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The Propositions They Just Couldn’t Refuse - Poker Pros and Food Prop Bets

Pro players love to engage in #PropBets to take their minds off the game but still keep the adrenaline rushing in their system. Many of those wagers come about  at the poker table and unsurprisingly involve food.

One of the most famous prop bets is @Mike Matusow’s weight loss wager with @Ted Forrest back in 2007-2008. Matusow had exactly one year to get down from 241 lb (127 kg) to his high-school years weight of 181 lb (82 kg) and stood to win $ 100,000 if he managed the feat.

19 days before the deadline Matusow only had 8 more pounds to lose but was booked to go on a cruise with his girlfriend and knew this was going to ruin his strict diet. Ted Forrest refused to settle for 70,000 and after the 7-day cruise, Matusow had indeed gained seven pounds and now had 9 days to lose 15 lb.

“I didn’t eat for the last five days, did a master cleanse and spent time in the Jacuzzi. It was sheer torture. But I did it. I got down to 179.”

As so often happens, the tables were turned some time later and Forrest won $ 2 million from Matusow when he managed to get his weight down from 188 to 138 pounds (85 to 62 kg, respectively) in two months.

Ted Forrest before and after his $2 million weight-loss bet with Matusow.

@Howard Lederer  once broke his strict vegetarian diet and had a cheeseburger that won him $ 10,000 in a bet with @David Grey. He offered Grey the chance to get even by eating an olive, but Grey hated olives so much he declined.

In another well-known high-roller prop bet of 2010, @Tom Dwan  agreed to pay @Phil Ivey  $1 million if he stayed off meat for one full year. Ten days later they settled amicably with Ivey paying $ 150,000.

Since so many of the prop bets revolve around food and quite a few have had successful weight-loss outcomes, it makes you wonder if diet experts might have some lesson to learn from the poker table… (Perhaps some kind member of the RankingHero community might dare me to lose a few pounds to see if the gambler in me will prevail over the glutton?..)

More about prop bets: Team PokerStars Pros @Johnny Lodden,@Theo Jorgensen, and @Ville Wahlbeck discuss all elements of prop bets.

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