This has to be a good time in life for that man - John Juanda just recently won the first main tournament of new European Poker Tour season, claiming EPT Barcelona title for €1,022,593, and now he's also in the best physical form of his life. And all that while also making some extra cash from a prop-bet!
Juanda went missing from poker life for almost a full year, and he explained recently why that happend: "The reason I haven't been playing many tournaments is because, I think in December of last year during a Christmas party, me and my buddy, maybe we had a little too much to drink, ended up making a bunch of crazy side bets on a bunch of things like running, doing pull-ups," Juanda explained. "He bet me I couldn't do 20 pull-ups in six months … maybe it was a bad bet on my part, I could do six at the time."
After two months there was no progress, I didn't do anything. I decided, you know what, I'm either going to give up or go all out, so I said, 'You want to press the bet?' Then we ended up betting bigger, and now I really have to train for it.
I was king of out of shape when we made the bet, so it helped me get in shape. We also made some running bets … there was an interesting bet where I run 100 yards and my friend hop on one leg for 50 yards … He said I'll offer this bet to you, but it's a sucker bet, I'm trying to hustle you. But when I thought about it, there's no way he can hop faster than me running."
You can watch Juanda doing more then 20 pulls up here:
LikeASet   United States. Sep 05 2015 00:18. Posts 2113
1st picture he looks like an average Asian, and above average in terms of average American. If I was a bettor I would include that opponent can't hire a trainer and a personal chef or assistant. In this case it's still a dummy bet betting vs someone who didn't seem that far from out of shape in the first place and who already doesn't have to work for another day in his life. I think most people can attain his amount of progress within 2 months of balanced eating and training assuming no serious health conditions and a basic understanding of fundamental training principles.
Never seen a 50 1-legged dash but I'd be inclined to take that bet, even vs a track and field athlete.
always funny to look at those kind of pictures
1st picture: relaxed
2nd picture: tensed muscles and probably just after workout (as you can see his veins)
<i have achieved so much> lol
Make it rain$$$
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handbanana21   United States. Sep 05 2015 06:54. Posts 3037
the real question is would it be possible for a relatively fat person like mike the mouth to pull this off if he had a personal trainer and dieted for 6months?
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Ryan Neilly   United States. Sep 05 2015 08:38. Posts 1631
average asian to bruce lee with $1m prize sick life
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Ryan Neilly   United States. Sep 05 2015 08:39. Posts 1631
i feel good for him wish i was more physically fit
On September 05 2015 05:54 handbanana21 wrote:
the real question is would it be possible for a relatively fat person like mike the mouth to pull this off if he had a personal trainer and dieted for 6months?
6 months ? Just, no. You can perfectly lose a lot of weight but your tissues would make drastic changes that instead of thickening it, it will be loosening (spelling ?). Not the kind of shape you'd get right ?...
Shin-il : Yeah it was very very very good for me too. Rekrul : YOU MOTHER FUCKING FUCKING SON OF A BITCH
always funny to look at those kind of pictures
1st picture: relaxed
2nd picture: tensed muscles and probably just after workout (as you can see his veins)
<i have achieved so much> lol
Indeed. Also a classic is to position yourself closer to the came in the "after" photo so it looks like you have gotten bigger (or maybe his workout also made his head bigger).
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MARSHALL28   United States. Sep 05 2015 11:10. Posts 1897
anybody wanna prop bet me?
ill do the same thing while drinking 5 beers a day.
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handbanana21   United States. Sep 05 2015 12:58. Posts 3037
On September 05 2015 05:54 handbanana21 wrote:
the real question is would it be possible for a relatively fat person like mike the mouth to pull this off if he had a personal trainer and dieted for 6months?
6 months ? Just, no. You can perfectly lose a lot of weight but your tissues would make drastic changes that instead of thickening it, it will be loosening (spelling ?). Not the kind of shape you'd get right ?...
i meant could he do 20pullups after 6months of training, not the physique
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TianYuan   Korea (South). Sep 05 2015 13:17. Posts 6817
always funny to look at those kind of pictures
1st picture: relaxed
2nd picture: tensed muscles and probably just after workout (as you can see his veins) lol
Indeed. Also a classic is to position yourself closer to the came in the "after" photo so it looks like you have gotten bigger (or maybe his workout also made his head bigger).
And the light is coming from above in the 2nd pic but from the side in the first, no?
Anyway, still think he did a good job, even with all these nitpicks, he definitely achieved something.
always funny to look at those kind of pictures
1st picture: relaxed
2nd picture: tensed muscles and probably just after workout (as you can see his veins)
<i have achieved so much> lol
Indeed. Also a classic is to position yourself closer to the came in the "after" photo so it looks like you have gotten bigger (or maybe his workout also made his head bigger).
Anyway, still think he did a good job, even with all these nitpicks, he definitely achieved something.
He clearly thinks otherwise or he would have made an honest photo.
Pretty sick i can't do 20 pull ups in 1 go and I've been regularly going to the gym for 4 months at 150lbs now
Well I will probably be able to do them they way he did with all those pauses but thats just lol
He should've bet him he couldn't hold the pull ups crowbar for 2 minutes that d be an easy win :D
On September 05 2015 05:54 handbanana21 wrote:
the real question is would it be possible for a relatively fat person like mike the mouth to pull this off if he had a personal trainer and dieted for 6months?
6 months ? Just, no. You can perfectly lose a lot of weight but your tissues would make drastic changes that instead of thickening it, it will be loosening (spelling ?). Not the kind of shape you'd get right ?...
i meant could he do 20pullups after 6months of training, not the physique
Oh yeah that's perfectly doable. Just do pull up for every lose in starcraft. I'd been doing that for like two month and went from 5-10 pull up with 2 hands to 5 pull up with one hand (obviously 20+ with two hands if you're wondering)
Shin-il : Yeah it was very very very good for me too. Rekrul : YOU MOTHER FUCKING FUCKING SON OF A BITCH