Best prop bets you've made

[jokerthief]

I'm interested in hearing some good prop bet stories. Come on, fellow gambleholics I know you've got some good ones! I need to get more into prop bets cause they are so much fun. Give me some ideas, brag about your good beats, mystify us with your cleverness.

My best experience with prop bets was one night when I was in college. I could probably be a professional dart player and I was unbeatable by all of my friends. We would normally only play friendly games where I was partnered with the worst player to make the game fairer.

There was this one guy who was kind of a hanger on type person. The type of guy no one really likes but tolerates. He dealt weed and had a lot of money and always tried to be a big shot. He challenged me to $5 a game of cricket. He was fully aware of my skill level and didn't even ask for odds or a handicap. We play game after game and he keeps wanting to raise the stakes. He didn't beat me one time that night. I walked out with $850 of his money that night. He stayed sober that whole night trying to beat me while I got [censored] faced. I still scratch my head as to what he was thinking. He had never beaten me in the dozens of games we played before the betting. I didn't feel too bad about it, [censored] him and his 3.5 gram bags.

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[EMc]

WE do 5$ coin flips in the parking lot when we are bored. Also have bet on the number of tacos we could eat, tootse pop classic and response time of the fire department.

[Double Down]

Back in college the guys in my improv group would have Wendy's dollar menu eating contests. We would go to Wendy's and have to eat all 10 items on the dollar menu and we would make pools on who could do it, who would do it first, etc. Good times, I'm sure all of our hearts will explode at fifty.

[Tony_P]

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and response time of the fire department.

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When I was in High School we used to set fires right outside the World Trade Center and bet on the response time.

[Big Business]

One of my buddies is a MMA fighter and had to cut weight. He said he could cut 1 pound in no time just by spitting. I bet him he could not fill up a 16oz. glass of spit in 2 minutes...I won, barely.

I have a bet going now that I won't move to Vegas in a year and stay for a year...I plan on collecting on that one.

[DrCool]

A friend of mine and I occasionally bet on simulated games of Madden. We pick the teams and just let the computer play. Nothing big. Just a buck or two a game but we get into it and start yelling at the PS2 and throwing things. Good times. Good times.

[flatline]

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A friend of mine and I occasionally bet on simulated games of Madden. We pick the teams and just let the computer play. Nothing big. Just a buck or two a game but we get into it and start yelling at the PS2 and throwing things. Good times. Good times.

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That's a really good idea for something to bet on. I'll have to try it in the off-season.

[Felipe]

One time at camp... I made this guy drink a glass of BBQ chicken skin, and pepsi, pepper, salt, pickles and vinegar for $2

[Kaeser]

I once had a guy bet me $50 that I couldn't tread water for an hour. This was after navy boot camp where they have a swimming test where you tread water for like 5 minutes. He grew up in the city and didn't realize how much easier it is to tread water when you don't have 100 guys thrashing around next to you pulling you down.

Best part was that he kept adding time and upping the wager. I made $350 for 4 hours work.

[beset]

if you guys enjoy crazy props, you should check out the recent "Crimson Challenges" threads in OOT.

[phiphika1453]

The prop with the most GUARENTEED money, is on the TV reality show SURVIVOR.

On a different forum this guy had a friend who worked for CBS/ABC who ever aired it and his freind would take a sneak preview of the footage and tell us who on the challenges.

It was the easiest [censored] ever...after three episodes of doing this the online sportsbooks finally removed TV reality shows from their prop bet line-up. Oh well i maxed bet the last time and picked up a kool dime.

[Tony_P]

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It was the easiest [censored] ever...after three episodes of doing this the online sportsbooks finally removed TV reality shows from their prop bet line-up.

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really? (http://www.bodog.com/sports-betting/tv-film-movie-props.jsp)

[RR]

When I was in college we had both a 900 number that you could call and see who was goign to win WWF matches and some WWF fans that liked to gamble.

[midfielderdave]

in HS after a tennis match at mcdonalds i bet one of my teammates he wouldn't snort a 2 foot line of salt and pepper through a straw. he did, and i had to buy him the Eve cd. what horrible taste.

[Black Aces 518]

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One of my buddies is a MMA fighter and had to cut weight. He said he could cut 1 pound in no time just by spitting. I bet him he could not fill up a 16oz. glass of spit in 2 minutes...I won, barely.

