- [Announcer] From
Playground Poker Club
in Kahnawake, Quebec,
this is Poker Night in America.
(upbeat swing music)
(chips tumble down)
- What's up guys?
And welcome to Poker Night
Presents Party Poker Live
at the Playground
Poker Club in Montreal.
Manig Loeser,
fresh off a win at Triton
for over two million dollars,
joins the table with 20 grand.
Samuel Chartier and John
Duthie took a beating last time
and may look to dig themselves
back into North America.
- [Dealer] Double straddle, 200.
- [Doug] Cards back in the air.
Got a new player.
Perfect time for
the re-straddle.
- [Dealer] Fold.
- Raise 500.
- King jack off-suit for Mike.
Makes it 500 to
go in the cut-off.
- Fold.
- Yong lets his button go,
and I know how much
he hates doing that.
Ace king here for Lefrancois.
He's gonna bump it up,
the question is, how much?
(chips hit table)
1700, healthy size
re-raise.
Back to Mike with king jack.
- Call.
- And Mike makes the call.
Now, Mike does not have
too much behind here,
probably something in the
vicinity of 5,000 or so.
Jack, three, deuce.
All right, Mike, you might run
bad sometimes, but not here.
Very awkward spot for ace king.
- 1200.
- He bets small.
- All in.
- Mike jams.
- [Dealer] All in.
- I call.
- Call?
- And ace king makes the call.
- [Doug] Mike has successfully
gotten his money in
at 91 percent equity.
He's just lookin' for a hold.
Dentale secures his double up,
into the green on the sesh.
Got some playin' chips now.
Yong, who earlier raised
Mike's under the gun limp,
now just calls with a
six four of diamonds.
When you do limp re-raise
people under the gun,
you make them have to respect
your limps a little bit more.
- Raise.
- But I'll tell ya a hand
that doesn't need
any respect at all:
pocket rockets.
And we have pocket kings.
The classic poker cooler.
Someone is gonna
lose a lot of money,
it's probably gonna
be the guy with kings.
What will Loeser do here
with his cowboys?
(chips hit table)
- [Dealer] Raise.
Fold?
- Fold.
- Fold.
- I know you like that one.
- [Lefrancois]
Playing 20, right?
You bought 20?
- [Loeser] Yeah.
- [Doug] When Lefrancois
says, "You bought 20, right?"
what he really means is,
"Please tell me you have 20."
- Call.
- Smooth call here
with the aces, trying to keep
bluffs in Loeser's range.
If he knew he had kings,
he would certainly go
for all of it pre-flop.
Nine six five with two clubs,
reasonably solid flop
for both players,
but not a board they're
gonna look to slow play on.
- Check.
- However,
Lefrancois disagrees with me,
action goes check-check,
and the board pairs on the turn.
Loeser has to start to
value bet with his kings.
It's simply too
unlikely he's behind.
Sure, maybe his opponent
could have a hand
like seven six suited
once in a while,
but you can't be afraid
of monsters under the bed.
(chips hit table)
Unfortunately, though,
the monsters are
currently under the bed.
Aces is the hand
he's up against.
- [Dealer] Call.
- [Doug] We have a
15,000 dollar pot.
This is a card neither
player is super happy about.
I wouldn't be shocked
to see kings check here,
although he might look to
go all in to get some value
from hands like queens or jacks.
- Check.
- Loeser does check,
and now Lefrancois
has a clear all-in,
try to get the value.
Head in his hands,
"How could this happen?
"I guess I'm gonna
have to bluff."
Except he's not bluffing,
he's got the aces.
And when people look
pained like this,
you should probably be pretty
scared of what they've got.
- All in.
- [Dealer] All in.
Call.
- [Lefrancois] Two pairs.
- [Doug] Loeser makes the call,
sees the pocket rockets,
and wonders what could've been.
I guess sometimes it's better
to play tighter than Loeser.
- Just aces on the button
after you lose a pot.
(Expletive bleeped) great.
- Such a good feeling.
- Perfect.
(Lefrancois chuckles)
- Welcome back to
Poker Night Presents
at the Playground
Poker Club in Montreal,
where Manig Loeser was just
coolered for nearly 20 grand,
and now is first to act
after the double straddle.
