Simply days after Barstool proprietor Dave Portnoy made a stunning most cancers analysis and revealed he had a cancerous mole faraway from his neck , he was as soon as once more on social media celebrating one other vastly profitable sports activities guess.
This included placing $180,000 on Scottie Scheffler to win the Vacationers Championship. At +180 odds, Portnoy gained $504,000.
Scheffler gained a playoff for the Vacationers on Sunday over Tom Kim with a rating of 22-under-par, persevering with his spectacular run into 2024.
The world's primary golfer doubled his PGA Tour profession wins this season, taking his tally to a dozen together with his sixth triumph of the calendar 12 months.
Portnoy can be recognized for putting extreme bets on his favourite athletes, amongst different issues. On Scheffler alone, he gained $1.35 million after betting $300,000 on him to win the Masters just a few months in the past.
Portnoy celebrates his profitable guess by going shirtless after Scottie Scheffler's PGA Tour win
Scheffler's dominance to this point in 2024 is on par with Tiger Woods' dominance 20 years in the past
In his shirtless celebration, Portnoy is seen in a inexperienced swimsuit pumping his fists up and down whereas saying “Scotty! Scotty! Scotty!”
Portnoy additionally positioned a $600,000 guess on UConn males's basketball to win this 12 months's NCAA males's basketball event. The Huskies earned the Barstool boss $2.7 million as nationwide champions.
In early 2024, Portnoy gained $1.5 million with an accurate prediction that Michigan would defeat Alabama within the Faculty Soccer Playoff semifinals.
Portnoy tweeted on Might 20 that he needed to get his moles checked out, writing: “I'm in search of the most effective dermatologist in Miami who can inform me what the heck my moles are as much as. Lead from the entrance. I'm so spoiled with docs.”
A few month later, he realized that his cancerous mole had been eliminated.
Now reformed, Portnoy is definite to proceed his sports-betting, although he did embrace a gambling-problem hotline cellphone quantity in his successful-betting message replies.