I have a bet going now that I won't move to Vegas in a year and stay for a year...I plan on collecting on that one.

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Nasty. Should have seen who would take $$ to drink the glass o' spit.

[El Diablo]

I bet $100 on where I went to dinner the night before and won.

[NA_kicker]

Speaking of,

Recently(In Madden), I traded Favre to the Eagles and benched McNabb, then simulated some games. Well, sorry TO, Favre didn't make any difference.

[Annorax]

1k on a game of pinball. I felt like having some fun, so I only played one ball. My opponent was a retard, so it wasn't even that tough for me to beat him.

Had to beat him up to get my money, though.

[Superfluous Man]

Last week, I won a bit of money betting on the existence of a topology theorem known as the "Hairy Ball Theorem." That same night, I also won a bet concerning whether or not the word "sweet" appears in the Guns n Roses song "November Rain."

Oh, I also used to get people to give me 40:1 odds on hitting a half-court shot in basketball. That's always fun.

[B00T]

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A friend of mine and I occasionally bet on simulated games of Madden. We pick the teams and just let the computer play. Nothing big. Just a buck or two a game but we get into it and start yelling at the PS2 and throwing things. Good times. Good times.

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Me and my friends did this with NHL on Genesis. We each would put up a dollar and take either home or visitor. The demo would appear with random teams and first goal scored took the $2.

The best was the premature celebration if you got a good teamand the "upsets" that would happen.

[neorab]

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1k on a game of pinball. I felt like having some fun, so I only played one ball. My opponent was a retard, so it wasn't even that tough for me to beat him.

Had to beat him up to get my money, though.

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Every night after work we held the Mall Parking Lot Series of Pinball. My friend and I from pizza hut, one guy from sizzler and one guy who worked in the arcade. Everyone put in 10 bucks, winner takes all. They had 5 pinball games so we placed this wager on every game. I made more playing video games than i did working while I was at pizza hut. Tekken tournaments, shooting game tournaments, head-up skee-ball, everyone I worked with smoked alot of meth and wanted to gamble.

Thinking about it makes me said i left for college.

[loubal1005]

A friend of mine just bet me $100 that he can throw a football over and clear a 5 story building. He can throw a football 65 yards on a footbal field. Do you guys think it's possible.

[JasonKGB]

One time, a friend of mine got set up on a blind date. Two other friends made a bet (probably 10 or so) about how a fourth friend would rate a picture of said date on a scale of 1-10.

[Aces McGee]

I won $70 betting on a friend's hookup.

-McGee

[Landon_McFly]

Me and my roommate hustle this chump once a week at the putt-putt golf course. We play skins, $3 a hole. Me and my roommate secretly team up to screw the other guy whenever it looks like there's going to be a carryover.

For instance, one time the mark was playing good, and we had 4 carry overs [$36 in the pot so far] The mark accidently hit it off the course on a par 2. My roommate hit it within 3 feet of the hole on the first stroke. So what do I do? I accidently (purposefully) hit it OB. The mark was shocked. I flipped the script on him though and told him that he cost me the hole, and that he shoul've tied my roommate for another carryover.

He's the biggest sucker EVER.

One time we were making fun of each other and I told him to go home to listen to his Ace of Base cd, and he laughed it off and said "Walk Like an Egyptian". I said "huh?" He tried to tell me they sung the song. I promptly bet him $75 he was wrong, and off to the CD store we went so I prove how stupid he was.

He also bet me $50 once that he could beat me heads-up 8 out of 10 times. He was talking [censored] before we got started, but when I started going all-in every hand he was pissed.

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This guy is the biggest sucker ever.

If only he had more money.

He still plays Putt-putt with us once a week for $3 a hole though.

Some people never learn.

[dietlime]

In high school I bet a friend a buck he wouldn't eat gum from under a desk. Another time it was a cookie from the floor of the bus. Lost both bets but it was worth it.

[midfielderdave]

the official criteria for this is: 1 gallon whole milk, drink it in an hour and keep it in your stomach for an hour. no going to the bathroom until those 2 hours are over.
has anyone ever done it before?
i tried it with 3 friends and they all threw up after finishing just 3/4 of it and we only used 1% milk. i quit because i didn't feel like hurling.
technically, i drank the most and didn't throw up, so who won? it wasn't for money so it didn't matter anyway.

