Gossip Column: Koon Wagers $2 Million to Run a 10.9-Second 100M Dash; Cantu Challenges Negreanu For His Entire Net Worth & More

Gossip Column: Koon Wagers $2 Million to Run a 10.9-Second 100M Dash; Cantu Challenges Negreanu to a HU Match For His Entire Net Worth & More
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  • Attreyee Khasnabis May 10, 2021
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Things have been blowing up on Twitter these past few days. And one of the proponents causing the social media storm is partypoker pro Jason Koon. The MTT pro was looking to wager $2 Million that he can complete a 100-meter dash in 10.9 seconds. Twitter user David Joseph had a counter-offer to make, claiming the 36-year-old poker pro can’t make that time. Even entrepreneur Bill Perkins chimed in with such much-needed encouragement in the form of a $100,000 freeroll to Koon if he can accomplish the feat by February 2, next year.

GGPoker Ambassador Daniel Negreanu took to the microblogging platform last week to rant about his recent heads-up challenge losses to Doug Polk and Phil Hellmuth. However, what was meant to be an introspective post soon turned into an ugly exchange of words with Brandon Cantu. The latter instigated a heated trash talk session and challenged Kid Poker to a best-of-7 series of heads-up matches to play for Negreanu’s entire net worth. Negreanu is yet to respond to the challenge.

Poker pro Dan Colman, who has been away from the poker scene for some time now, tweeted a PSA to the poker community on May 8, warning everyone that Sean Perry could be a scammer after the latter apparently cheated Colman out of seven figures on a daily fantasy sports wager.

 

Jason Koon Wagers $2 Million to Run a 10.9-Second 100M Dash

It’s been a while since we talked about prop bets, and just as we were getting deeper and deeper into ‘Heads-up Challenges,’ we now have news of a possible prop bet. partypoker Ambassador Jason Koon was looking for betters to take him up on the challenge to complete a 100-meter dash in 10.9 seconds and was willing to bet $2 Million on it.

Jason Koon
Jason Koon

 

It all started when Koon shared a short video of DK Metcalf making his pro-track debut. When asked by PokerGO’s Remko Rinkema how long it would take Koon to accomplish the feat if he gave a year to prep for it, Koon replied that he could run a 100-meter heat in 10.9 seconds.

 

It just snowballed from thereon, with Twitter user David Joseph chipping in to claim that it would be impossible for Koon to achieve the feat and that he was ‘delusional if you think you could run under 11.’

Joseph went on to say that he would bet $5 Million if Koon could run 100 meters in 10.9 seconds.

 

Koon took Joseph’s comments to heart and didn’t back down from the seven-figure prop bet. He fired back with his own offer.

 

Joseph then set the parameters for the bet, which were slightly different from Koon’s original claim. The challenger said he will permit Koon to take one year to win the bet. But if he becomes injured, he loses, and he only gets two tries to achieve the 10.9-second goal.

 

While Koon has not yet responded to Joseph’s offer (when this report was published), he did get a generous nudge from entrepreneur and poker enthusiast Bill Perkins who offered Koon a $100,000 freeroll if he can make the 10.9-second dash by February 2, 2022.

 

Accepting Perkins’ offer, Koon said they would donate the entire money to charity irrespective of who wins the bet.

 

Considering how Koon has experience on the tracks – he was a sprinter in college – given enough training, there is an outside chance that he may just pull this off!

 

Daniel Negreanu Feels the Heat After 3 Back-to-Back Defeats; Brandon Cantu Challenges Kid Poker to Play for His Entire Net Worth

Losing three high-profile heads-up challenges one after the other is enough to rattle the best of players. So, it comes as no shock that after losing his HU matches to Doug Polk and Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu has been feeling the heat.

Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu

 

On May 7, the six-time WSOP bracelet winner took to Twitter to introspect on his recent losses in a rather long Twitter thread.

 

In short, he defended himself a bit by pointing out he had leads much of the way in both matches before higher blinds forced higher-variance play. He credited Hellmuth for his solid play in their second match and said that he’s waiting to play the third round and is happy he still has a chance to win it all back and then some.

Just as Negreanu’s Twitter rant ended, Brandon Cantu, a long-time friend of Hellmuth’s, blasted Negreanu in a series of tweets.

 

Cantu said that Negreanu played horribly against Hellmuth and that his loss in Round 3 of the high Stakes Duel II will finally prove, once and for all, that he just isn’t great playing heads up.

Brandon Cantu
Brandon Cantu

 

Negreanu, for his part, responded that he’s laying 3-to-2 on the last match as he has throughout, and he’s willing to book “as much as you can borrow.”

Cantu responded that nobody could even take Negreanu’s heads-up game seriously at this point, and it was “painful to watch.”

 

The trash talks between the duo escalated quickly, with both Cantu and Negreanu taking potshots at each other.

 

The verbal back-and-forth continued for a while before Cantu finally proposed to “wrangle up some big, big, big money” for his own match with Negreanu, saying he’d play a best-of-7 series under the same structure as “High Stakes Duel.” From there, the ranting got a bit unhinged and hard to follow. Cantu seemed to say he was willing to play for Negreanu’s net worth, hinting that he had backers with unlimited funds.

 

Cantu even went on to say that PokerGo could film their heads-up match, but Negreanu shouldn’t bother to show up unless he had at least $100 Million.

Given the stakes and tall claims, this looks like a challenge that will most likely never see the light of day.

 

Dan Colman Accuses Sean Perry of Fraud

The 2014 Big One for One Drop champion Dan Colman has been missing from the poker circuit for years now. He grabbed the spotlight after making some damning accusations against poker pro Sean Perry, who Colman claims scammed him out of seven figures via a daily fantasy sports wager.

Dan Colman
Dan Colman

 

He tweeted the allegations on May 8.

 

Colman claims he entered a high-stakes daily fantasy sports wager between Perry and fellow poker pro Sam Soverel. He said that since Perry wanted more action, he jumped in on Soverel’s side. The wager was based on the results of six DFS accounts, of which Perry and Soverel each chose three to ride.

Sean Perry
Sean Perry

 

According to Colman, three of the accounts were controlled by Perry, which allegedly gave him an unfair advantage. Colman became suspicious when the accounts chose strange ways to set their lineups. Colman’s suspicion was confirmed by independent observers Aaron Jones and Ryan Daut.

The former poker pro then contacted Perry and showed him the “overwhelming evidence.” He then asked for a refund, but that request was declined. Perry initially agreed to the judgment of an independent arbitrator in the form of Tom Marchese but ultimately declined on the grounds that Colman was only looking for an excuse not to have to pay his debt.

The poker community reacted to the situation by sympathizing with Colman and claiming that Perry was a sketchy character.

 

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