- From Thunder Valley Resort
in Lincoln, California,
this is Poker Night in America.
(upbeat swing music)
Welcome to Poker
Night in America.
I am Chris Hanson.
This guy's the pride
of eastern Connecticut.
It's Joe Stapleton.
Well we're back at Thunder
Valley in Sacramento, California
and the question of the day is,
can Phil Hellmuth keep
up his winning ways?
- We promise to
answer that question
and at least one more
important question
from each and every one of
you at some point today.
- Excuse me, I have
a important question.
Right over here.
Uh, are we gonna
start the poker soon?
- Soon, yes.
But first, a chip count.
- At the Mayfair, you
would deal yourself--
- [Phil] But the Mayfair
closed in '92 maybe.
- No.
No, not even close, Phil.
- [Chris] We continue
day number one
here at Thunder Valley.
A couple of new players
are sitting down
and they are Rep
Porter and Bart Hanson.
Bart is already down
13,000 for the day.
He's gotta turn that around.
- [Joe] Someone
who doesn't have to
turn things around
is Phil Hellmuth Jr.
He wants to stay
right where he's at.
- [Chris] And before
you even get into it,
Bart Hanson is not my brother.
- [Joe] Your brother Tad's
still running around,
though, right?
[Chris] Tad is still here, yeah.
Unless someone locked him
in a janitor's closet,
which is totally possible.
- [Joe] Phil Hellmuth
just tried to claim that
they closed the
Mayfair Club in 1992.
I think the Mayfair
Club just told Phil
that they closed in 1992.
They went strong for
many years after that.
- [Chris] So again, a
couple of big hands.
And Scott Ball
heading to the flop.
Oh, this is a cooler already.
Two pair for Scott
Ball but Bart Hanson
has flopped a set of jacks.
- [Joe] This is a sicker
cooler than the one
they keep Walt Disney's head in.
- [Chris] 600,
the bet from Ball.
- [Joe] (laughs) Ball.
How does Bart handle this?
- Nineteen.
- [Chris] So now
back to Scott Ball.
- [Joe] If Bart Hanson's
training site teaches you
to run like this, then
sign me the heck up.
- Do I miss a toast?
- No, we can..
- [Chris] Chose to call.
Front ball.
- Thank you for that, thank you.
I got the next one.
[Player] You know that
Bill hasn't come yet.
Probably all gonna
show up together.
- [Chris] Four of hearts.
So that would put a
possible flush out there.
Scott checks to
the last aggressor.
That heart may help Scott.
One of the hands
Scott was beating
on the flop was a heart draw.
Now he is no longer.
- [Joe] I'm curious how
much Scott is willing
to pay off here and I bet
Bart's wondering the same thing.
- [Hanson] Is that 23?
- [Joe] 2,300.
A little less than half
the pot, good sizing.
(players talking)
- Set of jacks.
- Really?
- [Chris] Scott does pay it off.
Got the great turn
card again, Phil.
- [Joe] Cannot believe
how cold that deck was.
Wow.
- Where's the pot?
I just wanna make a toast to,
win or lose, I think
we're all very lucky
to be able to sit here
and play this game
for this kind of money, so.
- [Chris] Well said, well said.
Grij emotional, look at this.
- [Joe] There's more coming.
- [Chris] It's getting
real, everyone,
or as I like to call her,
the Pinot Grigio monster.
Well that's a nice
start for Bart Hanson
with a set of jacks
there to win a big pot,
to try to get
himself back to zero,
and start working
on making a profit.
- [Joe] I thought maybe
hell, I thought I'mma
get a stack of those pink
chips with the worst hand.
- [Chris] Uh oh.
Scott Ball's trying to get it
back by straddling this hand.
- An extra one right here.
- [Joe] And we've limped in.
- [Chris] Big one for
Phil, Bart a glimpse here.
(everyone talking at once)
- [Joe] Mike Ross, limpy limpy.
Rep Porter!
- [Mike] Nope, it's
gonna get more expensive.
- Why?
- There's a lot of
money out there.
Everyone might fold.
- [Joe] No one's
gonna fold, Rep.
Okay, not no one, but
definitely not everyone.
- I'm going to bet, are
we watching the same game?
- [Chris] Chances of
Phil folding are zero.
Cos, he wins, so
he has something.
