Poker player Ben “Mintzy” Mintz was fired Wed from “Cracking Aces,” the stove poker podcast he frequently co-hosts on the Barstool Sports network, after he rapped along to a Bone Thugz-N-Harmony strain during a live broadcast on Monday, May 1. The lyrics to “1^st of Tha Month” include the n-word.

Mintz right away and profusely apologized on Twitter, saying he “made an unforgiveable mistake” and “never felt worse near anything.” And he received living from Barstool Sports beginner Dave Portnoy, who denounced what he called the company’s “wrong decision” in a Twitter video.

“I reckon anybody who watched the clipping was like, ‘There’s no path he meant to make out that,’” Portnoy said in the video. “He’s simply not the brightest bulb to of all time come up down pat(p) the pipe. And he just now screwed up. And he knew he screwed up. And at that place was no more hatred slow it. No nothing.”

However, Portnoy — who, according to the New York Post has courted disceptation by falling his possess n-bombs during podcasts — admitted that he had no more say-so to blow the decision, since his cut-rate sale of the balance of Barstool to PENN Entertainment unsympathetic earlier this year. (Portnoy originally sold 36% of the company to PENN inward 2020 for $163 million, and then the repose inward February for $388 million.)

In add-on to owning Barstool Sports, PENN operates 43 brick-and-mortar casinos in 20 states below the brands Ameristar, Boomtown, and Hollywood Casino. And its relationships with the regulators who control its res publica operating licenses are its paramount concern. Therefore, instances of perceived racialism — whether knowing or not — cannot follow tolerated.

The send for to attack Mintz was reportedly made by William Penn CEO Jay Snowden himself.

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Portnoy has faced his possess criticism for the sale. In a part Twitter video, he responded emotionally to critics: “I sold out. You’re simply figuring that out? …  Made hundreds of millions, made millions for everybody… Yeah, we sold the f*** out. And that’s what you do when you’re an entrepreneur.”

Mintz. a pop and skilled stove poker player with more than $620K in unrecorded tourney wins, united Barstool inwards 2020. After his firing, he tweeted that he is “in salutary spirits,” that he is “def an retard but i am also a resilient one.”

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