Misclick Sends Barstool Nate Home Early in WSOP Super Main

Eric “Barstool Nate” Nathan busted the World Collection of Poker Paradise (WSOPP) Tremendous Most important Occasion in brutal trend because the sports activities blogger first misclicked after which jammed into pocket aces.

The hand towards high-stakes Spanish professional Sergio Aido came about on a streamed desk throughout Day 1c of the $25,000 buy-in event with a $60 million assured prize pool.

The event was Nathan’s first public poker look since an notorious $20,000 loss to Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy, who had minimal poker expertise.

The hand occurred on Stage 6 with blinds of 5,000/10,000/10,000. Within the final hand on stream earlier than break, Seth Davies was compelled all in from the large blind with nine-seven offsuit as Nathan, with ace-jack offsuit, limped in for 10,000 from early place — stating that he meant to lift however put out the unsuitable quantity.

Andre Moreira known as behind within the cutoff with queen-six suited earlier than Sergio Aido raised to 45,000 on the button with purple aces. Nathan responded by sliding out his full stack of 413,000 and Moreira folded earlier than Aido snap-called.

Nathan picked the unsuitable time to limp-jam as he ran smack into purple aces — the identical coloration as Davies’ ARIA poker hoodie.

The flop of two♥4♣8♥ was completely no assist and the runout of two♣3♦ confirmed a double knockout for the Spanish high-stakes professional as Davies and the Barstool Sports activities persona hit the rail.

Regardless of his unlucky exit from the event, Nathan is in good palms. He informed PokerNews he is been getting teaching from Faraz Jaka, and that is undoubtedly one to overview with the poker coach.

It wasn’t Nathan’s first ungraceful exit from an enormous WSOP occasion. He busted the 2021 WSOP Most important Occasion in Las Vegas after four-betting four-three suited and working a postflop semi-bluff.

The event is presently on Stage 7 and has 435 runners because the dinner break approaches. There’s nonetheless yet one more beginning flight because the occasion will get nearer and nearer to the record-setting $60 million assure.

Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 International Poker Awards for his writing.