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Poker players are well known to bet on most bizarre things one could imagine. Earlier this year, Matt “hazards21″ Giannetti , a tournament poker regular, won upwards of $20,000 for spending 12 hours in a hotel pool. 1996 World Series of Poker main event winner Huck Seed once lost $50,000 for trying and failing to spend 18 hours in the ocean outside of an Atlantic City casino. Seed gave up after 3 hours. Howard Lederer, a vegetarian, once won $10,000 for simply eating a cheeseburger.

New prop bet began last week in Bellagio, where local poker pro Jay Kwik has promised to spend 30 consecutive days in a bathroom. Bathroom has some kitchen-equipments and a tv. However, Jay Kwik is not allowed to use a computer, and he can use cellphone for only 400 minutes in 30 day period.

There’s a live webcam outside the bathroom, and anyone who spots Jay breaking the rules, will be paid $500 reward.

Source: Cardplayer-magazine

This doesn’t have anything to do with biz or anything, but because i like gambling and all casino related movies, i am gonna mention it here anyway.

Most of you have probably heard of legendary MIT blackjack team who beat casinos at blackjack world wide. The origin of MIT blackjack team was a MIT minicourse called “How to Gamble if you Must”, which taught basic blackjack strategy and cardcounting methods. The team and its successors operated from 1979 through the beginning of 21st century. Estimations how much group[s] made money are somewhere between $1 million to $10 million.

Now there is Hollywood movie coming out, titled “21″, which dramatises ups and downs of MIT blackjack team. The movie is based on bestselling book “Bringing Down the House” by Ben Mezrich and stars actors like Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne. Movie premiere is set to late March 2008.

IMDB “21″

Wikipedia:MIT_Blackjack_Team