- 600.
- [Doug] Ace five for
Loeser opens it up.
Gonna run into John
Duthie's jacks.
- What's the bet?
- Six.
- Call.
- Decides to only call.
Bit of a conservative play
here pre-flop from Duthie.
- Fold.
- I saw a deuce of spades,
sorry.
- All right,
deuce of spades is exposed.
- [Doug] First straddle
gets out of the way.
Over to Chartier.
- 24.
- [Doug] And he's bumpin' it
up with the ace king suited.
A couple of real powerhouse
hands here pre-flop.
Now what will Duthie decide
to do with his jacks?
He might decide to
just go with it here
if he thinks that
Chartier can be weak.
But he's just gonna
call and take a flop.
(players converse in French)
- [Lefrancois] I wasn't
paying attention.
(Chartier speaking French)
- [Doug] We get a flop
no one wants to see.
Ace king whiffs, and jacks
has to deal with an overcard.
- 2,000.
- Chartier decides
to kick this off
with a flop bet.
But Duthie's goin' nowhere.
- Call.
- [Doug] There are men
afraid of overcards,
and then there's John Duthie.
The turn pairs the board.
And Chartier decided to
slow down with his ace king.
- [Smith] Hit and miss.
Pretty hard to get into.
- [Doug] Duthie bets 2,000 here.
- Obviously all the guys
playin' are pretty good too.
- Call.
- [Doug] Eight on the river.
The flush draw bricks.
- Check.
- And once again Chartier
checks over to John Duthie.
- Little value bet.
- [Dealer] 2,000.
- That's a real sucker bet.
- [Yong] I think that's
quite a insulting bet.
(Chartier chuckles)
He seems a nice guy, eh?
- Eh?
- He's a very nice guy.
- No, he's a great guy,
he's a nice guy.
Clean t-shirt,
very sort of, yeah.
2K in tonight's game is like
slap to the face, innit?
- I mean,
when it comes to poker players,
he's one of the cleanest cut.
- [Chartier] I think I
need a haircut, though.
- [Yong] So why'd you
wanna insult the guy?
- [Duthie] I'm
not insulting him,
I'm just betting my hand.
- [Yong] Make it 10K,
or it's an insult.
- Call.
- King queen.
- [Doug] The thin value
bet gets paid off,
winning almost
20,000 dollar pot.
- That was a value bet.
- I like it.
- [Duthie] Thank you.
- A little value
never hurt anyone.
- [Yong] That's dirty.
- No, it's, uh-
- You're an honest man.
- Yeah.
- Just a little value bet.
- Just a little-
- It was a little value bet.
- It was.
- It was honest, yeah.
- [Doug] Poker Night
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All right guys, it's
about that time.
The blinds are up, it's 50, 100.
And no, we're not
playing a tournament,
but these guys are
looking to gamble.
- [Dealer] Raise, 300.
Raise, 900.
- [Doug] Yong is just straight
up picking on Dentale.
- 28.
- [Doug] Chartier now
makes it 2800 to go,
with a pretty weak
pre-flop hand.
Although, when you consider
what he's up against,
he's sittin' pretty.
Mike Dentale with king queen
facing a three-bet
and a four-bet,
can't really do much
except let his hand go.
Mike gets out of the way.
- Like, even on Wednesdays
and stuff like that.
Ended up being burned out
at the end of the month.
- Thought you were reaching
for the blue chips, Rob.
- [Doug] And Yong makes the call
with the seven six off-suit.
The graphic on the
screen is correct.
He has a seven and a six,
and they are not suited.
So I assume he's looking for
sevens and sixes at this point.
And that qualifies as a six.
- Are you going back
to Vancouver after ...
- Yeah, I'm going back
to Vancouver, so ...
- Check.
- Check.
Bet 3,000.
- [Doug] Yong bets
3,000 on the flop.
- [Smith] Well, I'm gonna
be here for a lot of it, so.
I don't have, like,
that good of a set-up,
it's just my laptop, so
I'll probably just jump in.
- [Doug] Chartier goes
for the check call.
