Poker pro Antonio Esfandiari disqualified for peeing at tournament table to win bizarre prop bet

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In what's very likely a poker-first, card shark Antonio Esfandiari was disqualified at this week's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event for relieving himself.

No, using the washroom isn't against the rules at poker events.

But relieving yourself into a bottle beneath a poker table is, apparently, grounds for dismissal.

It's not that the three-time World Series of Poker bracelet-winner didn't want to use the restroom. He simply couldn't.

He couldn't walk anymore, he claimed.

Esfandiari's legs were in too much pain due to a US$50,000 prop bet with businessman -- and amateur poker player -- Bill Perkins.

Beginning Jan. 8, Perkins bet Esfandiari he couldn't lunge everywhere he went for 48 hours.

From the hotel to the poker room to dinner and back. Literally everywhere.

While Esfandiari eventually won the prop bet, he apologized on Tuesday for his disgusting actions.

“I can sit here and try to explain and justify but at the end of the day my actions were completely unacceptable,” the 37-year-old said in a statement. “What's done is done."

“All I can do is learn from my mistakes and grow from them. I have apologized to anyone and everyone who may have been affected and will continue to do so.”

Esfandiari added that he will donate his prop bet earnings to a pair of charities.

“Lesson learned,” he added.



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