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- [Announcer] From
Seminole Hard Rock
in Hollywood, Florida, this
is Poker Night in America.
(upbeat music)
- Welcome to Poker
Night in America,
I'm Chris Hansen
and I'm alongside
slickjoe08@yahoo.com.
- Did you just give
my email address
to our millions and millions
and millions of viewers?
- Yeah, I know, it's ridiculous.
You're still on Yahoo.
(laughs)
- I'm already starting
to get emails.
Oh, no, wait, this
is from my mom.
This is a hilarious forward.
See if you send it
to seven people,
Bill Gates sends you
a thousand dollars.
- Send that to me,
I'll take that.
- Okay, I'll forward it to you.
You're on Hotmail,
though, right?
- Yeah, Hotmail.
- (laughs) Hotmail?
What a loser.
- [Chris] We continue
day number one
at Seminole Hard Rock
and so far, Jennifer
Tilly, well,
she's got a lot of work to do,
I think that's safe to say.
Most of the money
that she is down
has went to the player
sitting right next to her.
- My nickname then was the Mop.
- Really?
'Cause you mop the floor
with the competition?
- No, 'cause I had
like really long hair.
Not really long,
but just you know,
like this, but a little longer.
- [Joe] Poker Night in
America brought to you by
Kimo Sabe Mezcal.
- You're gonna need
a fine picture of us.
I played basketball long enough
that when I was in junior
varsity basketball,
it was still the days
of the short-shorts.
(woman laughs)
- [Man] Really, the huggers.
They were still, that's how
long ago I was in school.
- Tube socks, too?
Did you have the tube socks?
- [Man] No, tube
socks had gone away,
but the huggers
were still in place.
- This is early 90s.
Early nineties is like
right when Fab Five came out
and like everyone
started going baggy,
but they obviously
hadn't picked up that
in my high school yet.
- [Joe] Jason Mercier
with more sets
than the Franklin mint.
- [Chris] I can't believe
his luck against her.
Like, I'd buy her
into tournaments
to come sit at the
same table as I am
to keep getting this kinda luck.
- [Joe] So, Jenn's bet 400,
Mercier kicks it up to 1400.
- [Chris] Just fold, Jenn.
Just fold it this time.
Run, run, run.
- [Joe] Oh boy.
This is going to be a shame.
- [Chris] There's the jam.
- Jason.
- [Chris] Jenn.
Jenn, you cannot do
anything but fold, please.
We love you.
Just stay down.
- What would you do, Stewart?
- I don't know your
holding, but even if I did,
I don't think I'm
supposed to reveal that.
- Good answer.
I like the way you
answered that question.
- [Chris] Jenn, here's
what I would do.
Call ... a cab.
- I'll tell you, though.
What I'll be rooting
for to happen
is for you to call and win.
But I don't trying to
influence your action.
But of course, that's...
- [Joe] Tilly trying to
do what she loves to do
which is act.
Unfortunately, Jason's the
one holding the actual script.
- My dream.
- Show one, Jay.
It's good for the game.
- My dream one day is to
win a pot off of Jason.
- Top shelf liquor gonna
be on hand August 11.
- But it's free, you
know, who's paying?
- I'm gonna play carefully
and with heart.
- [Chris] Tilly still
raising under the gun
with some questionable hands.
- [Woman] That's nice.
- [Man] That's very nice of him.
- [Woman] That's a
really nice invite.
- I mean, we're close friends.
- [Joe] Wendeen
Eolis folds her pair.
She doesn't want any part of
this Tilly trainwreck, I guess.
Esther Taylor
calls the $300 bet.
- [Man] The bar was
only gonna be open
for like a couple of hours.
- Donation.
- [Chris] And so
does Mercier, oh boy.
- [Joe] Jason claims
he's making a donation.
Something tells me the guy
starting with the best hand
is probably not gonna
give this up too easily.
Jenn Tilly has four high,
a shocker, flush
draw for Taylor,
Mercier checks the best hand,
which is an over
pair to this board.
- [Chris] 600 the bet from
Tilly, again with four high.
- [Joe] Call in one spot,
and it's very likely
to be called in two spots.
- [Chris] And that's correct.
- [Joe] I'm sure that's
just what she wanted,
gettin' called in two spots
when she's got four high.
- [Chris] Another
deuce on the turn.
- [Joe] I think this is a
definite check-call spot
for both players, both
Mercier and Taylor.
Interesting.
Jason's gonna bet, which is
gonna lead me to believe
that this is actually
the right move.
Oooohhh.
A raise.
