Cracking Aces

Ben Mintz

I Did Not Have A Great Saturday To Put It Mildly….

Saturday started off so promising too. I was in San Antonio, Texas to play the $1400 buy in 1 Million Dollar Poker Tournament at Rounders Card Club. This was my first time to play poker at a Texas Card Room. This live tourney was amazing & I ran my 50,000 starting chip stack all the way up to 180,00

I FINALLY Won Something in Poker!

After running my mouth for two years at Barstool Sports about my poker skills, I finally showed them something….. Did I win a tourney? No. What about lots of $$$ in a cash game? Negative. But I did take home the Gulf Coast Poker Award for Top Content Creator of 2022 & that is something! Not sure if 

Going Back to North Carolina on a Journey Through The Past

^^^Click play!      It feels like old times as I hit the road to play my first live poker of 2022 at WSOP Cherokee in North Carolina (I was a poker pro 2006-14 & in top 200 online in world). I have not played one single hand of poker since Nate Silver unceremoniously busted me out of 2021 WSOP Main 

CWS Champ & Top 250 in WSOP Main! My Brain Melted with Rhett Wiseman On Cracking Aces

My brain almost melted when I saw this combo. Top 250 in 2021 WSOP Main and 2014 College Workd Series Champion?!?! Who can pull this off?!?? Well Rhett Wiseman did and joined Cracking Aces on new episode. Wiseman was a starting OF on Vandy 2014 National Title team and was a 3rd round pick by the Was

What Might Have Been in the WSOP $1500 Millionaire Maker

After busting Day 1A of WSOP $1500 Millionaire Maker on a rough beat, I fired Day 1B on Saturday to get vengeance. After watching Ole Miss thrilling 52-51 win over Arkansas, I registered for the tourney a couple of hours late with 25,000 chips at 2-400 level.The tournament boasted a $1500 buyin and 

The Destroyer Is Heating Up with Back to Back WSOP Cashes

Yesterday, I fired the WSOP $1000 Super Turbo Bounty Tournament. Wow that’s a mouthful to type. Let me try to explain in English terms what that means:Super Turbo is a term used to describe a faster structured poker tourney that will end quickly. In this case, each level was only 20 minutes long. (T

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We talk about the future of the podcast, the guy who faked cancer and scammed the poker world, and the Barstool Awards. We love you guys. Enjoy.

Presented by Barstool Sports, Cracking Aces is the newest podcast tackling all things poker, hosted by Nate, Smitty, and Mintzy from Barstool and professional poker player Jake Toole. It will feature the fun side of the poker world and exclusive interviews with the top players. Buckle up and enjoy!

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Ep 203 - Our Last Episode Ever?

Welcome back! We are coming at your live from the new, independent Barstool Sports! We talk about the huge deal where Dave is now the owner of Barstool Sports again, what it means, and what happens next! We then talk about Negreanu joining a high school friend group's home game and share some of our own stories. It's a brave new world out there! Enjoy!

Ep 202 - Reaction To Dave Buying Back Barstool Sports + Daniel Negreanu Is Awesome

Welcome back! Is this our last episode? Maybe! Probably not though. We do some inside Barstool talk and then talk some poker too, including the discussion on if WSOP POY should separate live and online results. That leads us to reflecting on Allen Kessler and sharing some Chainsaw stories. We touch on other poker stuff too (DNegs, Pads, BensBenz). A wild episode. Enjoy!

Ep 201 - Inside Barstool Stuff + WSOP POY Separation Discussion + Kessler Is Hilarious + Other Stuff

Welcome back! On today's show we talk to a former runner of a wild underground game, Tim Faro. We get incite into what that world is like, some wild stories from it, people doing PLO flips for cars, almost being robbed, and his poker life/journey. We also start the show talking about needing to go on diets. I am fat. Enjoy! Also this is episode 200, woah.

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