Historic Poker Bets: From Weight Loss to Wild Challenges

The Nevada Gaming Control Board and Las Vegas bookmakers decided to eliminate this injustice.

The initiative for amendments to the betting legislation was made by the company Cantor Fitzgerald, one of whose areas is bookmaking.

In 2003, a group of players bet $1,000,000 against $100,000 of Doyle Brunson. Doyle Brunson won the bet by losing weight to 136 kg using the Atkins diet and Weight Watchers products.

In 2005, Mike Matuza bet $20,000 with Erik Lindgren on who would lose more weight. In 2007, Ted Forrest bet $100,000 with Mike Matuza that he could lose weight from 110 kg to 82 kg in a year. In 2008, Ted Forrest had to lose weight from 86 kg to 62.5 kg and won $2,000,000.

In March 2009, Hack Said bet between $2,000 and $5,000 with a coefficient of 33 to 1 that he could run 1 mile in 4 minutes and 39 seconds by the end of the year. David Sklansky confirmed that Hack Said lost the bet.

In 1984, Mike Svobodny bet $7,000 that Ted Forrest could not run a marathon distance in 6 hours. David Grey bet $10,000 with Howard Lederer that he would eat a cheeseburger. Howard Lederer bet $10,000 with David Grey that he would eat olives.

Phil Ivey bet $1,000,000 with Tom Dwan that he could go a year without eating animal products. John Hennigan bet $100,000 that he could live in Des Moines, Iowa for 6 weeks. In 2008, Andrew Robl bet with his friend Jay Quick that Jay would live in a bathtub for 30 days. In the 1970s, Johnny Moss bet $15,000 that he would attack a notorious gangster in a Las Vegas bar.