Landon Tice Bets $10k He Can Win WSOP Gold Bracelet

Landon Tice has made a $10k bet with Bill Perkins that he can win a live WSOP gold bracelet at his first series. Tice and Bill Perkins fought out barely a quarter of their recent heads-up match before the youngster pulled the plug. Tice agreed to give his opponent a 9bb/100 headstart, which equated to a $720,000 headstart. Tice announced the end of that particular battle, but now his decision to give Perkins 8-1 on the WSOP bracelet bet has come under scrutiny.

As the results of his Twitter poll show, fully 73.6% believe he has agreed to yet another bad price, standing to win only $80,000 if he manages to secure one of the 40 or so bracelets up for grabs in No Limit Hold’em events. The legendary 2003 Main Event champ, Chris Moneymaker, was among numerous stars of the game to comment. Canadian poker queen Vanessa Kade commented: “This should be at least 20:1 and I think you’re really good.” Randy Lew’s advice was taken on board: “You better play for the win at those FTs and skip icm! Gl” with Tice describing that scenario as “a great problem to have” should he make a final table.

Tice stated multiple times that he’d be bankrolling his WSOP run himself, that would seem to discount some or all of the High Roller and Super High Roller events, where the much smaller fields would up his chances of bagging gold. Tice, however, had other ideas and made Bill another offer.