Poker news tagged with 'matt staples'

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

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