him to don the carnivore costume while doing the worst dutyin poker.
As you can see here in this photo snapped by former Bluff Magazine editor Lance Bradley, Potter didn’t seem to be all that happy about his predicament, but then again, that’s the wholepoint.
Brandon Potter is paying people $1 to hear bad beat stories. He’s gotta get rid of $100 in two hours after losing a last longer bet.
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Common Poker Prop Bets Prop
— Lance Bradley (@Lance_Bradley) July 3, 2018Common Poker Prop Bets Real Money
In this post, I’m going to explore the weird and wonderful world of prop betting among poker players. You might think that these people are fully committed to their gambling on the felt, butthat’s obviously not enough excitement for them.