Poker news tagged with 'bill perkins'

Poker phenom Landon Tice posted an update on his Twitter feed about the conditions for his upcoming heads-up battle against hedge fund manager Bill Perkins.

Read more » Extra Side Bet added to Landon Tice vs Bill Perkins Heads-Up Challenge

What's a poker player's worst nightmare? Losing loads of money of course! and oh, also getting accused of cheating...on the same game.

Bill Perkins and Dan Bilzerian accused Jean-Robert Bellande (JRB) of cheating in a high-stakes home game that the latter hosts, pointing out the highly suspicious fact that JRB also backed 50% of two or more players at the table. This comes even though JRB himself lost over $400,000 that week.

Read more » Bill Perkins, Dan Bilzerian claim Jean-Robert Bellande Cheated in High-Stakes Home Game

In case you haven't read it yet, check out this article on Dan Bilzerian accusing Daniel "Jungleman" Cates of ‘ghosting' in a private online high-stakes poker game hosted by Bill Perkins.

On Wednesday, May 27, the main subject of the scandal, poker pro Daniel "Jungleman" Cates finally confessed, and shared his statement of apology on Twitter.

Read more » Daniel Cates Admits to Cheating in Online Private High-Stakes Poker Game

The infamous Instagram star Dan Bilzerian accused Daniel "Jungleman" Cates of ‘ghosting' along with Sina Taleb in a high-stakes poker game hosted by Bill Perkins.

It all started this sunny morning of Sunday, May 24, when Bill Perkins shook Twitter with a highly interesting story, that a major cheating scandal has occurred, one he believes would make the Mike Postle scandal look trivial in comparison, as this scandal involved famous ‘heroes' of the poker world. However, he did not say exactly who it was.

Read more » Dan Bilzerian points Daniel Cates as Cheater in Bill Perkins' Private High-Stakes Poker Game

Phil Galfond founded his own site with the goal of keeping the online poker dream alive. Over the years, a big part of that dream has been epic high stakes battles for all to witness. With the Galfond Challenge, a series of high stakes heads up matches between Phil and his various challengers, Phil is bringing back the glory days of railing high stakes games.

Read more » Bill Perkins Next in Line for The Galfond Challenge

Great news! Players as well as their backers in partypoker LIVE events can now be protected thanks to a suggestion of Bill Perkins, which has been implemented on Saturday, January 4.

Owner of the popular live streaming channel, the Thirst Lounge, Perkins tweeted on New Year's eve, "If live tournament allowed backers to enter people and collect the cash we would smash registration records. If this can be worked out poker would BOOM again."

Read more » New Feature by partypoker LIVE Protects Players and Backers

It looks like this time there's going to be an all-out war between partypoker and PokerStars in the form of Twitch sponsorship.

Read more » partypoker becomes Official Sponsor of Poker Streaming Site ‘The Thirst Lounge' by Bill Perkins

If you missed the Staples brothers' amazing weight loss journey, here's a refresher:

• Bill Perkins' 1-Year Weight Loss Prop Bet - Jamie and Matt Staples still 30+ Pounds away from winning $150,000

• Jaime Staples just 8 lbs apart from bro Matt as $150K Weight Loss Prop Bet Nears End

• Jaime Staples and Younger Bro Win $150K Weight Loss Prop Bet from Bill Perkins

• Ultimate Sweat Round Two - Jaime and Matt Staples must Reach 9.9% Bodyfat within a Year

Read more » Jaime Staples Dreading to Lose $50,000 in Ultimate Sweat Challenge 2.0

After a year's worth of trying to lose weight and meeting his brother Matt at 188.3 pounds, Jaime Staples has won the weight loss prop bet, and hedge fund manager Bill Perkins was actually happy to part with $150,000 as promised.

Read more » Ultimate Sweat Round Two - Jaime and Matt Staples must Reach 9.9% Bodyfat within a Year

It has finally been a year since poker player and hedge fund manager Bill Perkins challenged Jaime Staples and his brother Matt to a lucrative prop bet - that both brothers need to get within 1 pound bodyweight of each other in one year in order to win $150,000. If they lose, they only have to shell out $3,000.

Read more » Jaime Staples and Younger Bro Win $150K Weight Loss Prop Bet from Bill Perkins

The final week of March 2018 marks the first year since hedge fund manager and poker player Bill Perkins challenged the Staples brothers Jaime and Matt to a prop bet - that both brothers need to get within 1 pound bodyweight of each other in one year in order to win $150,000. If they lose, they only have to shell out $3,000.

Read more » Jaime Staples just 8 lbs apart from bro Matt as $150K Weight Loss Prop Bet Nears End

Hedge fund manager and poker player Bill Perkins is well-known in the poker community as a lover of extreme prop bets, and one of his lucrative schemes this time (which could be one of his best wagers yet) is the one he made with brothers Jaime and Matthew Staples on March 26, 2017 at 5pm. These three people, along with Jeff Gross and a few other friends, hatched the interesting and (probably life-changing for Jaime and Matt) bet just so they could spice up their already baller-like Twitch-streaming on a yacht.

Read more » Bill Perkins' 1-Year Weight Loss Prop Bet - Jaime and Matt Staples still 30+ Pounds away from winning $150,000

If you have had enough of prop bets between Bill Perkins and Dan Bilzerian lately (wherein Dan had to bike from Las Vegas to Los Angeles within 48 hours, which Dan won $600K), then you would be curious to know which one is next on Bill Perkins' list.

Read more » Bill Perkins Challenges Byron Kaverman To Complete $50K Ironman Triathlon

On Monday (April 25), Brian Rast was challenged to repeat Bilzerian's cycling prop bet - he stands to win $600,000 from Bilzerian and Perkins, while only needing to shell out $100,000 of his own money should he fail.

Read more » New Bike Prop Challenge – Dan Bilzerian & Bill Perkins VS Brian Rast

Whether you like him or not, admit it, we ALL are curious to know as to how things will turn out on Dan Bilzerian's latest quirky bet with other fellow high-stakes poker players.

Last month, poker player Bill Perkins slammed a challenge on Dan's Twitter page, saying that for a total of $1.2 million, he could not bike a circuit from the Las Vegas sign in Nevada to his house in LA in under 48 hours, and he has until March 31st to start.

Read more » Dan Bilzerian wins $1.2 Million (and more) on Biking Prop Bet

Here's one of the craziest prop bets in history. According to several news sites, Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, the winner of The Big One for One Drop in 2012 ($18.3 million), has made a bet with millionaire businessman and poker amateur Bill Perkins that he will get $500,000 if he doesn't have sex for 1 year.

The bet followed another prop bet made the same day. That bet was that Esfandiari would get $150,000 from Perkins if he didn't eat bread for a whole year. If he failed, he would have to give $25,000 to Perkins. Now, that bet didn't last for long as Esfandiari asked Perkins after just a few minutes to buy out of the bet - Perkins accepted 90 minutes later for a small fee of $5,000

A total of 166 players entered the $111,111 buy-in One Drop High Roller and created a prize pool of $17,891,148. The final table began during Day 3, but due to time constraints, the last four players had to return for a fourth day.

Bill Perkins 14,700,000
Anthony Gregg 13,900,000
Chris Klodnicki 12,000,000
Antonio Esfandiari 9,200,000

Read more » Anthony Gregg Won Event #47: $111,111 One Drop High Roller ($4,830,619)