{"id":312073,"date":"2024-02-26T18:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T00:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=312073"},"modified":"2024-02-27T14:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:10:43","slug":"barstool-sports-mintzy-skips-work-for-poker-deep-run-portnoy-seething","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/barstool-sports-mintzy-skips-work-for-poker-deep-run-portnoy-seething\/","title":{"rendered":"Barstool Sports\u2019 ‘Mintzy’ Skips Work for Deep Poker Run, Portnoy Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMintzy Just Bagged chip lead with 14 left and $120k up top by rivering quads in a CRAZY Hand!\u201d So tweeted Ben \u201cMintzy\u201d Mintz<\/a> just hours ago.<\/p>\n

\"Barstool,
Ben Mintz, left, with Dave Portnoy in happier times. Minzty incurred his boss\u2019 wrath Monday after skipping an important work engagement when he ran deep in a tournament. But who wouldn\u2019t? (Image: X\/DestroyerMintzy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The colorful Barstool Sports media personality had found himself as the chip leader in the $2.5K Moneymaker Tour Main Event at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in Florida on Monday. He had\u00a0 the chance to win $120K.<\/p>\n

Happy days! Except when Mintzy was rivering those quads, he was supposed to be at the Barstool Combine, an annual frattish carnival of amateur sports and professional partying currently taking place 1,300 miles away in Chicago.<\/p>\n

It seems Mintz didn\u2019t expect to go quite as deep in the tournament as he did, which left him with a difficult decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Mintz, Barstool\u2019s brash founder Dave Portnoy wasn’t feeling the vibes and objected to his choice of poker glory over his regular job.<\/p>\n

\u201cBREAKING: Every cent Mintzy makes in this tournament will be deducted from his salary for him choosing poker over a mandatory corporate event,\u201d he tweeted quickly in response to Mintzy\u2019s post.<\/p>\n

Portnoy\u2019s Complaint \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Later, Portnoy posted a video of a telephone conversation with Mintz in which the Moneymaker Tour chip leader offered a stuttering apology for skipping the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, if you win, do I not have to pay your salary anymore, since that\u2019s why we pay you a salary \u2013 for these events that you\u2019re just skipping?\u201d spat Portnoy.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a professional poker player, go do that \u2026 We have a major sponsored event that you have a jersey for, that you\u2019re supposed to be a part of, and you\u2019re just skipping it because you\u2019re doing well in a poker tournament,”<\/strong> Portnoy added. “Well, great! Go make your money playing poker then.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a previous life, Mintz was a professional poker player with gross tournament earnings of more than $600K, according to the Hendon Mob Database. He’s currently heading toward the biggest score of his career as we write. His best score is for just over 90K for a 75th-place finish at the 2011 WSOP Main Event.<\/p>\n

Many on social media had sympathy for Mintz and questioned why his boss would shame him publicly on Instagram \u2013 a move that has presumably frazzled his brain as he chases that big score.<\/p>\n

Not Mintzing Words<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This isn’t the first time Mintz has been in trouble with his employer. In fact, he was fired by Barstool<\/a> in May last year after rapping the song “1st of Tha Month” by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, including the N-word, during a live stream.<\/p>\n

\n

Mintz apologized, calling it \u201can unforgivable mistake.\u201d But then-Barstool owner, the casino operator Penn Entertainment, insisted on his termination because the incident could jeopardize its casino licenses across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

On that occasion, Portnoy supported Mintz and disagreed with the decision. In August 2023, Penn concluded that Barstool and Portnoy were dangerous liabilities<\/a>, and sold the company back to Portnoy for $1, having acquired it for around $550 million six months prior. That left Portnoy very, very rich and free to rehire Mintz.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

BREAKING: <\/strong>Just as we were about to publish, Mintz busted the tournament in eighth place for $14,600.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ain\u2019t happy,\u201d he tweeted, adding that he was getting straight on a plane to Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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