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Sep 17, 2012 By all standards, Chip Reese is the greatest professional poker player of all time. He has won millions in cash games, millions in tournaments, and has played in almost every part of the world. Aside from his poker skill, Reese was loved and respected by the poker community until the day of.
The Cereus Network, which consisted of Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, will go down as one of the worst online poker scams of all time. UltimateBet was launched in 2001, and Absolute Poker was first launched in 2003, based out of Costa Rica.
Sep 30, 2011 Re: Beat: watched the worst movie of all time? Gets my vote. Also Rise of the planet of the Apes is just about the most dissapointing movie I have seen in a long time.
Oct 19, 2019 Matt Affleck's reaction (most would have reacted the same given the amount of money on the line, in my opinion) made this beat even worse, as now this hand will live in poker infamy forever.-Given all of the different factors involved, the Matt Affleck beat has to be the worst bad beat in poker history. Back to Answers.

Poker players are known for being risk seekers. They’re also known for being willing to put money on the line for just about anything if they think there’s a chance it can be profitable. We’re sharing these statements with you so you can begin to understand the basis behind prop bets between poker players. When we talk about prop bets in this context, we’re talking about two individuals betting on another’s ability to accomplish a certain task. For example, if I bet you $50 you can’t go the whole month without eating candy, that’s a prop bet. If I bet you $20 that I can beat you in a race, that’s a prop bet.

Now, the examples we’ve given are for small amounts of money and are relatively “normal” in the grand scheme of things. What we want to talk about today are the obscure, wild, high-stakes, and downright odd prop bets that poker players have been a part of over the years. The motivation behind these bets is always a little mixed. The main driving force usually is that both parties think they can make money. If you accept my $20 prop bet to race, you are doing it because you think you can beat me and win $20. I am doing it because I think I can beat you and make $20.

Apr 27, 2018 When you think of the biggest bad beats in poker history a few moments come to mind. We all remember the tears of Matt Affleck when Jonathan Duhamel made a straight on the river versus his aces, or perhaps you prefer the bad beat that Max Heinzelmann put on Shaun Deeb after six-bet shoving into his aces with ace-six? This week, we look at a forgotten bad beat from the World Series of Poker.

Occasionally prop bets are driven by a desire for entertainment or out of the goodness of their heart, but these are rare. This would be like us betting you $20 that you can’t go to school dressed like a clown. We know you are fully capable of it and will probably do it. We know we will lose the $20 bet, but it is worth it to us to get to watch you prancing around campus like a clown. Prop bets out of the goodness of someone’s heart are usually attempts to get someone to better their life. For example, if we were to bet you $20 that you couldn’t lose 10 lbs in the next two months. We might do this hoping that we lose the bet and that you get in better shape because you’re our friend. Again, these two are much less common than the financial motivation. It’s pretty safe to say that most of the examples of crazy prop bets we’re mentioning today will be financially motivated.

Know the Lingo

Before we go any further, we want to make sure you’re up to speed on the gambling prop bet lingo. These are the keywords and phrases that professional gamblers use when talking about these types of bets as well as other bets. Take a quick second to read them, and you’ll be talking the talk in no time.

Booked

This means when a bet is set to go, and all terms have been agreed upon. This is similar to signing a contract, although the backing here is only the player’s word and reputation.

Buyout

When a player no longer wants to compete in a bet, they can ask for a buyout option. If granted, a buyout allows the player to admit defeat and pay less than the full amount of the bet. Bettors are never required to grant a buyout, though, they’re usually granted if an amount to be paid can be agreed upon.

Giving Odds

This refers to offering better payouts to try and entice someone to take a bet. For example, let’s say I want to bet you $10 that I can make five free throws in a row. You might not take that bet because there’s a good chance I can do that. But I might offer you odds, or give you odds to try and sweeten the deal. Let’s say I offer you odds of 8 to 1. This means that I will put up $8 for every $1 you put up. That means that if you bet $10 and I win, you will owe me $10. But, if you win the bet, I will owe you $80, because of the odds. This can really help to push action and get bets rolling.

Action

Action just refers to someone taking your bet. If you say that someone is giving you action, it means that they are willing to bet with you on your proposed wager.

How We Ranked Them

We didn’t. Someone bet us $100 we wouldn’t. Kidding. The actual reason that we didn’t rank these or put the bets in any particular order is that each one is special in its own way. Some of these bets are for less money but are much more classic than the others. Some are much more interesting depending on what your interests are. Basically, we decided that it would not do the list justice if we were to put them in any kind of order. Feel free to let us know which ones are your favorites, and we may come back through and put them in a fan selected order.

The Main Course | The Bets

Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan are two of the highest stakes players in the poker world. They’re also two of the biggest action junkies on the planet always looking for a rush from some sort of wild bet. On season six of High Stakes Poker, a GSN show of a high stakes invite only poker game, Dwan and Ivey began talking about how capable each of them would be to go vegetarian for an entire year. Ivey was looking for someone to bet him that he couldn’t go the entire year without eating any meat. The numbers fluctuated back and forth, but before the night was over the bet was booked.

If Ivey could go an entire year without eating meat, Tom Dwan would have to pay him $1,000,000. If he couldn’t make it, he would have to pay Dwan $1,000,000. 365 days of green eating would result in 1,000,000 green slips of currency. Ivey made it three weeks until he was begging to be let out of the bet. As is customary, bettors are sometimes given the option of buying out of the bet for a certain negotiated cost. This isn’t discussed when the bet is booked, but only when someone wants out. If no agreement is made for a buyout, then the bet continues as originally booked. Technically, no buyout is required to be offered but is sometimes done as a courtesy. Tom Dwan let Ivey buyout for $150,000.

Run 70 Miles in 24 Hours for $285,000

While we’re on the topic of healthy eating and healthy living bets, let’s talk about one of the more insane prop bets of all time. Regarding health, we highly recommend that no one try this one, no matter how much money it’s for. Enter into the ring, Ashton Griffin. Griffin, for those that don’t know him, was a 22-year-old poker pro at the time from Orlando, Florida. Griffin was looking to bet that he could run 70 miles in a 24 hour period. Now, for those that are wondering, Griffin was not a professional runner by any means but did have a background in cross-country running and was rumored to be in great shape. Even for a professional, 70 miles in 24 hours is an insane and somewhat dangerous task.

After some intense negotiations, the bet was finally booked with Griffin’s roommate Haseeb Qureshi, also a professional poker player. Unlike the first bet we talked about, Griffin was giving odds to entice action. That means that Griffin was willing to put up more money than he were going to win if he lost the bet. If Griffin won the bet, he would be paid $70,000. If he lost the bet, he would have to pay Qureshi $210,000. He was willing to put up $3 for every $1 Qureshi put up to make the bet more enticing and get some action.

While these dollar amounts are already absurd, they weren’t the ending point of the bet. The two continue to push the size of the bet upwards even after the bet started. The final numbers were $285,000 if Griffin won and $855,000 if Qureshi won.

You would think that Griffin

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