If he raise, and not re-raise,
then he might have folded.
- [Joe] Alright, so you worked
it down to two opponents.
Bart's hand wasn't
great but he might think
that's he's got a
close flop edge against
these two in position,
and he has flopped a draw.
Hellmuth has flopped the
best with second pair.
He knows Rep's likely to
continue with his entire range,
so I think Phil's
gonna call it a pair.
- [Maria] I love how Maglev
comes over every few hours,
and just shouts us things
from the rail, like.
- Like liven it up?
- Like liven it up.
- [Chris] Phil
can't fold a pair!
- [Joe] His underwear,
just ask his wife.
But seriously, he shouldn't
fold this pair either.
- In two more bottles
it'll be alive I'm sure.
- It's been pretty, I
feel like there's been
some play I'd
characterize as live.
- 850.
- You know the good
part about this pot
is someone's paying
for the champagne.
- It's true.
- [Joe] Bart's getting
(drowned out by table chatter).
Price to call and
try to hit his draw.
His pairs might even be live.
- Some of our engineers
at Twitch were texting me,
and they were like, wow, how
is there so many big pots
in this game?
- [Chris] Hanson calls,
we're gonna see the turn.
- [Joe] And Bart, it's a
straight, do the Bartman,
do the Bartman.
- [Chris] Eat my shorts.
- Lorrie did it the smart
way, she just gets it all in
on a flip, pretty much
doubles her money,
but more than that,
because she satellited in,
and then she just, trounces.
Total reroll.
And wins a huge flip.
- Yeah?
- [Chris] She won it.
- [Joe] I'd like
to slow play this,
but there are tons of
rivers he won't love.
- [Maria] That's
the way to do it,
just get in a flip, win, leave.
- When I fourbet
her, I had a big ace.
I had a big suited ace--
- [Chris] 2600 from Bart Hanson.
- Yeah, totally.
Especially cos she just
double up if she's not trying,
like she wouldn't put it in
with anything less than like-
- [Mike] There's my
horse on the rail.
You're on the rail, that's bad.
- [Chris] Back to Hellmuth.
- [Guy] Oh, alright.
- [Joe] Hellmuth's got a pair,
but he's also got
diamonds and a gut shot,
looks like he's gonna
try and draw down,
like Marshal Raylan Givens.
Pistols at dawn.
- [Chris] He's gonna have
to get there on the river.
This pot almost at 10k.
- [Joe] His gut shot
is dead, however,
like most of the
guys that face off
against Marshal Raylan Givens.
- You know who this is?
This guy doesn't make
mistakes like that.
- [Chris] It doesn't matter cos
he misses everything anyway.
Bart has got to love
this, he's got the nuts.
Nothing to be scared of.
7k is a big bet to pay off,
with just a pair of nines,
and Hellmuth lets it go.
- Time to show.
- [Bart] Time to show, buddy.
- [Phil] Oh yes, show, yeah.
- What was your hand?
- Nine, seven of diamonds.
- [Chris] And just like
that after starting
the evening losing money, now
Bart's back in the winning.
- You gotta buy the champagne.
- We gotta reimburse
Scott there.
(players talking)
- Alright, my babies,
we gotta pay the bills,
which means a short break,
but we will be right back,
with more Poker
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- Less talky, more poker-y.
All he has is derive pleasure
from the Patriots losing.
- [Joe] Everyone
derives pleasure from
the Patriots losing,
unless you're a jerk.
- It's so much fun, we
went to a Dallas game,
the second game of the last.
- That (mumble) through,
in interception--
- [Chris] Ace ten of
clubs for Scott Ball.
We were just so fine, we
were just talking about that.
- Nice, 300.
- Yeah, it was for raising,
the straddle from Rep Porter.
- What are you doing,
you're playing so tight
all of a sudden.
- So tight!
- [Joe] Looks like
Bart's gonna reraise.
- [Chris] You gotta have it
to raise it, there buddy.
- [Joe] He does with
king nine suited.
- [Maria] I still
like my spot though.
- [Joe] Look at you, Scott Ball,
reaching for the big chips!
That's a fourbet!
- [Chris] He raises it
all the way to 2500.
- [Joe] Might be time
for Bart to ditch this.
- Didn't he just win something?
I saw him online or something.
