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Rapper Hoodie Allen, real name Steven Markowitz, had a wild weekend traveling coast to coast and playing high-stakes poker.
He made Day 2 of the World Series of Poker Main Event with about 145,000 chips in the bag. Then he hopped on a red eye flight after play ended on Day 1 to fly back to New York for a close friend’s wedding.
After the wedding, he grabbed a 5am flight back to Las Vegas to pick up Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event. Then on the 4th hand of the day he picked up pocket aces and his AA LOST to A-K offsuit. Just a whirlwind of a weekend brutal finish to an otherwise great run in the Main Event.
Former Barstool personality Ben Mintz, who was on the PokerGo stream last week, tweeted this update from Friday:
This was the rapper @HoodieAllen’s seat on my right in @wsop Main Event. He just left for a red eye flight to New York to be a groomsman in a wedding tomorrow with 145kish & 105 min left in Day 2
Lands back in Vegas Sunday morning at 10am. This better be a damn good friend….. pic.twitter.com/coQ2IKjVoH
— Mintzy (@StoolMintzy) July 8, 2023
Hoodie Allen gave the world an update on Sunday after he made it back to Las Vegas. His Day 3 run was short and he certainly didn’t misplay AA but sometimes the poker gods have it out for you…
had the craziest 48 hours
-made it do day 3 of the biggest poker tournament in the world
– left early to take a red eye flight to NY for my friends wedding 💒
– flew back at 5 am the next morning to be back in Vegas for the poker tournament
– get pocket aces (AA) the 4th hand…— Hoodie Allen (@HoodieAllen) July 10, 2023
If that tweet is’t loading, Hoodie Allen said:
had the craziest 48 hours
-made it do day 3 of the biggest poker tournament in the world
– left early to take a red eye flight to NY for my friends wedding 💒
– flew back at 5 am the next morning to be back in Vegas for the poker tournament
– get pocket aces (AA) the 4th hand of the day and a player at our table goes all in against us
– the player wins an unlikely pot (8% chance to beat us) to eliminate us after only 15 minutes of playinglesson: life can always suck out on u when u least expect it so be there for the people u care about and boldly do the things u love regardless of outcome
He also shared a picture of the hand:
well this is pretty soul crushing
all in preflop with AA he jammed w AK
rivers a straight 😢4th hand of the day and we’re out on a cooler that would have doubled us to 300k chips pic.twitter.com/S97G8cR6Wo
— Hoodie Allen (@HoodieAllen) July 9, 2023
Hoodie Allen is an avid poker player. This was not his first rodeo (in the Main Event).
If you’re wondering about Day 2… Yes, his chips just sat there all day. The dealer would blind/ante off his chips so the stack would dwindle:
Red 528/9 with 124,500 for Day 3 on Sunday. https://t.co/Y5PJLUaQ2O
— Tim Duckworth (@Tim__Duckworth) July 8, 2023
It was a good run.
Heading into Day 4 of the Main Event there are 1,517 players out a record-setting 10,043 field. 1,507 players will make the money so when play resumes on Day 4 they are 10 away from the money bubble.
Chance Kornuth is just a few thousand off the overall chip lead. As a reminder, on July 7th I said Chance was THE player to watch in the Main Event. At that time I wrote “The Main Event will conclude 10 days from now on July 17th. There are a LOT of players to watch between now and then. But I’d say keep you eye on Chance Kornuth who had a strong Day 1D and bagged 241,500 in chips to finish 26th in his flight.
Kornuth currently sits 8th in WSOP Player of the Year standings with 2,675.24 points and has been playing incredibly strong poker lately, so keep your eyes on him to go deep.”
He’s now sitting on a stack of 1,887,000 chips and looking strong.