Barstool Sports activities founder and CEO Dave Portnoy took goal at a poker participant and crypto dealer throughout a current livestream.
Because the inventory market opens, Portnoy runs a livestream dubbed “Davey Day Dealer World.” Throughout his stream final week, he made enjoyable of current Wynn Hundreds of thousands champ Jeremy Dan. Portnoy known as him a “piece of shit” and ripped on Dan’s look.
Earlier this month, Dan had a tremendous run on the Wynn Hundreds of thousands event sequence in Las Vegas.
On March 11, He received the $10,500 no-limit maintain’em eight-max occasion for $191,800. Simply two days later, he completed runner-up within the $25,800 no-limit maintain’em eight-max for $2481,875.
These two scores bumped the New York Native’s profession event earnings to $662,370.
Outdoors of poker, Dan commonly speculates on cryptocurrencies and posts on Twitter about completely different cash beneath the pseudonym “jingtao.”
Jingtao? the person, the parable, the legend
— Alexandra Botez (@alexandrabotez) March 12, 2025
It’s the crypto connection that introduced Dan and Portnoy collectively.
Over the previous few months, as memecoins grew to become extra unstable (and common), Portnoy took an curiosity in buying and selling them. He began tweeting about them commonly and speaking about them on his stream.
The Barstool founder has at all times been open about how he seen memecoin buying and selling. In his eyes, it’s one other type of playing and in contrast it to the “Cliff Hangers” recreation on the value is correct.
The contestant guesses a value of a prize and for each greenback they’re off, a cardboard mountain climber strikes increased up the mountain. After every guess, the contestant can go away with the prize or preserve going to win all three. If the mountain climber falls off the ledge, they go away with nothing.
Thus, he ascribes to the “no crying within the on line casino” meme that floats across the crypto sections of social media.
Portnoy owns one coin, known as “jailstool,” the place he brazenly advised folks he wouldn’t promote any of the cash till it reached a sure market capitalization. However with different cash, he stated he would promote at any time.
In accordance with Portnoy, Dan approached the social media mogul whereas he was within the Wynn’s sportsbook to complain about losses he sustained from a coin Portnoy talked about. Dan claimed $200,000 in losses on a memecoin known as “greed.”
“It appeared like he got here from a cave and hadn’t showered or carried out something in months,” stated Portnoy on his stream about Dan’s look.
Then, Portnoy reveals that the complainer in query is Dan and exhibits his winner picture from the Wynn event.
You possibly can see the entire rant within the clip beneath:
All-time Jingtao lore https://t.co/irRLE5NgsL
— Mitchell (@WR_Crypto) March 21, 2025
