The prop bets are all the rage among poker players. What is a prop bet? A bet (bet) is on a proposal (prop). It can be anything. Can you quit smoking for 6 months? I give you 2:1 you can't get there. We bet $ 1000 on it. My $ 1000 against your $ 500.
This week, PokerNews posed the question: "the prop bets, are there good or bad for the image of poker and poker in general players"? This question followed the Haseeb Qureshi blog (aka INTERNETPOKERS) issued on Cardrunners in 2 parts entitled "The bet to $ 1 million".
In his blog, Hasseb tells the bet he did with Doug (known as WCGRider) against Ashton Griffin. The bet? $ 300,000 to 3:1 (the 900,000 Ashton against the 300,000 Doug and Hasseb) that Ashton Griffin could not run 70 miles (112 kilometers) in 24 hours. Before launching into this story, Ashton had made promise to his friends that this bet would not affect their friendship, regardless of the outcome. Ashton gave the 3:1, despite the fact that many people claimed it was delirium to run 70 miles in 24 hours. Very few people would be able to do the same.
The challenge was launched and Ashton had already begun to run when his parents learned the news and arrived at the House where Hasseb and Doug was. It is there that the two young men began to understand the magnitude of this bet. As Hassed tells it in his blog, after receiving "crap" of his parents, he began "feeler cheap" as one might say.
-You put the health of your friend in danger to elicit his money!
Run 70 miles in 24 hours is something extremely demanding for any body and can be dangerous. Ashton could injure, fall and break a bone, to a heart attack, etc.
Fortunately in this story, no one was hurt, and Ashton has managed to run 70 miles within the given time. Therefore, he won his bet and $ 300,000. Hasseb tells at the end of his blog that he was ever also felt evil of his life. He had a stupid bet, he had lost a lot of money and could put the life of his friend in danger. In the end, he wondered "bets in this way will sometimes too far"?
Prop bets are often entertaining, but sometimes, they sully the image of the poker and poker players, whose image is often that of young boobies feeding poorly and the pace of life has nothing of saint.
Several months ago, a bet (which never saw the day) had been done on PokerCollectif forums: was offered thousands of dollars to the person who would eat a hot dog full of his excrement. The bet is quite entertaining, but no one knows precisely whether this kind of bet is dangerous or not, if the consequences can be serious.
To return to the question, the prop bets damage the image of poker? Obviously, it must be determined what kinds of prop bets one speaks. Making a bet as "if I make a better performance than you in the Main Event of the WSOP, you give me $ 2000 and if it is the opposite, I give you $ 2000", is nothing unhealthy obviously. But some bets that may endanger the safety of his friends, have enough bad press.
The majority of poker players to pronounce on this issue meet us substantially the same: prop bets are interesting, as long as the life of person is endangered.
I ask you: what kind of idiots paris did you ever? What image have these kinds of bets on poker?
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