- [Chris] And a call so this
pot now is over $10,000.
Nothing for Esther Taylor.
- [Joe] She bricks out.
Jason's still got an over pair.
- [Chris] None of the
flop draws came in.
It's gonna be pretty tough
to get Jason to
fold in this spot.
- All in.
- [Chris] Oh boy.
- [Joe] I said it was gonna
be tough to get Jason to fold.
This is her absolute
best effort.
- [Chris] Oh my lord.
- [Joe] Ah, he's so good.
He's so good.
How does he do it?
Alright guys, we have to
leave you by yourselves
here at the Hard Rock.
Don't worry, we left
$20 on the counter
for you to order a pizza.
We'll be right back.
- So I'm here with Brad Garrett.
I was a big fan of
Everyone Loves Raymond.
I really was.
I thought you were
fantastic in that.
- I'm very grateful
for that show.
- And both you and
Ray are poker players.
- Yes, we do.
You know, we're
donkeys to be honest
and you know, Ray's very rich,
but if he loses two bucks it's
"Aww, I should've known.
Aww, I can't,
aww, my wallet it so heavy."
You know, this is the first time
I've been in your room where
I haven't felt compromised.
(laughs)
Seriously.
This is unbelievable.
Remember you were like, "Just
put on the pirate outfit.
Just see how it fits."
I'm in group therapy alone.
That's how messed up I am.
But this is what I
learned a long time ago,
you know, as my people say,
hit 'em hard and then re-tail.
- Who's your best friend?
- My imaginary
friend named Skipper.
- Okay Brad.
- This has been great.
Come by any time.
Really, I love your...
This is the suite they give you,
I was complaining.
The greatest poker
player in the world,
what are you staying with
a couple from Denver?
They can't give you a suite?
Let me take care of it.
- Like what do you mean by that
because sometimes I've been
feeling quite alienated.
(Everybody laughs)
- [Chris] South
Florida the place we be
at Seminole Hard Rock
in Hollywood Florida.
Wanna get this done with,
I wanna get some pool time.
(Joe laughs)
Not gonna lie.
I'm actually wearing a
swimsuit under these pants.
- [Joe] Pool's closed, man.
- [Chris] What?
- [Joe] Gators.
- [Chris] Stop.
- I'm so frightened.
Every time I'm in
a hand with Jason,
I know he's gonna somehow
either out-flop me,
out-play me, or
- Or fold.
- He's never folded.
I don't think he's ever folded.
- No one else is drinking
at the pace that I am.
What's wrong with me?
- [Chris] Poker Night in America
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A raise to 1700
from Esther Taylor.
- [Joe] Wow, trying to
isolate Jennifer Tilty
with the suited connectors.
- [Stewart] These are
small beverages, though.
- Jason, I want you in there.
- Well, then you should
have made it like 600.
- [Esther] Power call.
- Nice open.
- [Joe] Flop is
deuce, six, king.
- [Chris] Yay, Jennifer
Tilly finally hits a set.
- [Joe] Yay, she's gonna
win like five grand, max.
- [Stewart] I don't
wanna call it what it is.
I mean, winning is great, but...
- [Joe] Not much of a cold
deck, but Taylor is betting.
- [Wendeen] One
more for the road.
- [Esther] No, I'm
doing really very well.
- [Stewart] Anybody
else want a beverage?
- [Chris] 50 was
the bet from Taylor.
Tilly calls.
So we're at 5500.
- I guess I'm the only
one, but that's fine.
- [Joe] Unless it's a
ten, nine, or a spade,
we're not gonna see much money.
Oh, maybe.
Maybe we will see more
money from Taylor.
- [Chris] Yikes.
Lot of folks will slow down
once they catch
something on the turn.
Not E-Tay.
Jenn's reputation
proceeding her.
Esther thinks she can get paid
betting this pair of tens.
- [Joe] 1400 was the bet and
a call as we go to the river.
It's a queen.
Action's gonna be on
Esther Taylor; she checks.
A carefully placed $3,000 bet.
Let's see what Taylor
does here on the river.
She is going to let the hand go.
All right, Jennifer Tilly
there's 11,000 to the good.
- Good fold, you will see.
- I'm playing pretty quick.
- You're playing quick?
- Payin' well, I'm really
impressed by the whole thing.
- I could play faster.
- I do play slow.
I don't try to, I just
do, I don't really...
- [Jennifer] I'm gonna
play really fast now.
- I try to speed it up.
- [Chris] Reilly under the gun.
- Yeah, I did.
- [Joe] Raises with queen, ten.