- He's been racing
Lochte and his mates,
and he's been winning.
- [Joe] I had a great Ryan
Lochte joke but somebody
stole it from me at gunpoint.
- [Chris] That's
the American legend,
or American hero right there.
- [Joe] He's a hero.
I thought Brian Rass
was on the final table.
- [Chris] Bart Hanson
really wants to win the hand
right here, he raises
now back to 6100.
- [Joe] I obviously forgot
about that as a move.
- No, he's out of
the high roller.
- Wanna bet?
- I'll bet you he's
not in the high roller.
- [Joe] Think this
last shove from Bart
might be the winning one.
- Alright, well, I
won't bet on that,
- [Chris] Ace, 10 all of a
sudden, gets really small.
- She still in?
- [Joe] I mean.
- Have they started today?
- [Mike] Oh, maybe
they didn't start.
Ari's the chip leader.
- [Joe] We know Scott's
got the best hand,
and he probably doesn't
feel too great about it
at this point, and ditches it.
- [Chris] Go Bart Hanson!
- [Joe] You sure you
don't wanna claim him
as your brother, cos that
was a pretty sick move.
- [Chris] If I receive
some of that money
I might take him in.
Bart Hanson now
straddling on this hand,
Mike Ross gonna be first to act.
- [Scott] I don't know
anything about football,
I just know I started liking
it again this year a lot.
- [Joe] Much like Scott Ball,
I don't know much
about football either,
but I love the fact that
there's such a thing
as the cuddle.
- [Chris] It's the
huddle, with an H.
The huddle.
- [Joe] I don't know, I
think it's tomayto, tomahto
the way we're pronouncing it.
- Hard to say too much.
- [Joe] The chuddle.
- [Phil] I watched at least
three games this Sunday,
at least.
- [Joe] Sick brag.
- [Phil] Between Sunday and
Monday probably four games.
But I go through
'em in 35 minutes,
you can, you know.
- [Joe] King queen
versus 10 nine versus
the old seven deuce,
and nine seven suited.
- The DirectTV thing
that fast forwards
exactly 30 seconds?
So the guy had gone,
boom, now it's snapped,
the guy, boom.
I can do 35 minutes, which is--
- [Mike] But for Patriots
games, so they go so quick,
it's too, 30
seconds is too much.
- The worst used to be Manning.
Like he would snap
every 15 seconds, and--
- [Joe] Scott betting
his up and down draw.
This could be inviting a
raise from pocket queens.
- [Mike] That thing
was 20, 25 seconds,
it would be perfect.
- [Joe] Especially if there's
some callers in between.
Let's see how Mike Ross
decides to handle it.
- NFL package,
they play them on--
- [Joe] Ross did raise, my man!
- I record two games,
I'll get up at 12:15,
I'll start at 12:20, I'll
fast forward through,
then I'll record
some late games.
I'll watch one
game in 35 minutes,
start the other, and then--
- [Chris] Oh man this is
fascinating stuff Phil,
please tell us more about
how long you watch stuff for.
- Could just flip
between channels,
like the slam--
- [Chris] Shh,
Rep, don't ruin it!
He's telling a story, Rep.
- But then you miss place.
- [Joe] We got the Ball call.
- [Mike] I had to
buy their Up package
to get it to the--
- [Chris] Here we go
again, it's $700 on fire
instead of 2100.
- [Joe] Not their football yet.
Ross checks to Ball,
gives him a free card.
Boom, seven, dirty!
Score one for Scotty too hotty.
- [Chris] 1900 the bet,
now back to Scott Ball.
- Don't you open up that window.
- [Joe] This is a
great spot for Scott,
other than the fact
that Phil Hellmuth
is singing into his ear.
You get bet into when
you've got the nuts,
(Joe sings incomprehensibly)
- [Chris] And here
comes Scott Ball,
not just calling,
but raising large.
- [Joe] I think this is
a pretty clearcut fold,
I mean obviously I can
see the hole cards,
but still, Scott Ball isn't
a complete whackjob yet,
and Ross isn't beating
any legitimate hands
Scott would raise with.
- [Mike] I was hoping
you didn't do that.
- I try to do the
weird stuff sometimes.
That way Bart knows he can
fivebet me with king nine.
- It's a tough fold.
I don't wanna make.