[smoore]

Since it's degraded into dumbasses that will eat/drink whatever for money:

We had one of those guys at a brewpub where I worked. This guy would drink a pint glass of just about anything as long as it was half beer and half food products. No bugs, spit or anything. $1-5 depending on contents. Strange.

One day the bottling supervisor gathered up $20 and got this nutty bastard to submerge himself, to the neck, in the used fryolator grease from the kitchen. He didn't get a shift beer at the bar that day but he did get the $20.

[AndysDaddy]

I have a bet with my buddy that Dennis Rodman will have neither died nor filed for banckrupcy by January 1, 2011. Only five years to go!
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Scott

[jedi]

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I bet $100 on where I went to dinner the night before and won.

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Who the hell took that bet with you?

[paco]

You could do some algebra probably adn figure it out.

[PocketJokers72]

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A friend of mine just bet me $100 that he can throw a football over and clear a 5 story building. He can throw a football 65 yards on a footbal field. Do you guys think it's possible.

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Football vs. 5 story building

Take the bet. Footballs create some lift when they fly. Creating lift without continual thrust moving upwards against gravity is unpossible.

65 yards across the axis of gravity is much easier than 5 stories(70ft approx) into to the axis of gravity. Not to mention part of his bet is that it would clear the entire building, this implies that it must come back down over the other side. Very tough to do over a 3 story structure like a house, much less a 5 story building.

i.e. I can throw a baseball from centerfield to homeplate, but I cant throw it 1/3 that distance straight up.

Gravity! It's not just a good idea...it's the Law!

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

Prop bets that stick out in my mind:

I once bet MINETZ (poster) $10 getting 10:1 that I could run from where we were driving home before he got there in his car b/c traffic was bad which was about 3 miles. I made it in about 28 minutes but he made it in about 16. =(

High carded someone for $100 last week.

Bet the laziest professional poker player I know $100 that he couldn't play 35000 hands in a month.

Oh, I lost all of these.

-Craig

[StacysMom]

goblin mason is easy money on virtually all prop/who is right bets.

I think im running at 2:1.

[TRHScc814]

Unusual things I have bet on:
Physics Tests: 10 dollars a test, with spread Me -9.5 (150 point tests)
Accounting final: $20 that I could do better than my cousin without using a calculator.
History: $5 that Aaron Burr was Thomas Jefferson's VP.
Video Games: $1 / kill at Goldeneye
$5 a race at Mario Kart

[Koss]

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A friend of mine just bet me $100 that he can throw a football over and clear a 5 story building. He can throw a football 65 yards on a footbal field. Do you guys think it's possible.

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I would attempt this yourself to try and get an idea for the relative difficulty of the throw, and decide from there.

[Justin A]

I bet BicycleKick $100 that he wouldn't come to Vegas a couple months ago and I won.

We were playing a home game at Gabe's, and the game was Padooki. AndyFox is busy capping the flop and turn, standing pat both times. Josh W offers to bet me $100 that Andy has no better than a KQ padooki. I take the bet and Andy has a 6 Padooki.

Betting on Tiger Woods golf is also very fun. It's best to use the Stabelford scoring system and bet however much per point.

[Justin A]

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I bet $100 on where I went to dinner the night before and won.

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Haven't you also won a who has the most cash on them bet?

[orentha]

I bet a buddy it wouldn't snow and stick on the ground for a full week before Thanksgiving. I live in N. Idaho but it usually doesn't snow before xmas. Bet was $5. I ended up winning, but barely, it snowed on thanksgiving, and has stuck every since...

I bet another guy i used to work with $10 that he couldn't drink a gallon of OJ in 2 min. Lost it, he drank it in about 1.5 min...

That one was well worth it too !

[DCWildcat]

I've made $75 on various food consumption prop bets, over/under. Evidently, I'm really good at estimating how many tacos people can eat.

[ColdCaller]

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I bet $100 on where I went to dinner the night before and won.

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Haven't you also won a who has the most cash on them bet?

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Big wallet is one of my favorite prop bets.

[KillerPony]

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One of my buddies is a MMA fighter and had to cut weight. He said he could cut 1 pound in no time just by spitting. I bet him he could not fill up a 16oz. glass of spit in 2 minutes...I won, barely.

I have a bet going now that I won't move to Vegas in a year and stay for a year...I plan on collecting on that one.

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so about the losing a pound in no time by spitting... is that possible?

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

I bet stacysmom $20 last night that I could run a faster mile than him if he gave me a 1 minute headstart. After stripping down to boxers and tshirts, climbing a few fences to use the local HS track with snow on the ground, I won by about 20 yards. Stacysmom almost passed out, started throwing up, and couldn't walk home; we almost took him to the ER.

I would've felt bad about taking his $20, but right before the race stacysmom shotgunned that "injuries are fair game."

-Craig

[johnnybeef]

The last time I was in Vegas, Irieguy and I were hanging out with one of his stripper friends up at Tangerine at TI. It was pretty late so all three of us were tortured. For some reason which I can no longer recall, we left Tangerine and started hanging out in front of Kahunaville (which for those of you who don't know anything about TI is at the totally opposite end of the casino.) Down there, I notice a smokin hot chick walking our way. I nudged Irie on the shoulder, and told him to check her out. In his drunken state, he tells me that there is no way in hell that she would ever talk to me, and that there was $100 for me if I could get her to say five words to me (which is ironic since every female he has introduced me to absolutely loves me.) So I pull a $20 bill out of my pocket and I go up to her and tell her to put it into a slot machine for me, and I'll let her keep the profit if she hits. She acts kind of confused, but goes with it, and asks me a question. Upon hearing this Irie comes up to us, and gives me the $100. I proceed to grab the $20 bill out of her hand, and walk away. I fealt kinda bad for using the tactics that I did, so we decide to put the $100 on the don't pass line at a craps table, and split the winnings if we hit. To make a long story short, the dude hit, and Irie was left -$100, and I was left with an amusing anecdote.

[Christmas Steve]

Near Santa Clara University (California) is/was a franchise of Cluck U. Chicken http://www.cluckuchicken.com/. The store used to have a contest: eat 1 dozen of its hottest buffalo wings, the "Global Thermonuclear" level, within 10 minutes; during this time, the contestant was not allowed to drink anything, nor even to use napkins to wipe his face or hands. Furthermore, the contestant had to keep everything down for five whole minutes after finishing the wings, again without taking a drink or wiping off the sauce. For this feat of gastrointestinal fortitude, the valiant successful contestant would win...a T-shirt!

In 1995, I was working in downtown San Jose, when mention of this contest as a collegiate rite of passage was mentioned one day at lunch with my colleagues. I worked the conversation around so that I was challenged to do this contest, but I demanded, and got, 20:1 odds on the event (not being merely satisfied with pride & a T-shirt!). 10 people bet me $20 each, and all I had at risk was the $10 it cost to purchase the wings. Finally, we picked the following Friday to hold the contest, as we could take a longer lunch on Fridays.

This was possibly the most painful experience of my life.

These wings were coated with what tasted like raw, undiluted cayenne sauce. By the second wing, tears were openly streaming down my face. I wiped a lock of hair (back when I HAD hair) out of my eyes, and a stray bit of sauce on my wrist left a trail of fire on my forehead that I felt two days later.

I managed to hold on and finish the wings, and even suffer through the five minute waiting period, much to the amazement of the 10 bettors and the at least 15 other people from our office who came to laugh at the proceedings. My main motivation, of course, was the cash, which I insisted everyone pony up on the table in front of me before beginning. Knowing that much pain was going to be involved, I definitely didn't want to worry about collecting.

I finally completed the bet and collected the pot, to much laughter and applause, and washed up. We drove back to the office, with people still congratulating me (and shaking their heads). I smiled, and shook everyone's hand.

Of course, I then went into the most isolated restroom I could find, and lost that lunch as quickly as possible. It felt like my entire alimentary canal was painted in neon, from lips to as****e. I scrubbed my hands like Macbeth's wife for 15 solid minutes, but I could still feel the hot sauce IN my skin. I ended up leaving my contact lenses in for three straight days, for fear I'd contaminate them and hurt my eyes.

Was it worth it? $200 for 15 minutes work isn't a bad score, minus the $5 I quickly shelled out for the economy size Pepto-Bismol. I suppose the real measurement is, would I take that wager again for similar stakes, or even higher stakes?

The answer to that one, is HELL no! /images/graemlins/crazy.gif