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Garfed   Malta. Oct 21 2017 12:45. Posts 4818

Pot-limit Omaha expert and YouTube celebrity Joey Ingram likes strange prop bets very much. The host of PokerGO’s new show “Major Wager,” is sure he can learn to speak Mandarin fluently in one year and he’s putting $7,500 on the line against a pair of entrepreneurs, with a chance to win as much as $45,000 if he succeeds.

Hurricanes in the Caribbean this fall made the poker podcaster unable to swim a mile in the ocean to win a prop bet against billionaire Bill Perkins. That bet is on hold, but he’s moving on to another challenge, this time linguistic one.

This one won’t be easy though. According to Unabel.com, Mandarin, the world’s most popular language, is also the hardest language to learn for an English native speaker.

“Thanks to it being a tonal language, every sound in Mandarin’s phonetic transcription system pinyin has four distinct pronunciations. Add that to the fact that Chinese is a language rich in homophones and full of idioms and aphorisms picked up over the course of its long history, and Mandarin becomes arguably the most difficult language in the world for an English speaker to learn,” we read on Unabel.com.[/i

Joey Ingram has made many weird bets over the years but claims now this one is his “most unusual.” Joey is putting up $7,500 against Jonathan Bales and Peter Jennings, the owners of Fantasy Labs, a daily fantasy sports analytics platform.

To prove he has really learned Mandarin, Ingram must host a full 30-minute podcast on his YouTube channel in Chinese. He has one year to do it. How good in it must he become to win the bet?

[i]“We’re going to have 5 judges that will verify it,” he said in a recent YouTube post. “We’re going to have to pick the judges when it comes to that.”

How does he want to study to speak Chinese, the most difficult language to master?
“I don’t know. I’m going to watch Mandarin movies, listen to Mandarin music, I’m going to go to China and spend some time on the Mandarin grind. I don’t really know exactly what I’m going to do. I got a couple of really good apps I’m going to be using. I’ll be putting in many hours a day.”

Ingram announced his new prop bet on Twitter, and many of his fans aren’t too sure he can do it so fast.

Ingram said he’s willing to sacrifice 2000 hours if necessary. That’s the equivalent of working 40 hours per week for a year though (50 weeks, minus two weeks for vacation).

What do you think of his chances? Is it gonna be only words, but not in Chinese, that this bet ends up at or will we see a very interesting episode of his podcast one year form now?

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 Last edit: 21/10/2017 12:51

deathstar   United States. Oct 21 2017 14:51. Posts 111

Is he getting good odds on that 7500?

 Last edit: 21/10/2017 14:53

K40Cheddar   United States. Oct 21 2017 16:50. Posts 2202

it said 7500 for around 45,000 which is +600

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FullBRing   Philippines. Oct 21 2017 18:40. Posts 581

PLO expert willing to work full time 22.5$/h to learn chinese for a year. He must be killing the game indeed


Stroggoz   New Zealand. Oct 21 2017 19:00. Posts 5289

or maybe he just likes learning chinese more than grinding poker. Besides, learning chinese could get you into crazy degen manilla/macao games

jungleman's learning chinese as well and he is still killing it.

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PoorUser    United States. Oct 21 2017 19:52. Posts 7471

^ya.

as long as he takes the bet seriously, his worse case scenario can be viewed as spending 7500 to get into substantially better live games/make better connections. pretty sick bet.

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Oct 21 2017 23:49. Posts 9634

Damn getting paid in order to learn something new. That's an easy call


asdf2000   United States. Oct 22 2017 00:24. Posts 7690

Very subjective. If they are looking for native level fluency (like, born there), then I doubt he can do this.

It takes over a year at the DLI and they probably study more there than he will(and like over half the people that go through that fail). And only the highest dlab scorers are offered mandarin.


If there are looking for the level of being able to easily communicate and not much more. Then sure, he can probably do it.

Grindin so hard, Im smashin pussies left and right. 

whamm!   Albania. Oct 22 2017 08:56. Posts 11625

Good to bet against him if it includes writing in Chinese. That shit's impossible even for most chinese I'm friends with lol

 Last edit: 22/10/2017 08:56

lhr0909   China. Oct 22 2017 11:42. Posts 423

Yo Joey if you need help to win that bet, I am happy to help. Native Chinese over here, lived in US for 7 years, I got this shit.

no pain no gain 

 



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