Ted Forrest

Aggressiveness: 7
Looseness: 8
Short-handed: 8
Limit: 8
No-limit: 8
Tournaments: 7
Side games: 7
Steam control: 6
Against weak players: 8
Against strong players: 7

Best game : Any form of seven-card stud
Weakness : Invests in losing players and failing businesses

Most people consider him to be a stud specialist, but he did win a WSOP bracelet in no-limit hold’em against a field of over 800 players. Ted is a very tricky player and is known for making great reads. If you want to know how it feels to be in the eye of a hurricane, play short-handed seven-card stud eight-or-better with Ted.

Amusing anecdote

Ted has made some unusual side bets. Here are a few with results.

Bet	Against	Result
Had to run a marathon in under six hours on the outdoor heat-radiating, rubber-urethane track at UNLV, at temperatures almost 120 degrees.	Mike Svobodny	Won $7,000, but suffered serious heat exhaustion.
Bet that Howard Lederer, starting at 310 lbs., wouldn’t weigh less than Huck Seed, initially at 180 lbs., in less than a year.	Howard & Huck	Won $50,000.
Had to bench press 225 lbs. fifty times in 24 hours.	David Oppenheim	Lost $10,000 and permanently injured his right arm.
Laid 6 to 1 that Mark Weisman, 43 years old, 5’5” tall, and 230 lbs., couldn’t run a mile in under six minutes, with 18 months to train.	Mark Weisman	Lost $60,000
Bet that Huck Seed’s brother Lief couldn’t run the 280 miles from L.A. to Las Vegas, only sleeping twice.	John Hennigan	Won $10,000 because Lief hurt his Achilles’ tendon after 70 miles.

Title: Hungry Like The Wolf
Artist: Duran Duran
Year: 1982

Reason for this song choice

Ted can frequently be found scavenging card rooms for good games. His is often unshaven and doesn’t follow a normal time schedule, two traits that have occasionally caused players to call him a wolf.