Quads on the River Cracks Mintzys Set of Aces for Gross Bad Beat at WSOP

Ben Mintz, aka “Mintzy,” on Tuesday, took one of the dirtiest bad beats we’ve seen all summer at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

The Barstool Sports personality, thanks to a one-outer on the river, is out of Event #75: $1,000 Mini Main Event on Day 2. He earned a small cash but was devastated by the manner in which he exited the tournament.

Rough Way to Go Out

Mintzy picked up pocket aces in a hand, a welcome sight for the short-stacked player trying to build a stack to make a run at the final table in a 10,794-entrant field. He’d get those aces all-in preflop against a bigger-stacked opponent holding pocket eights. The flop came out K*♦8A♦*, giving both players a set.

The turn was the 10*♥, leaving his opponent drawing to just one out, and the 8♥* on the river gave Mintzy’s opponent quads for a one-outer. That sent the University of Mississippi sports fanatic to the rail in 654th place for $2,790, nearly three times his buy-in. But still a brutal way to bust from the tournament.

Mintz, who now has over $670,000 in live tournament cashes, according to The Hendon Mob, showed emotion following the bad beat in a brief video he posted on X. He told his followers that “you can’t do any better than getting it in with aces pre.”

“I don’t even know if I’ve ever seen that before,” the veteran poker player said of the bad beat. “I’ve definitely never taken one like that. But, on the perspective stuff, I was short-stacked anyway. so, I mean, I can’t really complain too much. I mean, I’m thrilled to catch two aces and get it in there.”

Mintz, a co-host of the former Cracking Aces poker podcast, a Barstool Sports production, is taking another shot at a bracelet by entering Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship on Day 1. Last year’s PokerNews-branded tournament attracted 5,110 entrants and was conquered by Hector Berry for $282,876.

Barstool Sports fans, aka “Stoolies,” can follow Mintzy’s run in the PokerNews Deepstack Championship via PokerNewslive reporting coverage throughout the tournament.

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