- [Smith] Yeah, just in general,
it's gonna be hard to balance it
while I'm on the
road, you know, so ...
- Check.
- I don't know,
I'm gonna play a decent size
series, but nothing crazy.
- [Doug] Nothing
like a little casual
table-side conversation
in the middle of our hand.
- [Smith] Last year
I played a lot.
- [Doug] Guys, we're tryin'
to play some poker over here.
- I got, like, fourth
in the big one on Party.
- Okay, nice.
- Which,
like, it probably made me
break even for the month,
but at one point I was
down like 125 in a month
or something like that.
If you play, like,
the 10K reentries-
- [Doug] Chartier
makes the call.
I can't help but feel like
this is getting a bit
adventurous from both players.
I think Chartier could've
let it go here on the turn.
The river is a jack.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Doug] I don't think
Yong can go for value here.
I would be very impressed
if he did manage
to bet and get called,
but at some point
you have to wonder,
"Does my opponent have an
overpair and have me beat?
- Check.
- Ace high.
- [Dealer] Two pair.
Sixes and deuces.
- [Doug] I bet he feels robbed.
- Nice hand, Rob.
Two pairs as well.
Pas.
- Sorry, guys.
- [Doug] Yong straddling
up to 200 dollars.
You know, you have to say,
having Yong in the game,
good for action,
good for TV.
I'm glad he's in
there gambling it up.
Can't always get behind
some of those decisions, but
good for the game.
- I played against Manig before,
but I think a long time ago.
- Yeah.
- Long time ago, yeah?
- Probably Nottingham
or somewhere.
Uh, 600.
- I think I played you before.
I'm sure, I know
we played before.
- [Doug] Loeser raises
with five deuce suited.
- For sure.
- Where do you live, Manig?
- What's that?
- Where do you live?
- [Loeser] I live in
the UK now, in Brighton.
Moved from Ireland
to Brighton, yeah.
- [Doug] Mike comin' along
with the ten seven off,
in the big blind.
- Call.
- Yong has got seven six
off-suit once again,
takin' a flop.
- [Loeser] I was in Monte
Carlo yesterday, and then-
- [Doug] No one has
a card over a ten.
- [Duthie] Did you
get here in time
to buy into the high roller?
- [Loeser] No, I was
one day late, yeah.
- [Doug] Queen jack four,
bricks for both
Dentale and Yong,
but Loeser does
have a flush draw.
And Yong decides to
lead out on the flop.
What he's hoping for,
I don't know. Actually,
I do know, two folds,
but he doesn't get it.
And here comes the turn.
Loeser improves to a pair to
go along with his flush draw,
and Yong picks up an open-ender.
- You choose, you choose.
What do you want to bet?
I have to bet.
- Anything between
three and five is fine.
- [Dentale] Hey Anthony,
what's up, buddy?
- [Doug] 5,000 dollars
into a pot of around 4,000.
- One more card, all right.
- [Doug] With the
pair and flush draw,
Loeser's not going anywhere.
Deuce on the river gives Loeser
a very, very disguised
backdoor two pair.
- You got to ask me what
you bet, though, right?
- How much do you
want me to bet?
- Um ...
Between 1500 and 7500.
- [Dealer] Bet 20,000.
- Uh, this could be bad.
I hit that river, though.
- A deuce?
- Call.
- You win.
- [Smith] That was sick.
- [Yong] You had a nice
hand on the flop, then.
- [Doug] Just your
standard cooler, guys.
Pretty much aces versus kings.
- [Yong] You had a
nice hand on the flop.
- Top two feeling in poker,
backdooring two pairs.
- Manig Loeser makes
running two pair
to double through Rob Yong,
who was definitely
feeling unlucky
to not win that hand
with a river bluff.
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- 300.
- Duthie opens it up
with a jack five of diamonds,
way too loose with this
many players left behind.
- Call blind.
- Call.
- But not to be outdone,
Yong goes for the
completely blind call.
- [Yong] I think I'm a
favorite blind against you,
so why not play?
- Against me too.
- [Yong] Honestly,
probably, yeah.
- Raise.
- Normally I say,
"These guys are
playing some poker,"
but today I think I'm gonna say,
"These guys are just gambling."
