Poker Pro Prop Bet on Trump Presidency Ending This Year

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As prop bets go the money isn’t huge, but for David Walton and Tony Cousineau it’s a sweetener to a battle of political wills which are poles apart – Walton getting 2-1 odds on his $2000 wager that ‘stable genius’ Donald J. Trump will be gone from the White House by January 1st 2019.

For once it’s Facebook rather than Twitter where the banter has been passing back and forth, where the two friends ‘have sparked regular heated political debates’ according to Cardschat’s Jon Sofen – and now the pro-and anti-Trump pair have enlisted Nolan Dalla as an impartial escrow for the prop bet, the full terms of the wager described by Nolan in his FB post a few days ago…

“Regardless of the outcome, I admire you for putting up just as I did,’ Cousineau wrote, adding: "My goal as a patriot in 2018 is to cease the partisan rhetoric and just love and wish all my fellow Americans the best future possible.”

Cousineau holds the distinction of having cashed more times than anyone else at the World Series of Poker without lifting a bracelet, a record-holding 82 times in the money which has boosted his lifetime tournament earnings over the $2.6million, while Walton has a meagre $8,093 on his Hendon Mob resume, $7,892 of that coming back in 2006 at the WSOP.

With Cousineau putting up $4000 to Walton’s $2000, he is pretty confident that President Trump will still have his title come next January 1st, Dalla ready to transfer the money to whoever wins as his FB post states:

"On January 20, 2019, the winner will be determined and the full amount of $6,000 will be transferred to the victor."

As Sofen explains, it won’t matter how Trump is removed from office for Walton to take the cash: ‘Whether it’s due to resignation, death, impeachment, or he quits, if he’s out, Walton wins the bet.’

With what seems to be the friendliest ‘political discussion’ post ever seen on social media, there is a lot of humour involved too, with Dalla’s ‘footnote’ to the bet’s terms reading:

"If Walton, Cousineau, and Dalla all become incapacitated, any surviving member(s) of the Supreme Court will split the funds. If all three principles AND all members of the Supreme Court become incapacitated, we really don't care what happens to the money. It means everyone's fucked."

With that being unlikely, it seems that Dalla is the only person certain to profit from the friendly bet, number 7 in the list stating:

"The winner agrees to buy Nolan Dalla dinner at the conclusion of the wager (the vig). The dinner must include wine."