March 10, 2020 Poker News, Featured Articles Petr Černý

Matt Glantz offers insane prop bet to contract Coronavirus for $250,000!

Matt Glantz has kicked off a poker Twitter storm by offering to contract the Covid-19 coronavirus for $250k, his bizarre prop bet being met with equal parts horror, amusement and – in typical poker community fashion – a discussion of the odds…

Matt Glantz likes the odds

As almost everyone knows, the Covid-19 virus has already killed several thousand people worldwide, with China and Italy among the worst affected.

Big events have been canceled, including Triton Poker’s Jeju stop, while Kings Casino in Rozvadov has banned Italian players from staying or playing.

Glantz, however, seems to be of the opinion that much of it is media hype and scaremongering…

https://twitter.com/MattGlantz/status/1236033828180897793?s=20

First up in the replies to Glantz’s $250k offer, there were a number who found the whole thing distasteful, not to mention dangerous…

Brill poker

“We have vaccines for some of the worst strains of the flu but we don’t have anything for corona. We are seeing a higher than flu rates of pneumonia. John Hopkins University thinks it’s airborne and the flu is not. You have a greater chance of getting more sick with corona vs flu if we take the current numbers’.

Then there were those who pulled Matt Glantz up for offering to do something for a huge sum of money that may well happen anyway…

https://twitter.com/Dudeoflifepoker/status/1236406719934353411?s=20

Matt Glantz isn’t the only well-known poker player with an interest in the coronavirus, Daniel Negreanu tweeting out a joke that went way over the head of at least one Twitter follower…

Daniel Negreanu poker

Back to Glantz, and it appeared that someone was actually interested in taking him up on the somewhat ghoulish offer, ‘Twitter fight promoter’ EmpireMaker2 stepping up to the plate…

…but what a difference a week makes when it comes to booking bets…

Glantz then ran a Twitter poll asking which was the ‘Bigger risk to the US going forward? Coronavirus or Trump?

…but perhaps we should give the final word to former poker pro Andrew Feldman…

Andrew Feldman poker

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