- [Voiceover] From Rams Head
Center Stage at Maryland Live,
this is Poker Night in America.
[music]
- [Chirs] Welcome to Poker
Night in America.
I'm your host, Chris Hanson.
In this episode, we begin
a new cash game series
In the Rams Head
Center Stage Nightclub
at Maryland Live in
Hanover, Maryland.
At tonight's table, you'll
see some familiar faces,
as well as some veterans
of the Baltimore scene
to give our game
some local flavor.
Plus a little later
on, we send a crew
to Washington DC to see if it
really is a house of cards.
- [Brian] I'm just
trying to continue--
- [Chris] Buy-ins on
Poker Night in America
are from 5,000 to 20,000.
Most the players in the
middle of those two numbers.
Russel Thomas gets the
odd buy-in award today.
12,550 dollars.
As we head to the felt
here at Maryland Live.
- [Phil H.] How many chips
did you have on that?
What was your peak in the main?
- [Brian] 4,000,000.
- [Phil H.] You just
got unlucky or--
- [Brian] I lost the big
one in a three bet pot
with 10 nine on nine,
eight, nine eight six against
aces.
It's kind of a tricky
spot with stack sizes.
Against a good player.
- Was that your
first time then?
- First time
cashing in the main.
- [Phil D.] Cool.
- [Brian] Sixth time playing.
- [Phil D.] Oh
wow, very exciting.
- [Chris] Phil
DePalo raises to 300.
He gets a call from both
Merson and Tom Schneider.
- How old are you, Hastings?
- [Brian] 26.
- Six times you played
the main event already.
- [Brian] Yeah, I
mean, I turned 21
and then I played
the main event like
two weeks afterwards.
So...
[chuckles]
- How many times
you played, Phil?
- [Brian] Yeah.
- [Phil H.] I played
every year since 1988.
- [Chris] Two pair
for Schneider.
- [Phil H.] I was 23
my first main event.
In my day 20, Playing at 23.
- [Brian] Did you win
the first time you played?
- No, I won the
second time I played.
- [Chris] DePalo bets 600 on
the flush draw.
- First time I played,
I had the chip lead
and I was deep and
there was this guy
named Johnny Chan who I
actually had never heard of.
(laughing)
- [Phil H.] And I
tried to bluff him.
There were like, a four club
board and I had two red eights.
And he called me with two pair.
And then, like, a
half an hour later,
he had Jacks, I had 10s and
we were all in.
After came
seven, eight, nine.
- You know, Johnny Chan
won it back-to-back
and then,
- [Phil H.] He won it that year.
- Third year.
- [Phil H.] He won it
in '87 and then '88.
- And he took second
the next year to you.
Right?
- [Phil H.] Yeah.
- That's pretty sick.
- [Chris] And here comes
the big raise from
Schneider with those two pair.
- [Phil H.] Yeah, I was
ready for him the next year.
- [Chris] Bumping
it up to 3,000.
- They should've just
made Rounders about you.
(laughing)
- [Phil H.] They...
The producers came to ask me,
the Weinstein brothers
were in Vegas.
And they wanted a
meeting with me,
but I didn't know who they were
and it was a day
before the main event.
- [Russell] Wait,
when, this year?
- [Phil H.] Oh,
no no, like '99.
- [Robert] Bet he regrets
not taking that meeting.
(laughing)
Right?
- [Phil H.] Yeah,
and Chan took the meeting
and he's in the movie.
(laughing)
It was the day before the main.
I'm not meeting with anybody
the day before the main.
(laughing)
I mean, come on.
- I can only imagine
what your routine's
like the day before the main.
- Well, it's just relax
as much as possible.
I get way too hyped up
before the main event.
I don't know about you, but--
- [Brian] I do too.
Like, every day when I was
playing the main this year,
I was waking up at, like, 8am.
We'd play until 12:30,
I'd go to bed at two,
two or three and
wake up at eight.
- [Phil H.] Yeah, that's tough.
- How'd that work out for you?
- I got 64th.
- Well, 7,000 players.
- Not bad.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Not as good as these
guys, but someday.
- [Joe] Someday.
- [Chris] He will call.
- [Dealer] Call.
