He knew he was drawing dead before he started. Just putting on a show for the fans.

We done been duped fellas.
This was never a legit BIG MONEY bet from the get go.

Maybe the bet was real but then hype took over and amounts got inflated.

How much water can you drink in 36 hours? I'm sure McDonalds sells overpriced bottled water.

Edit: drinks don't count. He is drawing dead.

I think all along it was a what can we do to draw attention to this charity effort. Betting and losing $1k and getting thousands of dollars worth of attention for a charity is a win in their books.

you'd prob get water poisoning anyway

You need mental toughness too, this guy seems like a pussy.

Watch one of LA beasts videos, when he does his challenges he goes into this beast mode zone of focus. You pretty much have to with these sort of things.

I estimated $1000 in McD food was about 42 pounds which made the bet impossible to win from the start.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jan...cal/me-water14

Mental toughness would be important, of course, but importanter (huehh) would be a bet which is actually remotely physically possible to complete . LA beast could not complete this bet. No one could. Literally no person on earth. Not LA beast, not Joey Chestnut, not Matt Stonie, not Bearmeetsfood. No one.

I'm not saying this is what happened... but if you're suggesting that the whole thing might have been a charade for the purpose of getting money into a GoFundMe account, then that sounds more like a scam.

They give the name of the guy who is in charge of the money, he makes a yearly trip to vietnam to provide food/clothes/whatever.

I don't think promoting that is a scam

i.e. going exactly as 95% thought it would

noori's pathetic attempt at this bet has annoyed me and now i believe i've gotten to the bottom of this ******ed bet and i believe it's evolved into a form of a grift with a charitable angle.

here's the timeline i've come up with. this is 100% speculation but i'd bet a nickel i'm pretty close.

1. noori and savage come up with this prop bet. noori is drunk, stoned, or stupid and believes he can really do it.

2. noori does the most basic amount of research and realizes he has no chance. by the time he does this research, the bet has garnered a medium amount of attention via twitter from the extremely bored poker community.

3. noori somehow arrives on the idea to capitalize on this attention from the poker community by soliciting donations for his buddy phong "turbo" nguyen, who apparently makes a pilgrimage to vietnam every year to do some kind of charitable donating.

4. over 12,000 poured in from 36 different donations which forced noori to follow through with attempting the bet and executing the ******ed ideas he initially had (i'll just mash up 500 apples and drink apple juice, ez game).

5. he "attempts" the bet eating at a snail's pace, not making himself uncomfortable at all knowing he had no chance before he started.

none of this would matter if there weren't significant side action on the bet. has it been confirmed that people were putting money on this from the outside and assuming it was a legitimate bet?

if so, those people should rightfully be angry with noori, because they were buried from the start and noori should have informed them to call off their action and that he was merely performing a charity stunt.

by the way, as far as charitable donations go, this has got to be the most inefficient way for someone to donate their money to relieve human suffering in vietnam. without doing any research, i'd bet my last dollar there's at least one large organization operating in vietnam who could make more efficient use of that 12k. not that it's a negative thing that they donated, i'm just saying...

Another poker hustle that people fell for with side bets. Everybody thinks a guy is pulling an Amarillo Slim when he comes up with these bets and has a secret plan. The only plan was to make a bunch of people donate to a charity they never heard of before by a poker player that nobody knew. Oh when will they learn?

not that I disagree with anything in your post augie, but I have a hard time believing anyone was stupid enough to bet alot of money he could do this. I have no idea how 200k was supposedly wagered on this, but if it's true the ppl on his side make durrrr look like the billy walters of prop betting.

the ONLY way to bet he could do this would be if you spoke with him and he told u some amazing angle he had to win, otherwise it's just lighting money on fire.

To refer to GoFundMe as a charity site is being... charitable. It's basically like sending PayPal.

Yea people need to quit saying there is a charity angle. They started a Go Fund Me page and said that the money would be used by the guy who goes to Vietnam and just said he would somehow use it to help people. That is not a charity. Who knows if they will use that money for any good, or how they plan to use the money. I don't see how you could even get a tax deduction for that.

It could just as easily be them raising money and keeping it to pay off the dumbass bet that was made. I'm not saying that's what they are doing, but if they really wanted people to donate to a charity, they could have picked a legit charity, not some guy who goes to Vietnam once a year and says he will put the money to good use.

He quit after around $100.

"About $150 ordered with about $55 in the fridge. 21 hours in, $95 consumed. On pace for about $150 worth in 36 hours. 😳🙄"

This bet was obviously impossible, like not even close to being plausible. I posted that in one of the first replies to this thread, and then quit paying attention.

I can't believe that this got anywhere near the attention that it got, or than anyone thought it was possible, or that people even tried to strategize it. How gullible are people?

$100 is actually more than I thought he would do.

If you were so sure than I guess your rich as **** now then right? A man of your certainty would have clearly had posted his entire net worth up against Jay Farber buying Noori's side at 4:1

Why didn't he go to the McDonald's at the airport?? The prices are nearly double of any store.

Read the op and you might find out.