Jungleman Drops Rap Video After Winning Millions at Triton
Dan "Jungleman" Cates is a poker player, podcaster, and now a rapper who refers to himself as "BBC".
The future Poker Hall of Famer finished runner-up earlier this week in the Triton Poker Jeju Main Event for $3.5 million. He didn't quite come out victorious — Huang Wenjie did — but he did spit some lyrics for the Triton audience during his postgame interview.
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Jungleman isn't one to go out of his way when it comes to entertaining the poker audience, whether it's dressing up as ''The Macho Man' Randy Savage or donning Street Fighter inspired attire on his way to victory.
This time, the poker legend dropped some bars after adding to his now $18+ million in lifetime winnings, according to The Hendon Mob.
"Some people would sit there and cry, that they didn't make five point five ... million dollars," Cates rapped, referring to Wenjie's payout.
Cates earned the biggest tournament score of his life in Jeju. His resume includes two World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets in just five WSOP cashes. He's more known, however, for crushing it online and in high-stakes cash games than his tournament success.
"May be mean in the streets, I'm still reading the sheets, like as G as you are, you can't forget to study and work hard," Cates shared a bit of poker advice in his rap song.
While Jungleman likely won't earn comparisons to Dr. Dre or Eminem, you never know. But the ClubWPT Gold X account did give the poker legend some advice — get back in the studio.
The ClubWPT Gold account, likely run by video editor Thomas Keeling (aka "SrslySirius"), was referencing a parody rap video Keeling made years ago about the infamous "Durrrr Challenge" between Cates and Tom Dwan that never concluded.
Jungleman was up big in the heads-up online poker challenge, causing Dwan to quit playing. That led to a feud between the two for years, but the poker pros have since reconciled.
