When all else fails, you have to name within the “Dawg” to save lots of the day.
Barstool Sports activities despatched two of its personalities out to Las Vegas for the 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Principal Occasion — Adam “Smitty” Smith and Ben “Mintzy” Mintz — and each had been eradicated on Day 1 within the $10,000 buy-in event.
Dan Katz, aka “Large Cat,” one of many oldest college Barstool content material creators wasn’t about to let the media firm he represents exit like that. The “Pardon My Take” podcast co-host referred to as an audible on Saturday, and he despatched the poker participant to Las Vegas he hopes would be the firm’s savior.
One Final Hope for Barstool Sports activities
With Smitty and Mintzy making abrupt exits from poker’s Tremendous Bowl, Large Cat wanted a Plan B. He referred to as upon the “Dawg” — Nate Dawg (Eric “Barstool Nate” Nathan) — to move out west final minute as a final ditch effort for Barstool Sports activities to earn a money within the Principal Occasion.
“So, mainly I wasn’t going to play the Principal. I used to be at peace with it. Smitty and Mintzy each busted on Day 1, and Large Cat, he wanted a sweat,” Nathan instructed PokerNews.
Large Cat had a chunk of Mintz within the Principal Occasion, an funding that did not present any type of return. And he needed another alternative to get a chunk of the motion.
Nathan sometimes enters the Principal Occasion, and he’d already been to Las Vegas this summer season to compete in a few bracelet occasions. However he wasn’t planning to return for the world championship occasion resulting from, as he defined in a video, having most of his funds tied up in investments. Large Cat referred to as him up and supplied to stake him for a portion of the $10,000 buy-in, a proposal he merely could not refuse.
The previous Cracking Aces poker podcast host booked a flight for Sunday, and he arrived to city round 7 p.m. He rapidly headed to Horseshoe Las Vegas to register for Day 2nd, which begins at midday on Monday, the final alternative to enter.
The final hope for Barstool Sports activities incomes a money within the Principal Occasion is Nate. That in thoughts, does he really feel any strain heading into Day 2nd?
“Yeah, lots of strain,” Nathan stated. “You do not need to appear to be a f*****g fool, flying out right here, being right here for six hours after which flying house. There isn’t any worse feeling on this planet than busting the Principal Occasion.”
Barstool Nate has by no means cashed within the Principal Occasion, however he did run up an enormous stack on Day 3 in 2022, earlier than he infamously semi-bluffed it off with a four-high flush draw (and a small pair).
“Yeah, that was a foul one. That was the final stage of Day 1. I additionally as soon as had a Day 2 chip lead and did not money that. I punted that entire stack on Day 3. Yeah, I am actually good at getting huge stacks and eliminating them. I feel I am 0 for six. (One yr), I bagged like 200k on Day 1 and was out by dinner break on Day 2,” Barstool Nate stated.
Possibly this can lastly be the yr he reaches the cash, a efficiency that would definitely make Large Cat — and boss Dave Portnoy — proud.
“I’d like to get my first Principal Occasion money,” Nate says. “I have not cashed in a event in what seems like a decade. If there’s one to get, it might be this one.”
It is all as much as Nate — and the playing cards — to make Large Cat (and Josh Arieh, who additionally purchased motion) happy, and a few cash. He is attempting a unique technique this time round by starting on Day 2 with fewer huge blinds than in yr’s previous. Fewer chips to punt? We’re kidding, Nate (form of).
Observe Barstool Nate’s WSOP Principal Occasion Run at PokerNews