- [Chris] Poker Night is
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Jack on the turn.
- [Tom] All in.
- [Chris] Check and an
all in from Schneider.
- [Dealer] Call.
- [Chris] And a call from
Merson.
- [Tom] Once or twice?
- I only wanna go once.
- [Tom] One time?
Alright.
- [Chris] Merson also picked
up a straight draw on the turn.
- [Tom] Have to?
Alright.
- [Russel] Got a lot of outs.
- [Chris] River's another Jack.
- [Robert] Wow.
- [Chris] And Tom
Schneider is gonna
scoop our first
pot of the night.
Which is a whopper,
almost 20,000 dollars.
- [Greg] Ah, he has me covered.
- I can't stand
PLO live cash, like
everybody always asks me
why I don't play PLO live.
And it's like,
nine-handed PLO--
- That's even dumber, yeah.
- Worst game of all time.
- [Robert] The
worst of all time?
-I can't stand it.
- [Tom] Wow,
Robert, Robert.
That's like he's making
fun of your kids.
- [Robert] Wow.
- [Dealer] We've got a raise.
- It's just such a
bad game, nine handed.
- [Chris] Brian
Hastings is gonna open
it up with ace, Jack.
- [Brian] Entirely different
game than six handed.
- I am dangerous
- [Tom] Alright, let's
have a nice friendly--
- That I'll agree with, it
is entirely different game.
- [Tom] Nice
friendly little pot, Joe.
- [Brian] I played one live
PLO session this summer--
- [Joe] We're all friends now.
- [Chris] Schneider calls
with aces and that induces
a bunch of players to come
along and see the flop.
- [Brian] It gets raised in
three bet and I just fold.
Then three hands
later, some spot
gets stacked and
the game breaks.
Great game.
- [Chris] Hastings
pairs his Jack,
but Schneider's still
ahead with the overpair.
- 800.
Call.
- [Chris] Greg Merson bet 800
with his open-ended
straight draw.
You got a call from Schneider.
Hastings probably wondering
what he got himself into here.
He raised pre-flop and then
he hits top pair, top kicker.
There's all kinds of betting
going on around here.
- [Brian] 3,000.
- [Dealer] 3,000 the raise.
- [Chris] He's
gonna make it 3,000.
- [Tom] All in.
- [Dealer] All in
has been announced.
- [Chris] Schneider's
now all in.
- [Brian] I call.
- [Dealer] Call.
- [Chris] And a
call from Hastings.
So, let's just get the
night going with a couple of
20,000 dollar
pots here tonight.
- That's not a good hand
to run into.
- [Chris] This
one worth 18,875.
- [Dealer] They're
running it twice.
- [Robert] Wow, ace
of diamonds too.
- I really wanted to
stick it in so bad.
- I was really
rooting for a shove.
- I mean, after that long, yeah.
- [Phil D.] Oh my--
(laughing)
- It's good to win
the first one, though.
- I said once.
- [Chris] Alright. 
So Hastings does win
the first one.
- [Phil H.] Well, he's dead.
There's no more Jacks.
- [Chris] With trip Jacks.
- [Phil H.] That's
good news for you.
I had king jack.
- [Tom] Man, how sick is that?
- Alright, give him a diamond.
- Oh my Gosh.
- [Tom] I got the Ace.
- He has ace of diamonds.
- Oh he does, he does.
- Chop it up.
- [Tom] Wow.
- Chop it up.
(laughing)
- [Phil H.] God.
- "Chop it up," he says.
- That's the guy that chopped
the tournament yesterday.
You actually thought your hand
was gonna hold up against him?
He's running so hot right now.
- [Chris] Stick around, there's
plenty more poker to come
from Rams Head Center
Stage at Maryland Live.
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- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America.
I'm your host Chris
Hanson, let's get
back to the cash game.
- Let lying dogs lie.
Don't beat a dead horse.
- [Phil H.] And Tom Schneider's
moving in with like a...
- You got to call him.
- Ten deuce.
- Four, six yesterday, yum yum.
This is gonna be some big pots.
- [Tom] Yeah, I know.
- [Joe] He could've
called, right?
- Why did Shaun Deeb get
stuck 35K and get out.
That's insane.
- [Robert] Even worse I helped,
I started the rally for him.
I gave him my stack.
- It was unbelievable
that he did it.
Well, it was set over set.
(talking over each other)
(laughing)
- [Brian] That's
really something.
- [Tom] Alright, let's do it.
- He got in, like 15K,
blind versus blind.
With Glantz, with
ace queen verse ace king.
- [Greg] Glnatz is
such a nit, right?
- Yeah, it's the only fit.
- [Russell] Deeb was
playing so loose.
I think he was like--
- [Chris] Four players to
the flop that has two kings.
- [Russell] Yeah, he was
just playing super loose.
- Yeah, I mean, I used
to play like that.
I can relate to,
like, being like--
- [Chris] Everyone
checks to the turn.
- [Brian] Raising
100% and it's like,
feeling the need to, like, put
as much money in as possible.
- [Chris] He bets 500.
Robert Williamson III picks
up a flush draw on the turn.
- [Greg] The equivalent of
getting it in with like,
ace 10 like five years ago,
online, it's
(bleeps) insane.
In the stars--
- [Phil H.] Yeah, you young
internet kids could
never fold ace queen.
It was always, never folded it.
- (Greg) Yeah.
- [Chris] Dumpster
Joe makes the call.
- [Phil H.] Times
have changed boys.
Times have changed.
- [Chris] And the river
is a queen of diamonds.
And so Dumpster Joe's
got the full house.
Williamson missed on his draw.
- You don't see a board like
that very often, do you?
- [Chris] That
doesn't mean he's not
gonna bet and try
to take this pot.
- [Brian] Yeah,
you're right though.
A few years ago, I mean,
you'd just see like,
ace jack versus eights
all in pre, like on the regular.
- [Greg] Yeah.
- I just got a Jack.
- I got king Jack, king queen
actually.
- [Chris] Dumpster Joe's
gonna win his first
pot here in his home casino.
- If you can't guard a guy
with his butt on the ground,
then you are not very athletic.
- No I know, I mean,
I'm not very athletic.
- [Tom] No, what I'm--
- [Brain] I can do that.
- [Tom] I think--
- Do you resemble that remark?
- [Phil H.] Well,
I think if he gets,
I'm thinking about
it, if he gets all,
like, let's just say that
he puts a bunch of, like,
grease on his shorts
and he runs and slides,
you can't defend
that if he's sliding
towards the hole and shoots it.
- [Brian] I mean, it's
so tough though, to
like shoot a sliding
runner, I mean.
I know Huck's like good
at some weird stuff.
- All he has to
do is hit the rim?
- [Brian] No, all I have
to do is hit the rim.
All I have to do
is hit the rim.
- [Russell] Dude,
you're a huge favorite.
- [Brian] He has to make it.
- [Russell] You're
a huge favorite.
- How could he not be a monster
favorite?
- [Tom] Brian, I think Stephen
Hawking could guard him.
(laughing)
- [Chris] It sounds
like a basketball prop bet
that I would actually
like to see happen.
- Well, the other
side's argument is
how am I gonna score?
- [Russell] You just
have to hit the rim.
- [Brian] Yeah I
know, but he's 6'6
and like, really athletic.
- [Chris] And
that's how you play
seven deuce if you're Butts.
- You're still gonna
be able to lob balls--
- [Chris] Dumpster
Joe hits two pair,
Williamson with top
pair, top kicker.
- [Brian] After he
shoots, I can just
get rebounds and quickly, like,
get out to the three
point line while--
- Yeah, yeah, seems
like it, I mean.
- Yeah.
- [Phil H.] Man, I, I
wanna bet your side.
- [Tom] So, when
he's dribbling,
he has to then stop--
- [Brian] Talk to Ivy
or I think Gabe
likes that side.
I forget who else.
- The problem is that Huck
never loses prop bets.
- [Brian] Yeah, I know.
- He's beat me
for a lot of money.
- [Brian] Scary, scary.
- He might have done that
prop bet before, possibly.
Did he say?
- I want at least,
like, more information
and like, we
haven't negotiated,
like, what we'd play up to--
- [Williamson] All in.
- [Brian] or anything.
- [Russell] Yeah.
- The bet's not done yet.
- [Russell] He should
practice against someone good.
- I call.
- [Russel] At the Y, just
pay them a 100 bucks.
- [Chris] We are just
accumulating huge pots here
tonight on Poker
Night in America.
- Once or twice?
- Twice is fine.
- [Robert] Twice is fine.
We're doing them twice.
- [Chris] They're gonna
run this one twice.
- I thought you were a
once kind of guy, Robert.
- [Chris] Dumpster
Joe Butts is ahead.
(laughing)
- [Tom] Whoa!
- [Chris] Alright,
so Williamson now
picks up a flush draw.
- [Tom] That's
a very big card--
(talking over each other)
- If it's a deuce of diamonds,
it's fine.
- [Chris] Alright, the first
one will go to the Dumpster.
- One time for Dumpster!
Guaranteed not lose!
- [Joe] Deuce!
That's what we're
talking about!
Alright.
- [Phil H.] Can still tie.
- Oh, that's true, that's true.
- [Phil H.] Can still tie.
- [Robert] Seven, seven.
Oh!
- [Chris] Dumpster Joe takes
seven deuce
and not only wins the
first one,
but also the second one.
- [Brian] Yeah, he's
got flags and stuff.
- [Audience] Two for
The Dumpster!
- [Chris] And he is gonna
take the entire stack
off of Robert Williamson III.
- [Phil H.] You know, there's
gonna be more fluctuations
when you play with Concrete
Joe and Dumpster Joe,
but they can take you
out in any given hand.
And they, you know, I
think that Dumpster Joe
really smashed Robert
Williamson good there.
- He's quickly becoming
America's heartthrob.
More Dumpster Joe
when we return
to Maryland Live on
Poker Night in America.
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is brought to you
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- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America.
We return to our
no limit cash game.
- Even though he's not--
- If they don't
come, it's live.
- I got you.
- [Robert] Yeah.
- It's like a sleeper.
- [Chris] Hastings
back in for
another 10,000.
- [Chris] Russell Thomas
gets it open with king 10.
Schneider calls with queen 10.
- Well, this just looks
like too much fun.
- [Chris] And
everybody's involved
here with a little
bit of something.
Five players see
the flop together.
Both Thomas and
Schneider hit their 10.
- [Robert] Made that
a little easier.
- [Chris] Call.
- [Robert] Oh, I'm
glad you said that.
- [Chris] They go check check
on the turn to the river.
- [Brian] Wasn't
gonna say anything
since he's playing a pot, but--
- [Joe] What happened?
- You have to pay
the dealer his tip.
- [Joe] Really?
- [Robert] He's kidding.
- [Phil D.] No, no.
- [Robert] He's kidding.
- [Joe] They got rewind on
that damn camera, right?
- [Phil D.] Well, it is
the first flop, actually.
So you don't even
have to hit rewind.
(laughing)
- [Chris] Had him
until the river.
- [Chris] And this
one, just a little
baby pot of just 9,500 dollars
for Tom Schneider.
Dumpster Joe Butts.
A living legend here
at Maryland Live.
- [Tom] What can you do?
If that's the rule,
that's the rule.
- [Chris] As we get
back to the 25, 50
no limit game here
at Maryland Live.
Action is on Dumpster Joe.
With aces.
Opens it up for 300.
- 900.
- [Dealer] 900 is a raise.
- [Chris] Brian
Hastings raises to 900.
And here comes some more.
We're up to 3,100.
- [Tom] It'd be cool if
you could bury your body,
like, instead of
burying it, they could
just place you on
the ground, face up.
In case, you know...
- [Robert] Just in case?
- [Tom] Just in case, you know?
Don't put me in the
ground, put me on, like
I don't care if a dog
comes and pees on me.
That's alright.
- [Robert] They have that.
It's called a mausoleum.
- [Chris] Wow, we are
going right down the road
to get at All Insville here.
- [Robert] You're enclosed.
- I wanna be outside
like on a golf course.
Like, I wanna be a
hazard on a golf course.
- All in.
- [Robert] Whoa.
- What's going on here?
Look at this.
We're talking about funerals
and these guys
are going all in.
- [Robert] Wow!
- [Chris] Hastings will
succumb to the pressure.
- This is what it's
like Maryland Style.
- Three deuce off, one time.
- [Joe] Thanks for stopping by.
- Show us, show him the,
show him the bull(bleep).
- Thanks for stopping by buddy!
(talking over each other)
- [Brian] Nothing to show.
- [Tom] Dumpster, dumpster.
- God, I wanted to
show cards so bad.
- [Tom] I liked that idea.
- I'd have shown you if you put
the rest off in
there, my friend.
- [Robert] I just wanna
be part of the party.
- [Tom] Have you seen the
movie Weekend at Bernie's?
- [Robert] My friends,
yeah, I love it.
My friends will probably
pour beer in my mouth.
I got some pretty sick friends.
- [Tom] Yes, yes!
- They'll probably
totally have me drinking.
- [Tom] Have, like
things on your feet
so your shoes are
like, containers?
You know?
(laughing)
So that they keep
storing the beer?
(laughing)
I love that idea.
Wish I had thought of that.
- [Robert] I mean, I figure
I've had so much
fun in life,
why not have fun in death too?
- [Tom] Yeah, I
agree with that.
- 100%.
- Take a picture of this one.
(laughing)
- [Tom] Yeah.
That's really cool.
- [Chris] Couple of
World Series of Poker
bracelet winners
going after it here.
- [Robert] Oh, I
got some good ones.
- [Tom] I know you do.
I want to hear more.
- [Dealer] 325.
- [Chris] Turns another king.
- [Chris] Check from Schneider.
Schneider more of a mixed
game specialist as he says,
but I think he does pretty
well at no limit Hold 'Em.
And of course, Greg Merson,
the World Series of Poker
Main Event Champion.
And they're both gonna
be playing the board.
We know that, but
they don't know that.
A check again from Schneider.
- [Dealer] 2,000.
- I knew that was coming.
(laughing)
That's so sick.
So sick!
Greg, Greg, Greg, you know
I got a monster here.
- [Russell] I had
the same hand as you.
- [Tom] Did you have that?
Same hand?
- [Russell] The board?
- Well, yeah.
I didn't have the board
prior to the river.
- [Chris] Let's
do a quick tally
before we leave for the night.
The biggest winner of the
night is Tom Schneider.
Donkey Bomber up
over 17,000 dollars,
but Maryland Live regular
Dumpster Joe Butts
up 15,000 dollars,
look at that.
Only two guys on the
plus side tonight.
These two have been creating
a vacuum at the table.
When we come back,
it's a Poker Night
field trip to the
nation's capital.
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- [Chris] While we're
here in Baltimore,
Poker Night in America
had a rental car.
We put Phil Hellmuth in
it and sent him to DC.
Here's a sneak peek.
(bouncy jazz music)
- We also understand
there is a lot of
poker played here
in Washington.
Even on Capitol Hill.
- There has, there
may have been
poker played in this very room.
(laughing)
- Well, I mean, within a
mile of this Capitol on
any given night of the week,
there's probably dozens
of poker games going on.
- You know, members of
the staff on the hill,
Capitol Hill, and many
elected officials play poker.
- Members of congress,
other lobbyists from
other industries,
and even the guys who're
sweeping the floors here.
- [Jon] It's a tough job,
representing the
American people,
and they're looking
for some release.
An opportunity to
have a good time.
- To me, the theme of
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Now, I'm about to walk into
a game inside the Beltway.
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- [Phil H.] What's up, RW3?
- [Robert] Hard to make
it out to play last night.
- Has he been, he's broke out
the damn Tabasco sauce already?
- [Voice off Camera]
He said put it on our
tongues every time we...
- I go to this guy,
I go with this guy
to the Kentucky
Derby every year.
We go to five star restaurants,
and he pulls this out.
And I'm like, "what
are you doing?"
He's like, "now Phil,
I'm from The South.
"I want a beer with Tabasco."
Alright, whatever Robert.
(clanging)
Whatever.
And then he orders,
then he orders
a 10,000 dollar bottle of wine.
(laughing)
(crashing)
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