The 10 Greatest Prop Best Of All Time

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TOP 10 PROP BETSFor those of you who haven't seen....Put up or shut up1. THE WEIGHT LOSS BETOver the years, Doyle Brunson has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on bets that he’d shed some pounds. But he made up for it in 2003 when a consortium of players offered 10/1 on a $100,000 wager that he would not be able to get below 300lb. Thanks to Weight Watchers and Atkins, Brunson shed the fat and cleared $1m in winnings. Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow was not so lucky. Just before the 2005 WSOP, he and fellow pro Erick Lindgren wagered $20,000 on who could lose more. ‘I dropped 17lb and still lost the bet,’ gripes Matusow. ‘He lost an extra 2lb, but he sandbagged me. He told me he couldn’t lose any more weight – he looked like a fat pig and I believed him. It was bullshit. He admitted it later. But I don’t care.’2. THE THREE-CLUB GOLF BETWorld Series champ and betting legend Huck Seed once took a sixfi gure bet that he could break 100 on a desert golf course, four times in one day, using just a five iron, sand wedge and putter. To make it even tougher, the other guy was able to pick the day. Naturally, he waited till the Vegas mercury spiked up to 120 degrees, but Seed ran the course all day and made his scores after six rounds.3. THE BURGER BETDavid Grey once bet vegetarian Howard Lederer $10,000 that he couldn’t eat a cheeseburger. Lederer insisted he could – and promptly wolfed one down. Then, knowing Grey had a strong aversion to olives, he offered him a chance to win his money back by eating some of those. Without a moment’s thought, Grey tossed Lederer the $10k and kept the green things out of his mouth.4. THE ISOLATION BETJohn Hennigan once made a six-figure bet that he’d be able to spend six weeks living in the ultra-quiet city of Des Moines, Iowa – a place where, at the time of the bet, there were no casinos. Hennigan figured he’d work on his golf game. The other guys knew that Johnny couldn’t stand to be away from the action one week, never mind six. He lasted two days.5. THE OCEAN BETDuring a day at the beach, Phil Hellmuth bet pal Huck Seed that he couldn’t stand in ocean water, up to his shoulders for 18 hours. The amount at stake was $50,000 and the lanky Seed – who once made a tidy profit by learning to do a standing backflip – figured he could hack it. How wrong could he be? The former World Series champ managed three hours before paddling in to shore.6. THE BOWLING BETA favourite gambit of Amarillo Slim was to steer a conversation toward bowling. He’d recall a fellow he once saw bowling blindfolded and the poor guy’s inability to break 100. Sure enough, someone would always pipe up, insisting they could do it. And Slim would reel in a fish, knowing that a blindfolded bowler gets way too disorientated to hit the pins, and usually has problems finding the lane.7. THE BREAST BETBrian Zembic, a backgammon/ poker/Blackjack player of note, was offered a wager by his fastgambling friends: $100,000 if he had breast implants. Zembic must have needed the dough because at the 11th hour he went under the knife and got some 36C tits. He won the bet, but the kicker to this story is that Zembic still has the breasts, which, word has it, serve as a total babe magnet.8. THE IVEY VERSUS LINDGREN GOLF BETWe’ve heard of long odds, but this is something else. Apparently Erick Lindgren is so good at golf (and Phil Ivey so bad) that the two poker pros have made a bet. Ivey fancies his chances so much that he’s bet Lindgren $500,000 that he can beat him over 72 holes sometime in the next eight years. Rumour has it that Ivey has started to take cash off him at match play. Watch this space…9. THE BEARD BETProp-betting Iron Man Huck Seed once wagered good money that he would be able to go an entire year without shaving. He hung in there just fine, until there was an unexpected death in the family and Huck had to shave for the funeral. Ironically, these days he’s often seen sporting the kind of chin-strapping facial hair that’s normally associated with Abraham Lincoln and/or the Amish.10.THE FIGHTING BETBack when Johnny Moss was in his prime, he found himself drinking in a bar alongside a brawny brute who’d never lost a bar fight in his life. Moss’ cronies offered him 15/1 that he couldn’t KO this bruiser. Moss started by sucker punching the guy from behind, but the shot wasn’t quite decisive and Johnny wound up in hospital with several broken bones. ‘15/1 was too good to pass up,’ he commented later.

[eYank 0]

Interesting

[ajs510 122]

Nice thread, the 3 club golf bet is amazing. I can't break 100 with every club in my bag available to me...I wonder if that's the problem? <grin>

[benhoug 0]

A few obvious ones didn't make the list...Slim betting that he could hit a golf ball over a mile. He hit out onto a frozen lake and the ball rolled well over the mile needed.Slim beating Minnesota Fats in pool w/ a broomstick.Slim beating Bobby Riggs in Ping Pong using frying pans as paddles.Huck Seed betting that he could run a mile backwards (in under 10 minutes I think). He lost that one.

[mtdesmoines 3]

10.THE FIGHTING BETBack when Johnny Moss was in his prime, he found himself drinking in a bar alongside a brawny brute who’d never lost a bar fight in his life. Moss’ cronies offered him 15/1 that he couldn’t KO this bruiser. Moss started by sucker punching the guy from behind, but the shot wasn’t quite decisive and Johnny wound up in hospital with several broken bones. ‘15/1 was too good to pass up,’ he commented later.

