Calling the Clock: Holz & Selbst Hit With Bracelet Bet Losses; Negreanu Not Happy With Ferguson, and More

In this week’s Calling the Clock we bring you news of six-figure bracelet bet losses from two of the games biggest stars; news of online poker bill progress in California and New York, and much more.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is pointy party hat time for professional poker players. It can also be an overflowing garbage can of the wrong type of emotion. It can be the birthplace of legacy and a place where livelihoods are sent heading to the sirens of mermaids.

Very often, the action on the poker tables pales into insignificance compared to the side action off it. Hundreds, sometimes millions, of dollars end up in someone’s little green book with only spit and a handshake acting as bond.

Earlier this week, details emerged of one such handshake between Jason Mercier and Vanessa Selbst. After Mercier had won his fourth bracelet in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, he told PokerNews that the victory earned him more through side bets than the $273,335 first prize. Later in that interview he also revealed that Selbst had offered him odds of 180:1 that he wouldn’t win three bracelets this summer. Mercier wagered $10,000 that he would.

Calling the Clock: Holz & Selbst Hit With Bracelet Bet Losses; Negreanu Not Happy With Ferguson, and More

In this week’s Calling the Clock we bring you news of six-figure bracelet bet losses from two of the games biggest stars; news of online poker bill progress in California and New York, and much more.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is pointy party hat time for professional poker players. It can also be an overflowing garbage can of the wrong type of emotion. It can be the birthplace of legacy and a place where livelihoods are sent heading to the sirens of mermaids.

Very often, the action on the poker tables pales into insignificance compared to the side action off it. Hundreds, sometimes millions, of dollars end up in someone’s little green book with only spit and a handshake acting as bond.

Earlier this week, details emerged of one such handshake between Jason Mercier and Vanessa Selbst. After Mercier had won his fourth bracelet in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, he told PokerNews that the victory earned him more through side bets than the $273,335 first prize. Later in that interview he also revealed that Selbst had offered him odds of 180:1 that he wouldn’t win three bracelets this summer. Mercier wagered $10,000 that he would.