High stakes online poker pro Steve ‘stevesbets’ Jacobs was close to broke. But he had $ 2,000 sitting in escrow, securing a crackpot prop bet that most of us would make only if we really didn’t care about the money. Jacobs cared deeply, but he also believed that he could win the bet: drink 10 disposable cups of soda and identify each one as Coke or Pepsi. ‘I’ve drunk Coke and Pepsi for a long time, and I can tell the difference,’ he says. ‘I was getting two-to-one odds, betting against Andrew Robl and our friend Luke Kim [both of whom are online poker pros].