- [Joe] Believe me,
I know how hard it is
to ditch the ladies,
but sometimes
they're just no good.
- You did say I was
probably ahead on the flop,
to be fair.
- I feel like you have
some nonsense like
jack eight of diamonds,
or something like that.
- Do I play that kind of crap?
- I feel like there's a jack
and an eight in your hand,
just letting you know.
- [Joe] See plus look
how chirpy Scott is too,
it's hard to have this
much fun when you're scared
you're gonna get called.
- [Mike] I was hoping
you'd just call the 1900.
That was the object there.
- Don't wanna get frisky, Mike.
- [Mike] Yeah.
You wanted to get frisky.
- [Joe] Scott.
Stop talking.
Stat.
STAHP.
Stahp.
- I'm always in line
when I do this, right?
Always have it.
- [Mike] You know I have
an over pair, obviously.
- [Scott] Actually, I
didn't know that, but.
- Yeah, you knew that.
- [Joe] Possibly a nine
and 10 in your hand, sure,
you check the turn,
of course you can.
- [Chris] Nine 10 it is.
- [Joe] Nine 10 for sure.
- [Chris] 100%.
- [Joe] 100%.
- [Chris] Always
nine 10, for this.
- [Joe] Always a
nine 10, good fold.
- [Chris] If I were in
that pot I would have
read it that way.
- [Joe] Oh, if you
were in that pot
you would've gotten him
to fold the nuts I'm sure.
- Hellmuth is still in
the winner's column,
and they're only
a few hands left.
Can he hold on and book a W?
- I'm just picturing
one of those posters,
from Denis office, with the
cat hanging from the tree,
and it's like, hang in
there, baby, Fry is coming.
But instead of the cat
it's Phil Hellmuth,
and the tree is money.
- Adorable.
[Jason] We give him a hard time,
but we get to play every week
with the Michael Jordan of Poker
[Chamath] Now he may not be
27-year-old Michael Jordan,
He may actually be
52-year-old Michael Jordan.
- Come on Phil,
we're almost there.
I want this more
than you want this,
I like you on top, come on baby!
Poker Night in America tonight
at Thunder Valley Resort,
just outside of Sacramento.
- [Chris] Imagine how
much you'd be winning
if the cards just (mumbles).
- [Joe] Imagine how
much I'd be winning
if Alan didn't get away
with all the ace six
against ace jacks all night.
- [Chris] Yes, everyone,
one day Phil Hellmuth
will play in enough
poker that the cards
will eventually break even.
He just hasn't played
quite enough yet.
- I feel like when
this cash game is done,
for those of us
that aren't playing
tryna lose it all, go
have one or 500 drinks.
- [Joe] Come down!
- How much, four?
- Alright.
- I might play a turn as well.
- Getting late in the evening,
and so Hellmuth maybe
getting a tad loosey-goosey.
Holes of king, eight of spades.
- We'll have plenty of
sleep, we can sleep in.
- [Joe] Yes, we're all
going out after this
and you're buying.
You know, I've been out
to dinner with Maria
several times, and
every single time
she offers to pay, I let her.
Because I'm a feminist.
- [Chris] That's
awfully big of you.
Yeah, most people
won't let that happen.
- I just happened
to run into you!
I had to practically beg you!
And by beg, I mean
you were already there
before I was.
- [Joe] Scotty likes a drink.
- [Rep] I only went out
three nights all of Pisae,
and she saw me plastered
all three times.
- [Maria] Every
night, every night.
- [Rep] Not every
night, three times.
- [Maria] Every
night that I saw you.
Which, statistically speaking,
makes me--
- [Joe] Bad spot for
Phil Hellmuth, top pair
against an overpair.
- [Maria] Could have
been all nights.
- It really wasn't, I promise.
- [Joe] Man, he is
gonna lead into this.
Doing Rep Porter's job for him.
- I was having so much
fun, that last night--
- [Joe] Will Rep call
or will he pop it up?
♪ Pop pop popop pop
- Was this the
last night at Aura?
- [Joe] You like that fella?
You like the way it goes pop
pop popop pop in your mouth?
- [Chris] Rep wants a little
bit more money out of Phil,
he raises it to 2700.
- [Joe] Man, one of these days
the cards will break even,
Phil, one of these days.
