In
gambling, a proposition bet (also called a prop bet, prop, or exotic) is a bet made on an outcome or a proposition. These can be anything from statistics and happenstance in a regular game to personal, one-of-a-kind bets. Examples of the former include betting on which team scores first in a match, or which cards are drawn in
poker. An example of a one-of-a-kind bet was
David Grey betting
Howard "The Professor" Lederer, a
vegetarian due to gastric bypass surgery, $10,000 that he wouldn't eat a
cheeseburger. (Lederer ate the cheeseburger, and won.)
Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston wrote about some of the most famous prop bets in history in his 2003 book, Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People (ISBN 0060762306).
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