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I have heard of these bets made by and amongst pro gamblers like, 1. paying Howard Lederer, who is a vegan $10K to eat a cheeseburger. 2. betting that John Hennigan couldn't live a month in Des Moines, Iowa.
I don't get it, these seem to me easy ways to make money, I doubt it was that hard for Lederer even after years of being a vegan to eat a cheeseburger for TEN GRAND. Is it really worth ten grand to the people that made the bet to have hennigan live in Iowa for a month?
Thoughts?

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You realize that $10K is just under 1BB in the big game?

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10K probably is not huge huge money to hennigan. i suppose anyone would live in iowa for a month if the price was right. i could see living in iowa without a car being pretty tough. but with a car and stuff probably not so bad.

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This just in: wealthy people sometimes spend money frivolously!

After the break: water wet, sky blue.

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you got it. you'll get paid upon your return.

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Any serious runner should be able to run a mile in 4.30 ... the world record is 3.43! And 26 x 4 1/2 = 1h 57m which is under the marathon record.

He'd lose if he offered that bet to anyone who was genuinely an athlete.

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For 10 grand, I'd live in downtown Baghdad for a month wearing I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] GW Bush t-shirts everyday.

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That's because you are poor.
-James

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Any serious runner should be able to run a mile in 4.30 ... the world record is 3.43! And 26 x 4 1/2 = 1h 57m which is under the marathon record.

He'd lose if he offered that bet to anyone who was genuinely an athlete.

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If you believe this you are very naive.

EDIT: Huck Seed once accepted a bet that he could not run a 4:30 mile with a year of training. He ran 4:36. That is both impressive and a lot farther from 4:30 than you think.

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I read a long time ago that Huck Seed lost the Des Moines bet. This was in the days before internet gaming, and he was starving for action.

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IOWA [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]


life is too short.

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at least it wasn't...well...MINNESOTA lol.

Barron

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Brian Zembic, the man who cashed in on a $100,000 dare by getting breast implants for a year, made a bet with Gus Hansen.

“I bet poker champ Gus Hansen $10K he couldn’t beat the marathon record over 26 days. He had to run 16 100-meter dashes a day, at like, 16 seconds each. Gus is an athlete, but after a day he decided it was too hard and settled for $3K.”

http://www.maximonline.com/grit/arti...icle_6641.html

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That's really, really, really, really pathetic.

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Careful now, Zembic is a noted 2+2er.