- [Chris] I wonder what
the end of Phil Hellmuth's
glasses earpiece taste like?
- [Joe] Gross.
- [Chris] I mean I
don't wonder enough
that I actually wanna
taste it for myself.
- [Joe] I was gonna say,
we could arrange that,
I'm sure.
- [Chris] Just speculating.
Alright, what say
you, Rep Porter?
- [Joe] All river value!
How much would he
sweet little bet!
Gonna be tough for Phil
to get away from this.
C'mon Phil, here you go.
- [Chris] Two aces.
- [Joe] It's always aces.
- [Chris] Oh, quiet Phil.
Quiet Phil makes me sad,
you almost feel bad for him.
- [Joe] Almost.
- [Chris] No, I do,
I'm serious this time.
Look at 'im.
It feels so unfair (bleep).
- [Joe] No wait, here we go.
(bleep)
- Even I get the
best hand sometimes.
I've seen it, if I can do it,
you can definitely do it, Rep.
- [Joe] I think Scott Ball
should continue to laugh,
sitting right next to 'im.
- [Chris] Feels
so unfair, my god.
- [Joe] Alright, here we go.
Keep it coming.
- [Chris] And you got the value
bet on when the nine paired,
which is very likely to have
nine, 10 of hearts there.
- Well played.
- Thank you.
- [Joe] I don't
think he means it.
- Champagne over
there, are we out?
- [Chris] Mike Ross
raises with ace 10.
- We would take those
and one more bottle.
- [Chris] So much champagne
at the table tonight.
- [Joe] Champagne
for my real friends
and real pain for
my sham friends.
- [Phil] Oh maybe if you
wanna try that, dude.
So tilted today.
Thank you.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
(bleep)
hops a fence with five seven.
Feels a little ridiculous.
- [Joe] Alright, what
have we got here?
Top pair for Bart,
gut shot for Maria,
up and down for Phil.
Not enough hearts for
Maria's liking, though,
she's outta here.
- [Chris] Ross bets 800, he
gets a call from Hellmuth.
- Is that 800?
- [Phil] I check.
- [Joe] Top pair still good.
- [Chris] If he can
slide past the turn.
- [Joe] Top pair's
still still good.
Checks around.
Top two pair now good.
- 2500.
- [Joe] And Hellmuth, with
no showdown value at all,
is trying to steal
this pot on the river,
I don't hate it.
- [Chris] If somebody
calls, he's going to.
- [Joe] That is absolutely true.
There's no way Bart can fold.
It's really hard for
him to be beat here,
but he can't raise
either because
the only hands that
can call are hands
that do have him beat.
He's got to worry
just a bit though,
because he's not
closing the action.
- [Chris] Good call, he got it.
- [Joe] That's tough to bluff,
a guy who rivers top two.
Sorry, Phil.
Still waiting for those
cards to break even.
(laughs)
Phil, why?!
- Stay tuned to find
out who actually
ended up a winner tonight.
It'll be okay.
(coughing)
It's okay.
- You know here's the thing, we
give him a hard time but we
get to play every week with the
Michael Jordan of poker.
And he really gives people tips
and he cares a lot about it and
I think at the end of the day
the friendship
means a lot to him.
- He might not be 27 year old
Michael Jordan, he may actually
be 52 year old Michael Jordan
but it's still Michael Jordan
and that means something.
It's a bless to have him in the
game.
- Yeah we love him.
- We love him.
- We love the Muth.
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Well, the day is over,
but we're not done.
Let's see who will and won't
be losing any sleep tonight.
Day one comes to a
close looking like this.
The ups and downs of the world
has Alan Richardson on top,
with Mark Kroon on the bottom.
And look at that, Bart
Hanson, right in the middle.
Actually nice day for
him, he started the day
12,000 down.
- [Joe] Doing an awesome
job Repping your family.
Well, Day One from Thunder
Valley is in the books,
which would be great if
I ever learned to read.
- Yeah, he can't even
go to the website.
But you can!
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(bleep)
Three, two.
- Come on, Phil,
we're almost there.
I want this more
than you want this,
I like you on top, come on baby!
- Dude.
That's really weird.
Sorry.
- Such a long pause, I
just couldn't handle it.
Alright, I'll tone
it down a little.
- [Chris] Oh he's gonna
put this one in of course.
