Jaime & Matt Staples Win $150,000 Weight Loss Bet

Pete - Monday, March 26, 2018, Written by- Monday, March 26, 2018, Online poker

PokerStars twitch streamer Jaime Staples and his brother Matt will collect a cool $150,000 after winning a prop bet against hedge fund boss and high stakes poker player Bill Perkins who bet them $3,000 at 50:1 that that they couldn't get within 1lb of each other in weight in a year.

When the bet was made exactly a year ago while the Staples brothers were on board "The Streamboat" streaming poker from Perkins yacht in the Bahamas Jaime weighed in at 305lb while Matt hit the scales at a mere 135lb. The bet not only required them to weigh within 1lb of each other but they had to weigh in at exactly 5pm on 25th March 2018 - they couldn't just reach the correct weight difference at some point in the year and win the bet, they had to coordinate the weight down to the minute. After a year of hard work the brothers both weighed in at 5pm at EXACTLY the same weight, 188.3lb!

Above: A bulked-up Matt Staples takes to the scales for the 5pm weigh-in ahead of older brother Jaime

The Staples brothers streamed the run-up to their 5pm weigh-in live on Jaime's twitch.tv channel where up to 10,500 viewers watched live, the biggest ever IRL (in real life) twitch streaming numbers ever, as they fine-tuned their weight difference, chatted with fans and played clips of the many vlogs they accumulated throughout the last twelve months as they travelled the world playing poker and working on the "Ultimate Sweat" challenge

Jaime and Matt were joined by their brother Chris who has been fillming and editing the brothers' journey on camera for their numeorus vlogs, and also by their personal trainer, fitness guru Mike Vacanti who put together the fitness and diet plans for the boys. On the stream today they were also joined by fellow twitch streamers Jason Somerville, Kevin Martin, Arlie Shaban, and Jeff Gross. In fact Gross was refereeing the event in the absence of Perkins who couldn't make the final weigh-in. Although he was officially refereeing, Gross admitted to having bets with Perkins, Doug Polk, and Mike "Timex" McDonald that the Staples brothers would win the bet.

It was a tense run-up to the final weigh-in as the brothers repeatedly checked their weights every few minutes although they needn't have worried as they had timed their convergence to perfection.

The brothers soon got Perkins on the phone and he certainly didn't seem to concerned over the six-figure loss and was suitably impressed at the boys achievment, as indeed did the entire twitch chat. Well done the Staples boys!