- [Voiceover] From SugarHouse
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
this is Poker Night in America.
(exciting music)
- It's a game of of thrones
tonight as the top three
cheese-steak kings in the city
of Philadelphia battle it out
at our table for the cash, the
glory, and the ultimate prize
of a huge order that will be
placed by our gracious host
here at SugarHouse.
Plus, we'll step away from
the table and see the place
where the Philly cheese was
perfected.
By the way, I'll take mine whiz
wit.
Well, as day two continues
here at SugarHouse
let's take a look at how
much money everyone's
got in front of them.
The two biggest stacks are
Shaun Deeb and Dan Shak.
So far, the people
who've lost the most money
at the table are Phil Hellmuth,
already down one buy-in,
and Geno Vento, one of
the cheese-steak kings.
- I was lucky, one of the
best tournaments I ever played
in my life, I happened to win
also.
It didn't have to happen
like that, that's for sure.
- [Torelli] Say the least.
Yeah, it's hard to win.
Ah, I.
- I finally flopped a set.
- [Hanson] A lot of sets
flopped here at SugarHouse
on Poker Night here in America.
This time it's Tony Luke Jr.
Owner, obviously, of Tony
Luke's.
Tom Schneider calls as he picks
up
the gut shot straight flush
draw.
And, over to Chad Holloway
for 500.
He does have top pair.
And he calls.
And Schneider calls.
River gives Schneider the flush.
What a great spot for Tom
Schneider to get paid off.
With Tony Luke flopping the
set, you know he's gonna be
willing to put money into this
pot.
He bets five hundred.
Call from Holloway, and
now, maybe Schneider has
some doubt creeping in
about how good his flush is.
Not enough to stop
him from betting, though.
Here comes a raise to twenty
four hundred.
- [Dealer] All-in.
- I knew you had it, I knew it.
- [Hanson] And there it
is, it's not gonna show up
on the chip count, but,
with Tony burning off
the rest of his $5,000
buy-in, that means he will
be buying dinner for both Frank
and Geno.
- I couldn't fold that.
Good game, gentlemen.
- Good game.
- Nice playing with you.
- Good playing with you.
- Pleasure.
- And then there were two.
- [Hanson] Well, we lost
Tony Jr. from Tony Luke's,
but I think seat four got a
lot better looking, no offense.
Jessica Dawley, Poker Night
in America veteran, will
sit down in the four seat.
Dan Shak is in the straddle for
a hundred.
Geno Vento, from Geno's Steaks,
calls.
Tom Schneider, from, well
from greatjackets.com,
he calls.
- [Dawley] Happy days.
- Yeah.
- I love the very patriotic.
- Yeah, were in Philly, why
wouldn't you?
- It's not Fourth of July,
but still, you gotta rep it.
- Right.
- Memorial Day's coming up.
- Liberty Bell here.
- [Hanson] Kinda wonder why
Olivieri
didn't raise with kings.
This is what happens when you
do have amateurs at the table,
because what happened
is, he just let Dan Shak
and Tom Schneider into this
hand.
Olivieri bet 500 on the flop.
Shak calls.
- All in.
- [Hanson] Vento's
all-in for his last 600.
- What in the world is
going on in this game?
- Good luck down, there.
Win this one here.
- Yeah, good luck.
- Yeah.
- [Dawley] Get back in it.
- Otherwies I'm going back
to making cheese steaks.
- [Dealer] 500 on the side.
- [Hanson] The main pot has
2,900 in it.
The side pot, now at 1,500.
As we're going to the river.
Shak bets 1,500.
Both Shak and Schneider's
kickers wont play,
and so, if Schneider calls,
they're gonna chop up
what money is in the pot.
- Alright.
- [Hanson] And that's
what he does, he calls.
Now, Frank Olivieri is throwing
money in
that will be split up between
these two
if he calls the 1,500.
- Are you trying to call?
- [Hanson] And that he does.
- Yeah, I'm gonna call.
That's what I'm trying to do.
- I'll take his, I'll take his
hand.
- You owe 1,500.
- Oh, you took some back?
Oh, okay.
- I'm taking Geno and
I'm taking the other guy.
- There's a seven, who else has
a seven?
- [Hanson] Phil's got
this one sniffed out.
- [Dawley] Geno's Steaks, roll
it over.
He's got, something, what's he
got?
- It's two pair.
