the-8-craziest-bets-ever

[fjaka]

the-8-craziest-bets-ever

run out of money? no problem your wife would make excellent collateral

and other stories

[Russian Rocket]

this stuff is great!

[YorkHunt]

LOL the dude had for a year and kept them after anyways

[PaperTrail07]

lol that was on tv at one point....simply unreal...Bluff CALLED lololo

LOL the dude had for a year and kept them after anyways

[PaperTrail07]

Real Life Rain Man


Remember Bob Stupak, the million-dollar man? He had a friend named Stu Ungar. Stu Ungar was amazing. He’s still a legend among blackjack players due to his ability to calculate the odds and remember every card dealt. Doubting his prodigious talents, perhaps, Stupak bet him $100,000 that he couldn’t remember every card in three decks—dealt all in a row. He got all of them right, with not one miss out of 156.


Read more: http://www.mademan.com/the-8-crazies...#ixzz3PJuf7R2y

[PaperTrail07]

That is simply impressive ******

[bryanoens]

Genius genius genius

[SharpAngles]

My two favorite prop bet stories.

The folks at Amarillo Slim's country club were utterly baffled when Slim declared that he could drive a golf ball a distance of one mile or more and backed up his claim with a $40,000 wager. After establishing that Slim would attempt the feat hitting from a regulation tee with a PGA-approved golf club (and not hitting it off a mountain, dropping it from an airplane or actually "driving" the ball for one mile inside his car) he got a slew of takers, most of whom thought it would be easy money. Finally, the method to Slim's madness emerged. A crowd of onlookers followed Slim as he drove across town, parked next to a huge frozen lake, and teed up. Slim swung his club and the ball skipped across the ice, not stopping for over a mile and a half.

Mike Svobodny, a famous backgammon player, once bet Ted Forrest $7k that he couldn’t run a marathon at the University of Nevada Las Vegas track field. As if running isn’t unbearable on its own, the blistering heat made the track so hot, it melted the soles of Forrest’s shoes during his 26 mile run. He reached the finish line and immediately went to the hospital with the blistered feet of a Kenyan.

[IWANTMONEY]

My two favorite prop bet stories.
He reached the finish line and immediately went to the hospital with the blistered feet of a Kenyan.

What had the Kenyan done to deserve such a fate?

[a4u2fear]

Interesting, thanks

[Slanina]

Good read.

[chipper]

The article got it wrong about Stupak and the Superbowl bet. He bet on the Bengals NOT San Fran. San Fran won the game but Cincinnati covered and Stupak won the bet placed at Little Caesars (a small casino in a strip mall located on LV Blvd where the present day Paris now stands).