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The World Series of Poker is days away from starting up at the Rio and the oddsmakers are prepped and ready after doling out numerous prop bets this week. Poker props are always a tough pick because no matter how good a poker player he (or she) may be, they’re always just one bad beat away from getting eliminated.

That being said there are a few prop bets outs there that look like easy marks. The usually brilliant Bodog oddsmakers are offering a prop on whether or not one player will walk away with two WSOP bracelets this year. The simple answer is, of course there will be a double bracelet winner. There are 55 events this year and the odds on at least one poker pro chewing up two tourneys is pretty damn good. Last year there were two double bracelet winners, as Williams Chen and Jeff Madsen both had a bracelet on their right and left wrist.

The more difficult prop at Bodog is whether or not someone will hit the motherlode and win three bracelets. Madsen had a chance last year because he made four final tables. Poker brat Phil Hellmuth also sat in on four final tables, but only walked away with one bracelet. Coincidentally Hellmuth is one of only three players to win three WSOP bracelets in the same year, but another Phil – Phil Ivey – was the last player to do it in, back in 2002.

Another great Hellmuth prop involves some select company that are all going for a record-setting 11th WSOP bracelet. Hellmuth, Johnny Chan and the great Doyle Brunson all have 10 WSOP bracelets to their name, and a prop at Bodog asks you to guess which one will take home No. 11 first. Hellmuth was the only one in the trio to win a bracelet last year and he’s the favorite at 3/1. Chan and Brunson haven’t won some WSOP bling since 2005 and Chan is favored over the legend at 5/1, compared to Brunson’s 8/1. The best scenario would have all three of them at the final table in the same event, but the odds of that happening are probably impossible to calculate.

WSOP odds and props at Bodog!

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