Love him or hate his fashion (or simply dislike pizza), Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy competing within the 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) would convey much more consideration to poker’s summer season extravaganza.
And it seems, based mostly on a pair tweets, the “One Chew” pizza reviewer may present up in Las Vegas to chase a bracelet.
The $10,000 buy-in Principal Occasion, poker’s most prestigious match, begins July 3, and Portnoy would not appear taken with enjoying 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” might 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 get better from the 4th and nonetheless make it to Las Vegas.
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One other Possibility for Portnoy to Play Poker
If the Principal Occasion schedule would not work for Portnoy, one of the 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 costliest match 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 latest reminiscence.
Portnoy has never competed within the World Sequence of Poker, however quite a few Barstool staff typically make it to Las Vegas to play. That features Mintz, aka “Mintzy,” who was fired from Barstool Sports activities in Might 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 lately tweeted that he would not count on to chase any bracelets this summer season.
If he performs, Portnoy will convey his confidence — some may say overconfidence — to the Tremendous Excessive Curler. However the inexperienced match participant will probably be going through among the greatest on the planet. Final yr’s champion, Chris Brewer, took it down for $5.2 million. Within the course of, he defeated a closing desk that included Likelihood Kornuth, Dan Smith, and David Peters, and each participant in that discipline has vital match expertise and confirmed outcomes.
If issues do not go properly for Portnoy within the $250k, he might at all times spend time reviewing some pizza joints round Las Vegas. PokerNews suggests Pizza Rock on Fremont Road and Rise up Pizza in Henderson (hidden gem). Portnoy has already reviewed numerous slices in Las Vegas, however most have not obtained excessive scores. He did, nevertheless, lately give a comparatively excessive rating to 1 iconic Vegas spot.
