It’s probably isn’t much of a stretch to say that Ted Forrest has never met a poker game or a prop bet he couldn’t win. At least not in the last 15 years.
Forrest officially announced himself to the rest of the poker world at the 1993 World Series of Poker. That year Forrest took home three WSOP bracelets in the $1,500 7 Card Razz event, the $1,500 Omaha 8 or better event, and the $5,000 7 Card Stud event. It was another 11 years before Forrest would lay claim to another WSOP bracelet, but he won a ton of money in cash games and other tournaments over that span.
In 2005 Forrest won two more WSOP bracelets in the $1,500 7 Card Stud event and the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event. Since adding those two WSOP bracelets to his collection, Forrest has been racking up wins on the tournament circuits with a win in 2006 National Heads-up Championship, again in the 2007 WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars main event, and a victory on the Professional Poker Tour.
Forrest may have won five WSOP bracelets during his poker career, but he’s only continues to have possession of one of them. Forrest’s first three WSOP bracelets were stolen, and he gave one of his 2005 bracelets to his daughter, while his other 2005 bracelet is safely locked away. In the interests of complete accuracy, however, Forrest is also in possession of another WSOP bracelet that was won by Hamid Dastmalchi. Forrest bought the bracelet after Dastmalchi complained that the bracelets that were supposedly worth $5,000 weren’t anywhere near that valuable, and he would take $1,500 for his. Forrest tossed him three $500 chips and the bracelet changed hands. The moral of the story is watch what you say when Ted Forrest is around.
Forrest has a couple of nicknames in the poker world. He’s known as “Professor Backwards” because he often plays opposite conventional wisdom, and he’s also known as “Spooky” because he sometimes gets insanely lucky and is described as being “spooky good.”
When Forrest isn’t busting people at the poker tables, he’s usually making cash by partaking in a ton of prop bets. Forrest has no fear when it comes to making prop bets. Some of the famous prop bets he has made (and won) include a $10,000 dollar bet that he could perform a standing backflip at the WSOP, drinking 10 beers in 30 minutes, and running a marathon in Las Vegas during the hottest day of the year for $7,000.
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