Cate Hall's got ace,
queen right next to him.
- [Chris] She's been playing
pretty snug today, too.
She just flats.
- [Joe] Not snug, Jenn Tilly.
Playing darn near anything.
Pocket sixes this time around.
- Aww, I was gonna
call one for you.
- [Chris] She hops on
the poker carousal.
As we spin back over to
Reilly, it's 550 to call.
- [Joe] I think
everybody's gonna want
a little piece of
the Tilly action.
- [Chris] There's no
folding here anywhere.
- [Joe] One call,
and now to Hall.
- [Chris] Hey Hall, where's
Oats? Huh? Where's Oats?
True story, I actually
saw Hall and Oats
here at Seminole Hard Rock
a couple of years ago.
- [Joe] Like you saw them
perform or you saw them?
- [Chris] Yeah, no,
they were working.
They were...
- [Joe] They were serving
drinks at the pool?
- [Chris] Yeah, I didn't
know how to bring that up,
but no, performing here,
it was a great concert.
- [Joe] Another
set for Jenn Tilly.
And she might get some
money out of Cate Hall here.
- [Chris] It's pretty
unfortunate for Cate
who's been playing pretty
dang tight all day long
and now she's in a position
where there's really no
way to get away from this.
- [Joe] Call the 1300.
So we'll now go to the turn.
It's a three.
- [Man] Check.
- [Chris] Bet, call.
- [Joe] Is that
what's coming next?
- [Chris] Check, bet, call.
2,000, the bet from Tilly.
- [Joe] To answer your
question, yes Chris,
I believe that is
what's happening next.
- [Chris] Call from Hall.
- [Joe] And I think any
reasonable bet on the river
is gonna put Cate all in.
- [Chris] Jenn Tilly
river's a full house.
Had the best hand to begin with.
Very little out there
for her to be afraid of.
She's losing to eights
and threes and aces
and that is it.
- How much did you
bet on the flop?
(laughs)
- Sorry, I didn't mean to laugh.
(laughs)
(keeps laughing)
I was in a hand once,
and I think somebody was
in a hand, somebody smart,
and I dropped something,
and I didn't go to pick it up,
and he started laughing at me.
'Cause he said it's not a tell
if you pick up a chip that
you dropped on the floor,
so that's how I was laughing.
Not because I have a
better hand than you.
(all laughing)
- [Man] Which I totally do.
- I don't think she got it.
I was the one that
picked it up, so.
- Oh dear, I gotta
work on my poker face.
(laughs)
You can go ahead and
fold Cate, I gotcha.
Or maybe I don't.
- [Chris] Uh, goodbye.
- Can we see it, at least.
- No, you cannot.
It just cracked me
up 'cause she's all,
"How much did you bet on
the flop, young lady?"
like you were a lawyer
interrogating me.
Then I was doing
this and I went like
and it went on the
ground and I was like,
"Oh, just ignore it."
And then helpful
Stu there was like,
"She's gonna need
that $25 for the cab."
And he goes to get it.
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You know who's having
a great time tonight?
Jason Mercier.
Look at his chip stack compared
to Cate Hall's to his right.
It's like they're not even
playing the same game.
- [Joe] It's weird how chips
can indicate fun level,
but if there's an actual
mathematical formula to it.
- It's funny how
people ask questions
like they think the
person's gonna answer them.
- [Wendeen] Some do.
- It can't hurt.
- Well, I did.
That jiggled a
response out of me.
- [Wendeen] Yeah, it's
just you got too many
different responses out of you.
She had to go back to square
one and think about it.
- I should've just
gone under the table.
I shouldn't've said,
"Fold your cards."
I just was like, mmm,
I should've just, you know.
- [Joe] Flop is
jack, deuce, deuce,
so Taylor stays where
she was at, in the lead.
- [Chris] Hall gonna take
a stab at this in position
and I think once she
gets called here,
that should pretty much
be the end of things.
I know it's a cash game,
and things go a
little differently,
but this is such a dry board.
There's not a lot of
hands that Taylor's
calling the flop with that
she's gonna fold on the turn.
- [Joe] Turn is a nine.
- [Chris] Especially
if the turns not really
something scary
you can represent
like a niner.
Cate maybe setting up
a river shove, however.
- [Joe] 875, the
bet from Cate Hall.
- [Chris] She's drawing
dead, by the way.
The Walking Dead sitting
next to the Drawing Dead.
- [Joe] Can I get
it in one more time?
- [Chris] Go for it.
- [Joe] Carl!
(both laugh)
Jack on the river,
two pair for Taylor,
does put some
straights out there.
