Wild WSOP Prop Bet #5: Somebody from Justin Bonomo’s condo will win a WSOP gold bracelet

With over 72,000 people participating in the WSOP this year, it would seem crazy to issue a bet claiming somebody from your condo complex would win a gold bracelet; after all, there are only 57 tournaments. However, Justin Bonomo was more than willing to make this bet as he accepted 10-1 odds on somebody from Las Vegas’ Panorama Towers condo winning a bracelet. The bet actually isn’t a bad idea either when you consider that over 60 pros including Barry Greenstein, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, David Williams, Brock Parker, Liv Boeree, and Nenad Medic live at Panorama Towers. But even with all of these great players, none of them brought a bracelet back to Panorama Towers.

Wild WSOP Prop Bet #4: Ted Forrest needs to drop 50 pounds to earn $1 million

This bet didn’t have anything to do with the actual cards, but rather something that nearly everybody has on their mind: weight loss. In early May, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow bet Ted Forrest $150,000 that he couldn’t drop from 188 pounds down to 139 pounds by September 24^th. What’s more is that Matusow offered Forrest $1 million if he could lose the weight in the midst of the WSOP on July 15^th. Amazingly, Forrest stepped onto the scales on July 13^th and saw 138 pounds staring back at him. In just over two months, Forrest had dropped the weight and earned the million dollars.

Wild WSOP Prop Bet #3: Andy Bloch attempts to eat 24 cupcakes for $25,000

Howard Lederer already knows a thing or two about making big prop bets regarding food as evidenced by the cheeseburger he ate for $10k – thus ruining his vegan status. So Lederer decided to get involved in yet another food prop wager when he bet Andy Bloch that he couldn’t eat 24 gourmet cupcakes in 90 minutes. What made the wager even more interesting was that Bloch was trying to play a $5,000 Shootout event at the same time. Unfortunately, juggling the cupcakes and a WSOP tournament was too much for Bloch and he quit after just 6 cupcakes.

Wild WSOP Prop Bet #2: Phil Ivey bets $5 million that he can win two gold bracelets in three years

Lederer must have been pretty bored at this year’s WSOP since he got involved in yet another high-profile prop bet. This one was made with arguably the world’s greatest all-around poker player in Phil Ivey; Lederer bet Ivey $5 million that he couldn’t win 2 gold bracelets in a three year span. Those who have followed Ivey’s career know that this probably isn’t the man to bet against since he has already won 7 bracelets, and is the all-time leader in tournament winnings with over $13,100,000. Making things worse is that Phil Ivey won his 8^th bracelet ($3,000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament) this year meaning he has 2 years to win one more bracelet.

Wild WSOP Prop Bet #1: Tom Dwan playing for his first WSOP bracelet and around $12.5 million

As strange as it seems, the world’s largest poker event is somehow beneath internet sensation Tom Dwan. After all, Dwan plays for millions of dollars each week at the absolute highest online poker stakes. In multiple occasions, Dwan has been involved in hands worth over $500,000! Seeing as how most WSOP tournaments don’t even offer this much for a first place prize, Dwan hasn’t played in the WSOP much; subsequently, he doesn’t have a bracelet either. 

But this year Dwan took the WSOP seriously because he had accepted numerous prop bets against him winning a bracelet. Several estimations claimed that Tom Dwan stood to win around $12.5 million if he earned a bracelet. Dwan’s big chance to win the prop wager came in Event #11 where he maneuvered through a 2,563-player field to meet Simon Watt in heads-up play. Sadly for Dwan, Watt defeated him, and Dwan failed to make any other deep tournament runs thus costing him millions of dollars.