Both Jeremy Becker and Landon Tice went into their summer Vegas crossbook bet with high hopes of defeating the other. Coached by Daniel Negreanu and Matt Berkey respectively, Becker and Tice’s head-to-head was billed as a fascinating clash between two rising stars of the modern game. The results are in… and both men lost money over the summer.
Only one took down the prop bet and got out of the red and into the black after eight weeks at the felt.
Who Won the Crossbook Bet?
Both Landon Tice and Jeremy Becker played their hearts out across collective buy-ins totalling $350,000 between them. Over the course of 62 unique events of the 99 for Becker and just 54 for Tice, however, there had to be just one winner. Whoever made the most profit or recorded the least losses over the 2024 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas would be the winner. And the results are in…
Across all the events, Landon Tice bought into tournaments for a total of $185,710, cashing for just $96,831. That meant Tice booked losses of $88,879. Becker, meanwhile, bought in for a little less, staking $165,764. He cashed for $148,627, however, meaning his losses totalled just $17,137.
Given the bet was to lose the least if neither player made a profit across the 55th annual WSOP, that means Jeremy Becker (and Daniel Negreanu a coach) won the bet, with Tice having to settle up for the difference of $71,742. Becker therefore actually booked a profitable summer after taking into consideration this bet, winning $54,605. Tice, meanwhile, lost over $150,000 once he paid out on the wager.
Here’s a reminder of how Jeremy Becker built a seven-figure bankroll despite never winning a score over $50,000.
Becker’s Consistency at WSOP Counts
Jeremey Becker might have been a slight underdog to some at the start of the World Series of Poker but the so-called ‘King of the Dailies’ proved any doubters wrong after a hugely consistent series. Coached by seven-time WSOP champion Daniel Negreanu, ‘JBex’ sealed victory and upon doing so, received congratulations from an unlikely source, the usually acerbic wit of TV writer and WPT legend Matt Salsberg.
“I played with [Jeremy Becker] deep in the mystery [bounty],”he said. “[I] was impressed by his poise and presence. Was a fun bet you two had going, gg to both.”
Of his 90 total entries, Becker’s highest cash in the crossbook bet, which had to feature a minimum of 25 events at the World Series of Poker and other festivals with entry fees of of $10,000 or under was the $23,395 he won by coming eighth in the $1,600-entry Venetian Mystery Bounty event on the last day of the crossbook.
While online WSOP events were excluded from the crossbook, both men fired multiple live bullets on several occasions, including five in one day from Becker.
Tice Books Biggest Win of Career Despite Defeat
Despite losing the bet, Tice actually booked the biggest win, taking home $29,353 for finishing 88th in the $10,400 Wynn Summer Championship event. While Becker cashed 19 times to Tice’s nine in-the-money finishes, the so-called ‘Child of the Sim’ actually had a better summer than these results might suggest.
Right at the very start of the crossbook bet, Tice won a career-high live score of $550,000 in the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown event, coming second to the eventual winner Josh Reichard. However, since the event began long before the crossbook event in Hollywood, Florida, the fact that it ended in La Vegas was a moot point; it fell outside the boundaries already set for cross books events.
While Becker have won this particular battle, both men seem keen for it to become a semi-regular prop bet series and it adds even more spice to what could grow into a defining rivalry of the ‘GTO’ era, with one player relying more on simulations of poker and the other on live reads and gameplay.
Whatever comes next in the fascinating match-up between Jeremy Becker and Landon Tice, it’s going to be box office all the way.
Watch Landon Tice and others describe how they became professional poker players in the superb Dreamers documentary right here:
