News: Jeremy Becker wins crossbook against Landon Tice – pokerstrategy.com

Both players lost money at the WSOP, but Becker lost less, so he is the big winner of one of the most talked about prop bets in years.

The prop bet of the year perhaps did not quite live up to the hype, but it ended with a Jeremy Becker win.

The crossbook between two of the game's brightest young stars, aided by Daniel Negreanu and Matt Berkey, ended with both players losing money this summer.

But Becker lost less, meaning he won the bet.

Becker lost $17,137 over 90 entries, with his biggest score being $23,395. Tice lost $88,879 over 86 entries and his biggest score was $29,353. You can see how it unfolded in more detail over at poker.org.

It was a stark reminder of the reality of tournament poker, especially in large elite fields like the World Series of Poker. Most players return from the WSOP down money and tournament poker is mostly downswings (with occasional upswings that put everyone in the black).

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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO.

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