Taylor checks.
- [Chris] Cate Hall
wondering if one more bet
is going to get rid
of Esther Taylor.
She's gonna give it a try.
- You're good.
- [Chris] If you are Cate
Hall there, I mean...
- [Joe] You're not
winning a showdown,
so if you want to try
to get that money back,
you just have to give it a rip.
- Is this the last hand?
- It is.
- Awww.
Let's all just go crazy.
- [Esther] I'm so bummed.
- [Chris] Yes, I
was hoping for this.
- Seven way all in, anybody?
- [Jennifer] Sure.
A lot of times crazy things
happen in the last hand.
- So far it's nuts.
(all laughing)
- [Esther] Going crazy.
- That's just a call, right?
That's just a call?
- Looks like it.
I'm gonna raise.
We'll make it four.
- [Stewart] Dust.
- [Joe] Oh, Jennifer.
- [Chris] Oh, not again.
- [Joe] We were doing so well.
She knows you can't flop a
set with queen, four, right?
(Chris laughs)
- All right, Jenn.
- This is one of
those spots, donation.
- Yeah, we've heard that before.
- [Joe] This time it is
much more donation-like,
nine, five of diamonds,
or you can just flop a
flush, draw, and a pair.
- [Chris] Top set
for Wendeen Eolis,
but Jennifer Tilly
doing what Tilly does,
betting 800.
Eolis now in the position
of calling or raising,
and she goes with
the raise to all in.
- [Joe] I respect the move.
I don't think Jason
can fold, though.
- [Chris] There's
the call from Jason.
- Is the person that bet at it
the only person without a hand?
- [Chris] Jennifer.
- [Joe] Fold, fold.
- All right, on their backs.
- [Chris] They don't have
to, it's a cash game.
I liked turning 'em
up, but whatever.
- [Both Announcers] There it is.
- [Joe] A flush.
- [Chris] So we're gonna
need the board to pair
or Jason's gonna
claim another victim.
Nope, he just makes
a flush twice.
- [Joe] Oh my goodness.
Every possible thing is
going his way tonight.
- It's Jason's world.
We just live in it.
- [Chris] Oh, boy.
- [Wendeen] That's
not even right.
Everbody else loses.
- [Joe] So this is interesting.
Usually we have
to have two pages,
one for the winners,
and one for the losers.
Turns out, just one
winner in this game,
Jason Mercier.
- I've done the conveyor belt as
an adult it's just like, eh.
By comparison it was more tame
then what I was doing as a
child.
- Oh yeah, we would go down the
road.
Which was really safe.
- Majority of the things people
do to think that they are
catering to the spot,
ultimately alienate the spot.
- What do you mean by that,
because sometimes I have been
feeling quite alienated.
(laughter)
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- Welcome back.
- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America.
He's Chris Hansen,
and I'm Joe Stapleton.
- Joe, you took my part.
- I thought it was
getting a little stale.
Isn't it kinda fun
to mix it up a bit?
- No, Joe, you can't
just take a thing
and make it your own.
That was my thing.
It was literally all I
have left on the show.
- Don't you have
like three kids?
Oh, on the show, sorry.
I'm sorry, buddy, it's
yours, now and forever.
Do you wanna take the next part?
- No, you already started.
You might as well
go ahead and finish.
- Okay.
We're Face Up with
Esther Taylor.
(upbeat music)
- Obviously I, you know,
try and spend a lot of
time with my family,
but this is like
my full-time job.
I'm not dying to have
this be my full-time job
for the rest of
my life, you know?
If I'm being honest,
I really think
that poker will always be there,
maybe not full time, but
it'll always be around
probably until
I'm like a grandma
or something, I don't know.
And then I could probably
get away with a lot more.
You're not as hot (beep)
as you think you are.
The lines that you
take with hands
needs to be more believable.
And also I think 2006 E-Tay
sometimes needs to
talk to 2016 E-Tay,
like "E-Tay, you
don't have to win
every single pot you play.
Patience, E-Tay."
So there's both, you know,
but I do know so much more now
which I've really
just kind of learned
in the past two years
than I ever did back then
in 2006 through
2009, 10, whatever.
I look at people,
and I'm like, "That was me."
Like I wanna kinda just
take 'em under my wing
and be like, "Just calm,
you know, calm down."
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pokernight.com for more
from Poker Night in America.
- No, no, no, do it the
good, you can do it good.
Come on, do it the good way.
- Really, you think I
can, you're gonna let me?
- Yeah, there we go.
- All right, here
we go, let's try it.
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