Awesome Ivey prop bet rumor ...
 

From Pauly's blog

"Phil Ivey who has so many prop bets that it's hard to keep up. There's the $2 million bet (at 5-1 odds) that he'd win a bracelet this year, and I found out on Day 3 about another bet specifically about a $30,000 bet that he made where he was getting 10-1 odds that he's win the HORSE event. If my math is correct... had Ivey won HORSE, he would have collected $10,300,000 in prop bets."

Even for an amount I could afford, there's no way in hell I'd give 5-1 against Ivey winning a bracelet. 3-1 maybe. Maybe.

I wonder who put up the $2 million.

That's not the question ...
 

If I'm understanding this correctly, it's Ivey who put up the $2 million, betting someone (or a group more likely) that he won't win a bracelet, and getting five to one odds. So the question is not who put up the $2 million -- it's who will put up the $10 million if he does!

He has a 200k bet with Lindgren that he can't walk 4 rounds and shoot under a 100 on each in 1 day. Lindgren shot sub 90's on the 1st 2 and was at 45 or 46 after the 1st 9 on the 3rd round. This is a pretty good prop bet. Doubt I could do it.

Ivey does all these props bets because playing tournament poker is boring to him and he has to keep it interesting somehow. if he didnt do all these prop bets, he would probable not even play most events during the WSOP and just play the cash games.

Another prop bet that occurred yesterday (from what I can tell)....

Erick Lindgren had 100k prop bet with Gavin Smith. He would play 4 rounds, carry his own clubs, shoot under 100 in every round in 24 hours or less. Phil Ivey heard about the bet and wanted action on it and took 200k and Erick accepted and also took more action for a total of about 340k. Erick normally shoots around high 80s. The course was over 7000 yds. And this is in vegas.

Ivey was seen on FTP saying something like, I don't care if he wins...as long as he suffers. Erick went on to win the prop bet. Details on 2+2 NVG.

Wow, 4 rounds, carrying your bag in that heat and breaking 100 for all 4 rounds in under 24 hours... I'm impressed.

I wonder how much Ivey has been practicing since a few years ago when we saw his first round on the WSOP thing.

There is a big difference between "24 hours" and "one day." I'm still as impressed, but not as much as I was before.

Even in the Vegas heat, a guy who usually shoots in the 80s should be able to break 100 twice in the afternoon and then two more times the next morning, walking the whole way.

Cool bet though. I love high stakes prop bets.

When I was playing with Joe Sebok a few weeks ago, he was telling me all about the prop bet he and Gavin Smith had, where they got in the ring with professional female boxers. I had read a blurb about it somewhere, but he gave me the whole story. Hearing him tell it was hilarious. Apparently, when they got there, they intended to actually fight the girls, but theie manager (or someone) refused, because they couldn't risk getting hurt... so the guy agreed to not hit them, and only TAKE the punches. Joe had to go first and got his clock cleaned pretty good. Gavin "being the bitch that he is" (Joe's words) went second and totally "cheated," blocking with his arms and half punching back with his blocks and that sort of thing. I would have loved to have seen that.

not 100% on this....but I think he did it all in one day. I think his first round began at around 5:30 am yesterday.

According to Pauly's Tao of Poker blog he had to do them in succession on the same day and did so. Apparently on the 4th and final round he shot 49 on the front and had to sweat staying under 51 on the back (where he was averaging a worse score than the front), but pulled it off.

They've got a whole series of dumb bets. Enjoy.

Good stuff - thanks.

Funy how the video tells a fairly different story than what {I remember} Joe telling me.

I like the staring contest, but nothing beats Gavin having to get "JS" tattoed on his ass after this:


:thumbsup:

Edit: LOL at Joe saying it's the best day of his life.