Betting is a popular form of entertainment. People try their faith and luck by placing the bets on the sports, most often. However, in a matter of time, this activity has transformed into a versatile occupation, in which people can win money by placing the most unusual bets. Find more articles and news on the GBC Time website.
Sports betting implies placing the bets on the team, athletes, outcome of the match, and many other options. Most often people bet on their favorite team members based on the experts’ predictions and odds.
What if people want to try their luck, but sports are not interesting? The betting storyline has many examples of people who won their bets on very unusual events and competitions. GBC Time has prepared the list of top 5 ridiculous bets.
The $10 000 Burger Challenge
Howard Lederer is one of the most popular poker players of all time. He has won extremely large winnings in the leading poker tournaments and events. However, poker was not the only hobby he had. The professional player was quite overweight and his doctors insisted on a gastric band. Later, the player might become a vegan not to die. Lederer went through the treatment and lost weight.
Later his friend decided to bet $10 000 a poker player could not eat a cheeseburger. A poker player eat it and won $10 000.
Gambling Against Cancer
Jon Matthews was diagnosed with cancer, but he did not see it as tragical as many people do. His doctors predicted that he could live 5 months more. He decided to live more time and win money for staying alive. For the first time, he won $8 300. The next year, his winning was also $8 300. But the third year was not as lucky as it was before. Matthews died in May 2010.
Branson’s Drag Bet
A Virgin Airlines owner – Richard Branson bet on the Virgin Racing team would reach the bigger success than the Lotus Racing team in Formula One season. The prize was to watch the opponent work 1 day for the air company and dress for 2 days.
As the result, Virgin held 12th place and Lotus – 10th. Branson lost this bet and worked for AirAsia in female clothes.
Man Loses His Wife In A Card Game
Card games sometimes capture too much attention and cause high excitement among the players. One day, two friends in Russia, Andrei Karpov, and Sergei Brodov were playing poker. But as a result, Andrey could not raise money. Then Andrei decided to place his wife, whom he also lost. His wife Tatyana was so angry that she divorced Andrei. Although it was Tatyana who became the winner in this game when she realized that Sergei would be an excellent husband for her, even though he won her at cards.
The Breast Bet
This bet was not the first “weird” for Brian Zembic. He managed to win at the most unusual rates. Once he lived in a box for a week to win $25 000. Another dispute between friends Jobo and Zembik bet that Zembik would not be able to put round implants and walk with them for a year. However, Zembic won the bet, but in an unusual way and with a bit of trickery.
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