Barstool Sports founder and CEO Dave Portnoy took purpose at a poker participant and crypto dealer throughout a latest livestream.
As the inventory market opens, Portnoy runs a livestream dubbed “Davey Day Trader Global.” During his stream final week, he made enjoyable of latest Wynn Millions champ Jeremy Dan. Portnoy referred to as him a “piece of shit” and ripped on Dan’s look.
Earlier this month, Dan had an incredible run on the Wynn Millions event collection in Las Vegas.
On March 11, He received the $10,500 no-limit maintain’em eight-max occasion for $191,800. Just two days later, he completed runner-up within the $25,800 no-limit maintain’em eight-max for $2481,875.
Those two scores bumped the New York Native’s profession event earnings to $662,370.
Outside of poker, Dan recurrently 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 risky (and well-liked), Portnoy took an curiosity in buying and selling them. He began tweeting about them recurrently and speaking about them on his stream.
The Barstool founder has all the time been open about how he considered 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 worth is true.
The contestant guesses a worth 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 maintain 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 in the casino” meme that floats across the crypto sections of social media.
Portnoy owns one coin, referred to as “jailstool,” the place he brazenly instructed individuals he wouldn’t promote any of the cash till it reached a sure market capitalization. But with different cash, he mentioned he would promote at any time.
According to 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 referred to as “greed.”
“It looked like he came from a cave and hadn’t showered or done anything in months,” mentioned Portnoy on his stream about Dan’s look.
Then, Portnoy reveals that the complainer in query is Dan and exhibits his winner photograph from the Wynn event.
You can see the entire rant within the clip beneath:
All-time Jingtao lore https://t.co/irRLE5NgsL
— Mitchell (@WR_Crypto) March 21, 2025
