Poker Pro Matt Glantz Willing To Contract Coronavirus For $250KGlantz Nearly Accepted An Offer From Fellow HIgh-Stakes Gambler Blake Stevenson, But The Two Couldn't Come To Terms |
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Earlier this week, before the fear of spreading the coronavirus inside the United States really began to take hold, one poker pro was willing to infect himself with the virus for $250,000.
High-stakes mixed games specialist Matt Glantz tweeted last weekend that in exchange for the six-figure sum, he would document his experience dealing with the coronavirus. He also promised to self-quarantine as to not spread the virus to anyone else.
Willing to contract the #coronavirus for $250k. Will immediately go into self quarantine as to not to spread or infect anyone else. Will document entire experience daily.
Always put my money (I guess body now) where my mouth is.
HMU to negotiate exact terms. Let's do it!— Matt Glantz (@MattGlantz) March 7, 2020
The tweet was met with a wide array of responses. There were a few people who were willing to do the same thing for less money.
I’ll do this same thing for significantly less if anyone wants to save some cheese.
— Brandon Meyers (@oncommand) March 8, 2020
What are you willing to pay to have someone else get it and conduct the same experiment?
Not to undercut you, but I will. I’d do this for 200k— David Tuchman (
TuckonSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckonSports/status/1236425190059302912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’ll do it for $250</p>&mdash; Nick Marchington (NickMarchington) March 8, 2020
And of course a number of responders who thought that Glantz was off his rocker.
OOL
— Joey Ingram #passion (@Joeingram1) March 7, 2020
You've lost your mind. Someone check on Matt please, he's obviously on drugs
— Veronica 2.0 (@Angry_Polak) March 7, 2020
Carter Gill even offered up his experience when he contracted a previous viral epidemic years ago.
I got sars for free once
— Carter Gill (@cartergill) March 7, 2020
Apparently I dont even remember what i had. Was swine flu, and not bad at all. Was on a bender in mainland China and got a bad fever, went to hospital (literally only time I've ever been except birth of kids) booked and released cuz not enough beds
— Carter Gill (@cartergill) March 7, 2020
But eventually high-stakes gambler Blake Stevenson, who goes by “EmpireMaker2” on twitter, offered to Glantz his asking price.
100% going to pay you to do this let’s figure ok the best way https://t.co/RikgaZajhL
— EM2 (@EmpireMaker2) March 8, 2020
After some back and forth, however, the two gamblers couldn’t decide on an appropriate time frame to give Glantz to contract the virus and prove a positive test. Stevenson offered a week and Glantz said he needed three. Stevenson revised his offer to two weeks and Glantz wouldn’t budge.
— Matt Glantz (@MattGlantz) March 8, 2020
Glantz has yet to receive another offer. At this point, it seems the freeroll is dead and Glantz is still coronavirus-free, at least for the time being.
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