bwin Betting

Mankind has been known to do some extreme things all in the name of betting.  A swift payday can picture some weird scenarios ever to be witnessed in recent history.  Let’s take a quick look these odd wagers that will sure to leave you puzzled.

Brian Zembic is a relatively well known blackjack and backgammon player and he has two interesting tales to share.  For the amount of $15,000, he lived inside a bathroom for a whole entire month.  You probably are going, piece of cake, right?  Yes, it is compared to the second bet he won.  For $100,000, he had breast implant surgery, with the implantation of the implants, and could not remove them for a year.  If that’s not weird enough for you, after a year Brian himself decided to keep!  Check out his appearance on the Man Show to get proof.  I won’t post the video here to give you guys the choice to look it up.

If you think living in a bathroom and getting permanent breast implants is plain deviant, how about betting on your own death?  Doyle Brunson, poker prodigy, heard through the grapevine of an editorial written by Mark Rawden entitled “100 Most Likely To Die in 2009” where Brunson ranked #16 on the list, with even 10% expiring before the end of the year.  Being the gambler that he is, Brunson decided to make a bet with Rawden for $1,000, specifically at odds of 10-1, which stated if Brunson departed that year the writer would obtain $10,000.  The best thing about the bet is whoever wins; all proceeds will go to charitable trust.  We still have a couple of months, so we’ll see what happens.

Now here’s a funny one; the bet made between a retired pitcher and Twin announcer Bert Blyeven and then-Twins’ Cy Young endearing pitcher Johan Santana.  Blyeven s made a bet with Santana that he couldn’t pitch a shutout during that day’s game where they were up against the team of the New York Mets with the game broadcaster having to shear his head should the game’s most prominent pitcher be able to accomplish the shutout.  Johan obviously wanted to succeed on the bet because he pitched an outstanding four hit shutout resulting to a final score of nine-zero with Blyeven shaving his head.

Now, here’s something that’s just dumb.  A man named Mathew Dumbrell placed a bet with odds of 1,000,000 to 1 that the world would finally come to an end prior to the year 2000.  How did he honestly plan to be paid if the world had come to an prior to the year 2000? Crazy, absurd, and unethical bet if you ask me.

If stupidity will not get you anywhere, arrogance will surely lead you to one place – death.  It was in 1875 that Matthew Webb achieved the feat of being the very first man to successfully swim all the way across the marvellous English Channel.  Fame got into his head and he decided to make a bet for $10,000 that he would succeed in crossing the whirlpool at the base floor of the Niagara Falls.  He succeeded mid-way through it, prior to going under and passing away in front 10,000 people.  Sad story.

Whether it’s for serious or for fun, enjoyment in participating in bet lies on it rewards.  No bet is too good for us to risk our lives, and no bet is bad for us not to have some fun.