- [Hanson] So to break this down
real easy, Dan Shak and
Tom Schneider will chop
the entire pot, and Geno
Vento's day will be done.
So, congratulations to Frank
Oliviero from Pat's Steaks,
he is the best poker
playing cheese-steak king
of Philadelphia, at least today.
- It is with deep regret--
(laughter)
- That I hand you this plaque
as the best of the three
of us in this poker
tournament, right now, buddy.
- [Vento] Thank you very much.
- Congratulations.
- I'm honored.
Thank you, thank you very much.
- [Hanson] Congratulations
to Frank Olivieri for winning
the Cheese-stake King
title at tonight's table.
Last episode, we stopped by
Frank's restaurant as part of
our Philly cheese-steak tour.
And now, it's time to head
across the street for another
whiz witt at the world
famous Geno's Steaks.
Alright so, this is a place not
too many people get to be.
We are inside Geno's Steaks.
Normally, people order up
from the windows, but, we are
actually inside with the
man Geno Vento himself.
Thanks for having us.
- Hey Chris.
- And Wendy.
- Wendy, long time friend.
- I can't believe you got this
set up.
That we actually get to eat
inside Geno's
for our taste test today?
- I'm kind of a big customer.
They take care of me here.
- There's a language
that we, that I'm told,
we're supposed to pick up on.
- There is a little bit of a
language.
Kind of like poker, yeah.
Onions, your wit, wit,
that means wit, with onions,
right?
- [Hanson] Okay.
- If you're eating a
real Philly cheese-steak,
it's cheese whiz, so it's whiz.
- So, I like mine with--
- [Vento] So we say whiz wit.
- With whiz and with onions,
so I would go to the window
and I would say "Whiz wit."
- Now, what if I don't want
onions?
- Then you just, you can say
nothing.
- Whiz without.
- Or you can say wit-out.
- [Hanson] Whiz wit-out.
- Wit-out.
- So, are you actually gonna
make a cheese-steak for us?
Or, are you gonna make
your staff do it for us?
- I was gonna have you make it.
- You want me?
- Yeah, I'm gonna teach you
how to make a Philly
cheese-steak.
(energetic music)
- So, you're gonna hold
it like a deck of cards.
- Okay, like that?
- So, basically, fan it
out, so, when you throw it,
it will all come together.
'Cause, if you don't get
it, it's gonna all clump.
- This one's for Phil Hellmuth.
This one's for Geno.
That one's for Tom Schneider.
- You want to, kind of,
make it more uniform.
- [Hanson] Oh, okay.
I'm supposed to do it in order.
- [Vento] Yeah.
- Start at the bottom?
- Yep, perfect.
- [Hanson] Like that?
- Yep, you want to do it over
the grill.
- Oh, okay.
Yeah, you don't wanna get the
floor messy.
- Now, the onions.
- [Hanson] Onions.
- That's it, that's your
Philly cheese-steak.
- I just made a Geno's
Philly cheese-steak.
- With my spatula.
- Look at that, that's
history right there.
Oh.
Oh man.
I probably shouldn't be eating
over here.
- Wait, you got it here.
- I'm a mess.
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- Sup, guys?
- [Hellmuth] Hi Andy, how are
you?
- How's everyone?
- [Dawley] It's Franken-muth.
- Nice to see you.
- Hi.
- Nice to see you.
- [Hanson] Vento is gone from
seat eight,
and, sitting down in his
place, Poker Night in America
welcoming back Andy
Frankenberger.
Or, as he was known on previous
episodes, "Frankenmuth."
Frank Olivieri still left in
seat six from
the cheese-steak kings.
- [Frankenberger] Did
you watch the series?
- [Hanson] He's from Pat's King
of Steaks.
Hellmuth calls a straddle with
Ace, King.
- I don't care if he was
innocent.
When you chop up a body,
just because you're afraid
of how it might look otherwise,
that's,
that's not the right approach.
- I mean, obviously, he
shouldn't of done the show
to begin with.
- [Frankenberger] Right.
- I think he almost wanted
to just brag about it.
- [Frankenberger] Did you
watch the whole series?
- [Shak] Not really, and I
knew the director, 'cause
my father used to work
with the director's father.
- 900.
- [Hanson] Hellmuth with
Ace high, makes it 900.
- Hey Andy, you, you came from
Manhattan?
Train, or?
- No, I just came from Borgata.
- Oh, Borgata.
- [Frankenberger] Yeah.
- [Hanson] Andy Frankenberger,
brand new to our table,
but, not brand new to
Poker Night in America.
He's the artist formally
known as "Frankenmuth."
Although, I was told he
doesn't really like the name.
I can't blame him, so, that'll
probably be the last time
we call him "Frankenmuth."
Except, I just did it again.
Torelli decided to get out of
the way.
Holloway calls Hellmuth's raise,
so let's see what happens on the
turn.
It's a nine of diamonds.
- 16.
- [Hanson] Hellmuth with just
Ace high,
but he's got $1,600 to
try to convince Holloway
that he's got the winning hand.
- Chad, you read me well, let's
see,
now's a test of that.
I'm not showing this one,
either.
It's going in face down, so.
- [Deeb] Oh, come on now.
- [Dawley] You just
always look like you want
to murder somebody.
- I've, that is the least,
like, no one has ever
described me like that.
Tom, you've played like
a lot of hours with me.
- [Hanson] Holloway calls.
- [Deeb] I'm just, like, so
tired.
- No, he always looks like he
just murdered somebody.
Not like he's going to,
like he already did, yeah.
- Check in the dark.
- I'm Robert Durst Jr.
- It's decaying right now, as we
speak.
- [Dawley] Yeah, oh, that's that
smell.
When I went outside, I smelled
something.
- Jack.
- [Dawley] It's the
dead body in his trunk.
- Good call.
- [Hanson] And they
both check on the river.
- [Hellmuth] That's a great
call.
- Nice call.
- [Deeb] You got rewarded
for the straddle.
- Once they start
puttin' a lot of money in
with top pair, no kicker, they,
usually the amateurs fall apart.
- [Hanson] Blinds are 25
and 50 in this cash game.
- [Hellmuth] It's like the
wheels fall off
and you can only play good
for so long, you know.
- You're a better bluffer
than a bluff catcher, Alec.
- If you're not a professional,
like,
the wheels always fall off.
'Specially under the lights.
- [Toerlli] Maybe.
- [Hellmuth] It's hard man,
it's hard to just sit there
and be patient, you know.
- Raise.
- Very hard.
- Yeah, for sure.
Poker's a boring game
if you wait for hands.
- It's killing me, waiting.
And then I wait for
Ace, King, and then I,
he made a good call.
Gotta give him credit.
- He's gotta--
- [Hellmuth] But yum yum in a
few minutes.
Yum yum.
- [Hanson] Deeb's Aces
and Dan Shak's nines
go to the flop.
- [Torelli] Coulda bet the river
with it.
Maybe he folds.
It's hard to bluff the
river there, though.
- [Dawley] What was the river
card?
- [Torelli] Uh, an eight.
- Oh, I can't put him on Jack,
Deuce.
I thought Jacks with a straight
draw.
- [Torelli] Yeah.
- 'Cause you, he can't beat
anything with Jack, Deuce,
except for a pure bluff.
- [Torelli] The river, the
river's hard to bluff if
you're--
- Yeah, I can't--
- [Hanson] You've already seen
both of the nines get folded
so, Shak is drawing dead.
- The things that you guys
are saying are the things
that I think when I'm
watching you play poker
and reporting on it.
- Yeah, see, he's learned.
- It worked that time.
Next time, next time you
call me with, no, I just don't
want you next time you
make a big call on me,
just don't hit like your
miracle out, that's all I'd ask.
That's fair, right?
Like, if I get you trapped in
10 minutes and you're drawing
almost dead, just don't hit it.
It would be fair.
(Dawley sighs)
- 'Cause I'm gonna trap you.
I've limped with every big hand
I've had.
- I told my friends before
I came, I said, "It'd be
"either nice to win, or to get
the old Hellmuth berating."
But this is, this is tame.
- Not berating.
- [Holloway] Yeah, this is tame.
This isn't a berating.
- No, this is not beratious.
- This is lessons, lessons.
- [Dawley] This is crying.
- This is, this is just, when
I have you dead in a minute
don't hit it, that's
like begging, you know.
- The one seat--
- He's begging.
- The one seat is always
hot at Poker Night, it crushes.
- Once I get people putting
the money in bad against me,
I just don't want them to hit
it.
- Well, you gave him the
speech, that's why he called.
Talked him right into it.
- Right, and when I have the
nuts,
I'm gonna give him the same
speech.
- [Dawley] Yeah I know.
- [Holloway] In fairness, you
didn't raise with Ace, King.
- No, I was limping
with Aces, or Ace, King.
You got the benefit of
the Ace, King bluff.
- That's what happens
when you limp, I think.
- [Hanson] Raise to 3,900 from
Shak.
- I feel like you had it.
- Thank you for the lesson,
Jessica.
- I've learned my lesson with
limping.
Cost me a lot.
- I'm sure you have.
I've learned my lesson from
limping, too.
I won eight million limping.
But, I won 14 million not
limping, so, it's close.
- Yeah, that is close.
- The wizards are doing
it more now, right?
- [Dawley] Yeah.
- Well, they've, yeah
they've, they watch me.
- They're crushing me
from the big with Jacks.
Just flatting from the big
with Jacks.
- [Frankenberger] I wish I had
a flatted of Jacks, yesterday.
- You were in a 15 K buy-in
tournament.
I was in a $280 buy-in
tournament, I folded Queens,
and Ace, King before the flop on
day one.
(laughter)
- That's a true story.
Yeah, I couldn't help it,
my instincts took over.
- Yeah, I mean, if you're
gonna sit down and play
a $280 tournament, you
should play your best,
otherwise, you just shouldn't
play the tournament.
- Yeah, for me it was the
fifth tournament I've played
in five months.
So, to me, I was like--
- That's probably why
you're on top of your game,
you're like chomping
at the bit to survive.
- No, my instincts went
haywire, that's what it was.
- Suppose it's never
about the money anyway,
so, why not fold?
$280 tournament, what's the
difference?
- [Hellmuth] I don't think
it's about the money.
- Why have you been playing
so few tournaments lately?
Resting up for the World Series,
or?
- No, I mean, I've got a lot
of--
- Other things?
- A lot of appearances and...
I've got a lot going on, girl.
- [Dawley] Oh, I know, I know.
- A little busy.
Crushing, crushing.
I was just curious if
there was, if you're like--
- Yachting in the Carribean.
It's been pretty rough.
- Oh, the life of Phil.
- [Dawley] You playing a lot
this summer?
- [Hanson] Check, check on the
river,
and Shaun Deeb, your money.
- [Dawley] Nice hand, Shaun.
- Shoulda raised the turn.
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Let's return to the table.
- If I woulda had, like, 10,000
in front of me, I woulda bet
the flop with Ace, Jack, eight.
Five K, I'm gonna let him--
- [Torelli] Protect, yeah.
- Yeah.
If I had ten, I might protect
it.
- [Torelli] You could
Martingale.
You just buy-in five, and
then buy-in ten, and then
buy-in 20.
At some point, you gotta start
buying in more than five.
- Well, I'm used to--
- Raise it up.
- I'm used to having
people draw dead, and,
you know, at some point,
when you play this tight,
but, somehow they always hit it.
- Where are we?
- [Hellmuth] It's easy to get,
you finally flop a set
and they have top pair and
he's,
he just showed
the world to call me
with top pair, so.
- [Torelli] That's true.
- It's coming.
I can't have them keep
outdrawing me.
- [Hanson] Welcome to the
Phil Hellmuth therapy hour.
Just talking his way
through it.
- Check dark.
- It's not that hard.
- [Holloway] Check dark.
- Folding.
- Oh, the pressure.
- [Torelli] No, it's not hard,
it's just--
- [Hellmuth] It's not that
hard to get people drawing dead
eventually, or in bad shape,
right?
Obviously, I use the
term drawing dead loosely.
- [Torelli] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's amazing how bad they
get the money in against me
on a regular basis.
But, Chad just showed everybody
the light.
It's so sweet for me.
I just need,
I just need a hand.
- Problem is, it's hard to make
a hand with only two cards.
Takes a long time.
- It's when I do my best
work, after a bluff.
- But I'm, I'm really steamed
up right now, I'll tell you
that much.
- You're enjoying this.
- I am.
- I finally flopped a set,
and make a great play,
and I run into the Ace, I mean,
I'm steamed right now, I really
am,
like, starting to get the steam.
I'm steaming.
- [Hanson] I'm not sure, do
all of us charge Phil Hellmuth
a hundred and fifty dollars
an hour for time on the couch?
- [Dawley] Steaming.
- All-in.
- [Hanson] Oh, Shaun Deeb,
that's nasty!
- [Oliveri] I can't be here all
night.
- [Hanson] The next cheese-steak
you have in this town
might be your last, buddy.
- Good game.
- Thank you, guys, it was fun.
- Very nice playing with you.
- Play great.
- [Dawley] Nice hand, Shaun.
- Nice meeting you.
- [Holloway] Frank, been a
pleasure.
- [Hanson] And, that will
do it for Frank Olivieri,
the longest lasting of the
three cheese-steak kings
of Philadelphia.
- [Oliveri] Thank you very much.
- [Hanson] So, as Frank
Olivieri heads back
to the cheese-steaks, we are now
joined
by Karina Jett in his
place, wedged in between
Dan Shak and Phil Hellmuth.
- You had, you had, what did you
have?
You had eight high, right,
Shaun?
Some horrible hand like eight
high, right?
- I had an eight in my hand,
but, like,
I was much better than
the dog (bleep) you guys called
me with.
- I almost raised you.
I felt like you had nothing.
I almost raised.
- [Holloway] I'm actually
likin' Philadelphia a lot,
it's my first time here.
- It's an awesome, like,
I knew when I came here,
I was like, I, there's so many
cool,
each little suburb is so
different.
- I was a history major in
college, so just to be down
by all that stuff was awesome.
- [Deeb] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Hanson] Torelli raises with
nines.
Holloway calls, and then
Deeb takes it higher
to 600.
Karina Jett in the big blind
with eights.
She's gonna sit this one out.
- It's time to play some poker,
boys.
- [Shak] And?
And?
And?
- Roughly how much you playing
now?
- And?
- He doesn't recognize us.
- Phil, and?
Phil, and?
You're missing the second
part of that sentence.
- [Torelli] Like, 20 K.
- Okay.
- Geez.
Do you see what you're
missing in that sentence?
- Yes.
(Dawley and Jett laugh)
- So, be a gentleman and finish
it.
- And ladies.
- Thank you.
- He's like a little
kid that got in trouble.
- Is that so hard?
- Wow.
- Did you see that, like?
- I felt like a little
kid that got in trouble.
(laughing)
- Yes, dad.
- No, it's--
- Next time I'll just
punch you under the table.
- [Hanson] You know what, Phil?
I'm gonna give you back
that hundred and fifty bucks
for the last hour.
That's fine, you can have it.
That's well worth it.
Alright, so, back to the poker.
Torelli flops a set of nines,
but Holloway flops the straight.
1,100 is the bet from Torelli.
I wonder if Holloway is gonna
raise here.
He doesn't want to get
rid of Torelli quite yet.
He does raise to 3,500.
- Fold.
- Wow.
- [Hanson] Wow, what a
lay down from Torelli.
- Now you're playing the game.
Don't show that (bleep) because
of the, not even the players
at this table understand
what you just did.
- [Schneider] I don't
understand what just happened.
- There's only five or
six people on the planet
that understand how good
your play was right there.
Half the players at this table
think you made a bad play.
- I might have.
- [Hellmuth] So, don't show
that (bleep).
- Including Chad, including
Chad.
- They have no idea.
- [Hanson] You heard 'em.
Only six people in the
world know how good a play
Alec Torelli made there.
Tweet your guess who the
other four people are
to @Phil_Hellmuth
#justanotherdonkey.
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- Nobody at this table would've
folded that hand except me.
- Oh my God.
- Phil, you can't fold that
hand with your stack size.
- [Hanson] I don't know how
he didn't get deeper in that
last hand, but Alec Torelli
is, so far, not doing so great
at Poker Night in America,
but he did make the lay down of
the night.
He's down 5,900.
Our biggest winner tonight,
though, has been Chad Holloway
in the one seat.
He is up over $13,000.
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For everyone here at
Poker Night in America,
I'm Chris Hanson.
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And, by Draft Kings.
I know you, you like to get
along, but what makes yours
unique, or better than everybody
else's?
- I mean, we're all friends,
me, Tony, and Frankie,
and all that, but--
- No, don't say that.
That makes it less fun.
It was better when it was
like a cheese-steak war.
Cheese-steak war!
- I mean, yeah, but, you know.
- Alright, alright.
- At the end of the day,
we grew up together.
- We have steak peace.
- Yeah.
We are friends, we had dinner
last week, all together.
