Starting this weekend, I’ll be posting several entries that share stories of my six-year relationships with Ted Forrest and Mike Matusow. The unifying feature of this stories is how, for me, the events at the end of their historic $2 million weight-loss proposition bet, were deja vu. It was almost as if this unique and ...
After dinner and drinks at the Commerce in May, Ted Forrest, Mike Matusow, and Justin Smith outlined the terms of a weight-loss prop bet destined to upstage the Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker. The $2 million wager, which required Forrest to lose nearly 50 pounds in less than 2 ½ months, ...
ENDGAME NOTES In just a couple of hours, Ted Forrest will likely put an exclamation-point ending on one of the most remarkable bets in the history of gambling. Forrest is about to weigh himself for ESPN cameras, Mike Matusow, and Justin Smith. If his weight is 139.9 or less, Matusow and Smith have to pay him ...
Monday, May 31, Memorial Day. Routine day at the World Series of Poker. Productive, but routine. Kept up with the Players Championship; Andy Bloch made the money but not the Final Table so I won’t get to watch him playing on his birthday for the bracelet. Oppenheim, Juanda, and Schulman still in. Worked on my posts about ...