Love him or hate his fashion (or simply dislike pizza), Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy competing within the 2024 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) would carry much more consideration to poker’s summer season extravaganza.
And it seems, based mostly on a pair tweets, the “One Chew” pizza reviewer would possibly present up in Las Vegas to chase a bracelet.
The $10,000 buy-in Principal Occasion, poker’s most prestigious event, begins July 3, and Portnoy does not appear concerned about taking part in playing cards over the Fourth of July. However as his worker and avid poker participant Ben Mintz identified in response to the tweet, “El Presidente” may register previous to the beginning of Day 2 on July 7 or 8, or maybe Day 1d (July 6), giving him loads of time to recuperate from the 4th and nonetheless make it to Las Vegas.
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One other Choice for Portnoy to Play Poker
If the Principal Occasion schedule does not work for Portnoy, one of the vital polarizing celebrities within the US, he introduced up a second possibility. And that’s to as an alternative enter Occasion #55: $250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler No-Restrict Maintain’em, the most costly event of the summer season. The three-day occasion kicks off June 21, lengthy earlier than Independence Day.
The six-figure value of admission would solely be a drop within the bucket for the top of Barstool Sports activities. In August 2023, he bought the corporate he based again from Penn Leisure for $1 in one of many wildest enterprise acquisitions in current reminiscence.
Portnoy has never competed within the World Collection of Poker, however quite a few Barstool workers usually make it to Las Vegas to play. That features Mintz, aka “Mintzy,” who was fired from Barstool Sports activities in Could 2023 for reciting rap lyrics on-air that offended the upper ups at Penn. Three months later, Portnoy re-hired Mintzy after taking again management of the corporate.
Eric “Barstool Nate” Nathan and Adam “Smitty” Smith additionally make near-annual appearances on the WSOP, though Nate just lately tweeted that he does not anticipate to chase any bracelets this summer season.
If he performs, Portnoy will carry his confidence — some would possibly say overconfidence — to the Tremendous Excessive Curler. However the inexperienced event participant will likely be dealing with among the greatest on the earth. Final yr’s champion, Chris Brewer, took it down for $5.2 million. Within the course of, he defeated a remaining desk that included Likelihood Kornuth, Dan Smith, and David Peters, and each participant in that subject has important event expertise and confirmed outcomes.
If issues do not go properly for Portnoy within the $250k, he may at all times spend time reviewing some pizza joints round Las Vegas. PokerNews suggests Pizza Rock on Fremont Avenue and Rebel Pizza in Henderson (hidden gem). Portnoy has already reviewed plenty of slices in Las Vegas, however most have not acquired excessive scores. He did, nonetheless, just lately give a comparatively excessive rating to at least one iconic Vegas spot.