LOL.

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TOP 10 PROP BETS10.THE FIGHTING BETBack when Johnny Moss was in his prime, he found himself drinking in a bar alongside a brawny brute who’d never lost a bar fight in his life. Moss’ cronies offered him 15/1 that he couldn’t KO this bruiser. Moss started by sucker punching the guy from behind, but the shot wasn’t quite decisive and Johnny wound up in hospital with several broken bones. ‘15/1 was too good to pass up,’ he commented later.

LOL

[pragtyro 0]

Missing all of Ted Forrest's bets, he's got almost as many good ones as slimHe once bet $10,000 that he could bench press 250lbs 50 times in 24 hours. He lost 10k and most of his right pectoral.

[ukwildcat09 0]

Number 10 is by far the best. Started off by sucker punching him...lol!

[Jrobb25 0]

I believe The result of the isolation bet is wrong...I think hennigan actually won that bet.

[gfdsa146 0]

in case anyone is wondering, this is where he got it from http://www.inside-edge-mag.co.uk/pokerlife...ition_bets.html

[stevielarson 0]

i seem to remember one, i think it was forrest, who made a bet with someone he could run a marathon that day. it was like the hottest day in las vegas too but i think he stuck it out on the track at UNLV but was severly dehydrated and exhausted after.

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I believe The result of the isolation bet is wrong...I think hennigan actually won that bet.

im pretty sure they talked about in on the nuts for the wsop one time along with the breast bet, im pretty sure he lost, didnt get close

[SweetDaddyFreak 0]

Haha, I would love to hear the stories behind how most of those got started

[farmist 0]

Sucker punched him from behind?!? Lol, that is frickin priceless.

[Craigdog 0]

Im not sure but I believe it was Huck Seed or Howard Lederer that bet Ted Forrest about $25,000 that he couldn't run a marathon the next day. Forrest went down to the track with Seed the following day and started running aroung the track. The heat edged up to about 110 degrees and Forrest was completely exhausted. He finished the marathon but was in real bad shape. He lost a part of his heel and spent the next two weeks recovering.

[CBass1724 1]

He lost a part of his heel and spent the next two weeks recovering.

Who runs a marathon in heels?

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TOP 10 PROP BETS10.THE FIGHTING BETBack when Johnny Moss was in his prime, he found himself drinking in a bar alongside a brawny brute who’d never lost a bar fight in his life. Moss’ cronies offered him 15/1 that he couldn’t KO this bruiser. Moss started by sucker punching the guy from behind, but the shot wasn’t quite decisive and Johnny wound up in hospital with several broken bones. ‘15/1 was too good to pass up,’ he commented later.

Definitely the best 1 of the 10.

[supertouch 0]

The isolation bet was for 3 months or so and half way through the guy that made the bet with Hennigan called it off becuase he knew he was going to lose. As I understood it the beach bet was that Huck could float in the ocean for something like 12 hours and he gave up and paid Phil. The back flip I'm pretty sure was Ted Forest not Huck Seed.

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I would have loved to have seen Huck with the beard.

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6. THE BOWLING BETA favourite gambit of Amarillo Slim was to steer a conversation toward bowling. He’d recall a fellow he once saw bowling blindfolded and the poor guy’s inability to break 100. Sure enough, someone would always pipe up, insisting they could do it. And Slim would reel in a fish, knowing that a blindfolded bowler gets way too disorientated to hit the pins, and usually has problems finding the lane.

He also turned this around after people figured it couldn't be done. He found a blind man who could do it. Put sunglasses on the guy, said he was his driver, and collected the dough. He celebrated by seducing his granddaughter.

[SweetDaddyFreak 0]

Who runs a marathon in heels?

Part of the heel of his foot started coming off, like the skin on the bottom of his foot starting seperating and flopping around, it's deatailed in The Professor, Banker and Suicide King

[suicideking 0]

Forrest's bet was for $7,000. The soles of his feet peeled off from the heat. He was broke at the time.

[mtdesmoines 3]

Forrest's bet was for $7,000. The soles of his feet peeled off from the heat. He was broke at the time.

I like how some people never heard of a j-o-b. When he started sliding, he should have gotten a job to meet expenses and supplement his bankroll. Instead, he ran it down to zero, then had to take a ridiculous prop bet to earn money and almost ended up getting his feet amputated.

[navybuttons 15]

after amarillo slim won the bet against the tennis pro with the frying pans there was another bet that he could beat anyone in the world if he got to pick the paddles. a bunch of gamblers hired a ping-pong champion and had him train for months with frying pans. on the day of the match slim picked round coke bottles (with which he had been training) and promptly won.there was also a bet that huck seed's brother (leif?) couldn't run from las vegas to los angeles. leif sprained something and lost.i read one about a guy who moved a sign that had the distance to las vegas on it. whenever he was driving back to LV he would bet people that the sign was at least 5 miles off and win every time.

[finztotheleft 0]

Did Doyle just go on a diet ? I thought I heard somewhere that he had gastric bypass surgery