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Tweet Tweet Bad Beat: Brunson Almost Robbed, Failla Wins Swimming Bet and Negreanu Offers Poker Strategy Insight
- Updated: August 16, 2016
There’s a whole lot going on in the world of poker this week. There’s a huge poker tournament at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Florida, the EPT Barcelona is coming up, and the PokerStars WCOOP awaits. Twitter and other social media is used frequently in the world of poker, and not solely to give updates on chip counts and bust-out details. Players list their favorite movies (Ludovich Geilich, Randal Flowers, Matthew Waxman, Adam Levy), debate the United States Presidential election, and share all sorts of other updates. With everything moving so fast, Tweet Tweet Bad Beat, a feature originally featured on our Dutch site is here to keep track.
I Bet You
I Bet You was a show starring Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak where they challenged each other, with a camera team following each and every step they took. Esfandiari or Laak would put together some crazy prop bets with the two of them putting up some big bucks to make it fun to watch and keep score. After two moderately popular seasons, a third season was announced but never happened. Fortunately, all the episodes can still be watched on YouTube (playlist Season 1, Season 2).
Though the show is no longer aired, prop bets aren’t gone from the poker world by any means. In fact, we see prop bets between poker players dominate the mainstream media coverage of our game. Not long ago, Esfandiari was DQ’ed from the PCA after peeing in a bottle, a move he made because his legs were too sore after competing in a $50,000 lunge bet with Bill Perkins.
And while Dan Bilzerian is no longer considered a poker pro by poker players, his bet to cycle from Vegas to LA within 48 hours with Bill Perkins also made headlines when Bilzerian completed the challenge, netting himself a couple hundred thousand dollars in the process.
On a much smaller scale a bet was made this week at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Poker. World Poker Tour Champion Will Failla bet a slate of …
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