And somehow he
has pocket eights.
How is that possible?
- [Yong] Do you think
you're gonna win this hand?
- [Chartier] Well, I hope so.
So far, not so good.
- [Yong] You looked kind
of confident a minute ago.
I mean, like,
what's wrong, mate?
- Yeah, after I won the
first pot of the night,
my first pot of the night.
Okay, let's see a flop.
- [Dealer] Call.
Check or bet?
Out of turn.
- [Yong] Uh-huh, but
he's gonna check.
- [Chartier] I check.
- [Dealer] Check.
The bet's 4,000.
- [Yong] You're losin'.
- [Dealer] Call.
- [Doug] Chartier going nowhere.
Ten of clubs comes on the turn.
Chartier picks up
the nut flush draw.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Doug] 7,000 dollar
bet here from Yong.
Got another pocket pair
versus Chartier's ace-high
situation developing.
- Definite non-believer
in the house.
- [Dealer] Call.
- [Doug] Selfishly,
I was rooting for
the eight of clubs
on the river, but
that's all right,
I'll take the king.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Doug] Chartier
still with ace high.
Yong has the pocket eights.
- [Yong] I don't
think I'm winning now.
- It's good.
- Two pairs.
- [Doug] Another large
pot to Yong and Chartier,
goes to Yong.
Chartier, man, he's always
got a pair, let it go.
You don't have to go the
distance with these ace highs.
Raise,
300.
- [Doug] Pocket
rockets for Loeser.
Opens it up, raise
it to 300 dollars.
And Duthie looks down
at king queen suited.
- Call.
- In position, not a bad play.
Dentale with a king deuce
here flats in the small blind.
- Raise.
- And Chartier,
who has been
constantly re-raising,
is at it again with
this nine eight suited.
Now, if it was heads up,
Loeser might call
and set the trap,
but it's not heads up,
it's four-way,
so he's got to make it a price
that if people wanna draw,
they're gonna have to pay.
It's gettin' to about
that time of the night
where Mike's gonna complain.
- I had a 48 dollar hand,
I turned it into
a 300 dollar hand,
and I get punished.
Maybe it's like 49 dollars.
- Fold.
- [Doug] Now Chartier has
a legitimate decision here
with the nine eight suited.
Does he call, or does he fold?
- [Dealer] Call.
- [Doug] He's gonna call,
because they are pretty deep.
And in case Loeser needed
some help, he got it,
but he didn't need help.
And now his opponent,
with the exception
of a backdoor flush,
or a backdoor straight,
is drawing virtually dead.
Loeser has a tough spot here.
He could bet or he could check.
If he bets, he's gonna
get no action at all.
But he is gonna bet 3,000,
which should shut things down,
but it's starting to scare me
that Chartier has
not yet folded.
I mean, what's he
thinking about?
You got nine high.
Let's just let it go.
Live to fight another day.
- [Dealer] Call.
- [Doug] Well,
he's takin' a turn.
And the four of clubs peels off.
The backdoor flush
is now in play.
13 percent chance to hit.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Doug] Now, what
Loeser has to decide here
is, what's more
important to him?
Protecting the board from
coming off a deuce or a six,
or is it more important to
bet and try and get some value
for some hands his
opponent can have?
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Doug] He decides to check.
And the river comes
the queen of hearts.
Now Chartier has reached the
concluding chapter of his book.
It's a short story,
and there weren't
many good chapters,
but we still have
one left to write.
What will he do here
with his nine high?
Will he surrender, or will he
give it everything he's got
and come up empty-handed?
- 11,500.
- I don't like that look
in the end, but (laughs)
I don't think I'm gonna fold.
- Call.
- Board.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- [Doug] Chartier has been
goin' hard in the paint,
and it has not been paying off
against most of his opponents.
Samuel Chartier continues
to inflict maximum pain
upon himself.
It might be time to
Costanza this thing
and just go with the
opposite of your gut.
Back to wrap things up here
on Poker Night after this.
- [Doug] We did start
with blinds at 25, 50,
and bounced around a
little bit at that level.
Samuel Chartier is in the
hole almost 1400 big blinds,
which has to be
some kind of record.
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