Tuesday, May 22, 2007

A Challenge: Ultimate Skills Competition

With only a month until I leave for the WSOP I feel the need to really get my gambling juices flowing. Jared and I have been known to gamble on just about anything we come across. Jared, the lucky SOB, has been running hot in our competitions and has got the better of me more times that I’d like to admit. I’m not a man who chases his losses, but it’s time I got even. With this ultimate skills competition I’m finally going to knock him off his heater and show him who’s the boss here at Poker Dynasty. Here’s how this competition is going to work, if he’s man enough to accept:

We will both come up with a list of competitions where one person does not have a dominating edge over the other. After flipping a coin the winner will select the first challenge from the list. After that challenge is completed the loser will then select the next competition continuing until someone has 4 victories. Here is the list I have come up with so far:

First to 20 RPS match victories
Best of 5 Heads up SNGs
Best of 3 Darts games
Best of 3 pool matches
Hot dog eating contest
19 holes of miniature golf
Best of heads up basketball

The best part is, I’m going to let the Poker Dynasty community select the stakes for this wager. Over the next couple of days I’ll take selections and they will be voted on at the forums. The ultimate skills competition deserves a better prize than just money, so be creative. Keep in mind that we will be at the WSOP all month, so something that can be done there could be very interesting. Anything other than “dress up as X during the main event” will be considered as that’s been done to death.

I fully expect Jared to accept my challenge and am greatly anticipating crushing his hopes and dreams in the competition.


I started a forum thread about this for you guys to post your ideas here:

Ultimate Skills Competition

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about the loser has to engage someone in conversation at the WSOP that they believe to be an online player (shouldnt be too hard to find one) ask them what theyre name is on whichever site. After they tell you, you reply "wait are you serious?" Put you hand over your mouth and begin laughing then just walk away. that would be hilarious mixed in with a bit of danger.

Anonymous said...

This is going to be fun.

Something tells me Jared has the "steriods" to win the hotdog eating comp.

John said...

You need to film the hot dog eating contest and put the loser - the one who hurls - on youtube. Instant classic