In a post a few weeks ago, we covered the random but amusing bet that was made between Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan during a game on the popular poker program “High Stakes Poker”. Dwan bet Ivey one million US dollars that he couldn’t be a vegetarian for a year and Ivey obliged saying that he was looking to go vegetarian anyway and this would be an added incentive. Well, it seems the ‘chicken may have come home to roost’ for Dwan, as Ivey recently realised that there was no way he could go for a year without eating chicken.

Poker Magazine Ace reported that Ivey realised he couldn’t go without chicken for a whole year when he was entertaining friends recently. He picked up a piece of chicken and wanted to eat it so badly that he immediately called Dwan and said he wanted to buy the bet out. Dwan was cool with it and they settled the bet for $150,000.

Is it just me or is $1 million dollars a lot of money as well as a huge incentive? I’d go fruitarian for a year if it meant I got $1 million dollars at the end of it. Come on Phil!

A rivalry that has been on hold since last year was resumed recently when mystery poker phenomenon Isildur1 and US poker pro Brian Hastings met to play in an $500/$1,000 pot limit Omaha grudge match that was spread across six tables and 2,776 hands.

Brian Hastings won $4 million from Isildur1 late last year but his win was tainted by allegations that he had been using player notes taken by his buddy and Full Tilt Red Pro, Brian Townsend, on the faceless Swede. This recent game was seen as a chance for Isildur1 to restore justice.

Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on whose camp you’re in, there was no scandal this time and Hastings won yet again with Isildur1 paying out a jaw-stopping $1,445,177 to Hastings. This defeat is rumoured to have cleaned Isuldur1 out, again.

            I'll not eat this cat for $1 million

You’d expect poker to be the biggest entertainer on shows like High Stakes Poker, but history has showed that this is not always the case. It certainly wasn’t on the Saturday night episode, where an interesting bet was made between Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan. Dwan bet Ivey that Ivey wouldn’t be able to resist eating meat for an entire year.

After lengthy discussions and negotiations between the 2 players, Ivey agreed to the bet. If he avoided all meat, including fish, for a year he’d get $1 million from Dwan. Later on, Ivey seemed happy with the deal, saying to co-host Kara Scott: “I was thinking about doing it for a while, so this is kind of like an added incentive.”

This particular High Stakes Poker episode was filmed a few days after Ivey finished in 7^th place at the WSOP main event final table and had won millions in side bets, including $1 million from Dwan. Do I detect some revenge in the air?

“I’m used to having million-dollar sweats with you,” Dwan said in response to losing $1 million in the game and the subsequent bet with Ivey.

Ivey even tried to wager the bet up to $2 million which he felt would have given him an even bigger incentive to give up meat for 365 days.

Dwan has since claimed that Ivey is not getting vaguely close to fulfilling his side of the bet- Dwan reportedly mentioned to Sammy George that Ivey was already trying to buy out of the bet.

Perhaps if Ivey borrowed some of Mel Gibson’s cow brain goo for his poker games he’d stay on top without having to eat meat.