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Karl Fletcher

  

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  1. 1. Would you?

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Are you allowed to go in hammered, and scream for 8 hours because the darkness is filled with unimaginable horror... although you're giving imagining it a really good go anyway?

 

Are you allowed to do that?

 

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If you are allowed to go in fucked out of your nuts then it's an easy 1.5M that will set you up for life. Consider it a challenge.

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Your bottom teeth are like a row of gravestones Ke1t.

 

Rest assured Kelt has lovely, straight, white teeth.... though admittedly there might be one missing from the back as a result of youthful exuberance during a game of fitba in Northfield circa the mid 90s.

 

Nothing worse than mad teeth.

 

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  • 6 years later...

 

Three – or was it four? – days after he shut himself in a pitch-black bathroom, Rich Alati started to hallucinate. He saw little white, bubble-like balls, floating around the room. To calm himself he imagined he was in a magical cloud, cozy and relaxed. Embracing the visions was key. “Or else,” he says, “you might get a little scared.”

 
Alati was in the dark for a bet, which makes a little more sense once you know he is a professional poker player. On 10 September last year, the American was sitting at a poker table at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, when he was asked a question by a fellow professional player, Rory Young: how much would it take for him to spend time in complete isolation, with no light, for 30 days? An hour later a price had been agreed: $100,000.
 
Young would hand over the money if Alati could last 30 days in a soundproofed bathroom with no light. He would be delivered food from a local restaurant, but the meals would come at irregular intervals to prevent him from keeping track of time. There would be no TV, radio, phone or access to the outside world but he would be allowed some comforts: a yoga mat, resistance band, massage ball, and, appropriately for a bathroom, lavender essential oils as well as a sugar and salt scrub. If Alati failed he would have to pay Young $100,000.
 
 
Poker players are known to bet on just about anything but some thought Alati had taken things too far. “I wouldn’t do this bet for any amount of money,” professional poker player Danielle Moon Anderson noted at the time. Dr Michael Munro, a psychologist Young consulted before agreeing to the bet, told Young: “Even if he lasts for 30 days, it will be extremely taxing on his mental health for the short and potentially long term.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/10/rich-alati-poker-player-bet-dark-room-isolation

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