- [Announcer] From Choctaw
Resort in Durant, Oklahoma,
this is Poker Night in America.
(upbeat jazzy trumpet)
- Hello, and welcome to Poker
Night in America, I'm Chris
Hanson, alongside Joe Stapleton.
- And we're in Durant, Oklahoma
at Choctaw, Choctaw, Choctaw
Resort bringing you live
cash game action.
- The reality stars are wealthy?
- [Chris] We've got a new
lineup for you tonight
including prop and
trinket master,
Jim Carroll and Poker
Night staple, Alec Torelli.
- [Joe] I cannot even believe
that poker prop comedy
is a thing.
- [Chris] It is, and he is
the leader in the clubhouse.
- [Joe] He is the only person
in the clubhouse, which
is probably shaped
like a billy club.
- Should we do the bluff out
Torelli game again today?
- No, guys, not doing it.
(laughter)
- Is it that it
didn't go so well?
- It's not up to you.
- It's not that, it's not about
the fact that I don't think
I have... it's beneficial
for me from a financial
standpoint, I just don't like
the game from a TV standpoint.
- It was great for
the TV standpoint.
- The TV doesn't
know about the game.
- Well, that's Tarkman's
fault, he should've told them.
- From a TV standpoint you
think it's a bit of a conflict
of interest that Chris Hanson's
son Bart Hanson is once
again playing in this game?
- He's not my son.
- That sounds reasonable.
- 400 is reasonable
for this game.
- Alright, so Jim Carroll,
Matt Russell, and not my son,
Bart Hanson are in this hand.
- Flops eight deuce seven.
- Hanson pairs his live
card but it is no good.
- Look like you were
thinking about it.
- Oh, I don't know.
- 400, the bet from Jim Carroll.
- 20% of those in,
20% of those...
- That gets rid of Russell.
- Jim, I'm perfectly sure to
be happy to have a hand in
here, got two tens, there's
no paint out there, I'll just
take it right now, thanks.
- I don't think Irons took 20%
- No.
- You know what, I probably
won't be again today.
- That's fair, it doesn't
mean that you can't win
playing less or more, it's
just everybody has different
styles, also different spots,
I also had a bet where I had
to be in every hand because
people could bluff me so I had
to play the most amount
of hands, thank you.
- One more low card means
one more bet from Jim.
- Morning Mr. Tuckman.
- That's a $1,200 bet.
- Bart's getting buried early,
we're in the second hand
and he's...
- Jim's move here isn't so
bad, I don't mind the check but
he makes it so quickly that
I think it's kind of a major
tell, like he doesn't even
consider betting so Bart doesn't
really have to worry
about getting raised.
- 1800.
- So I'll probably put
you on a pair of nines
or sixes, lets find out.
- I have two pair.
- That's not good.
- Is it gonna be like this
all day long with the river.
- All day, it's been
torture, two hands in.
- Alright Gavin, here we go,
lets count these babies up.
- Oh, you're warning me
this time, you want action.
- I love playing
my button this way.
- Well, actually I didn't
think it tasted that bad, for a
low alcohol IPA, you know
all the beer here's three
percent.
- I did not.
- Three percent?
That's only one more
percent than my milk.
- What's beer normally?
- Four and a half is average.
- It can be five to--
- But like, IPAs are--
- Nine, something like that.
- What's wine, nine?
- Wine's like 11 to
14, is pretty average.
- What is it, 175?
Alright, I can do that.
- Here comes Jim Carroll again.
Torelli and his rings are out.
- Three percent beer,
you're not gonna--
- Abdyl Konjuhi from
Anchorage wakes up with
Alaska Airlines, bet you
never heard of that one before
did you?
- I think it's American
Airlines is what they call it.
- This guy's from, he's from
Anchorage though, buddy.
Action back on Bart.
- Ooh, I don't like
the taste of beer.
- I know, that's what I'm
saying, if you drink it here
it's because you like the taste.
- Did you look, man?
- Yeah, because
you raised so much.
Normally when I don't
look, I win a hand,
so I'm gonna say I'm
gonna win this hand.
- So we're three
ways to this flop,
Konjuhi way out in front.
- Give me two pair on
the flop, right here.
- And what a dope flop for Aces.
Everyone's likely to think
they have the best hand.
And Konjuhi bets this flop
a pretty absurd amount,
nearly pot sized.
- So far the absurd bet
size is working out.
(poker chips shuffling)
- I need to pull out.
My donkey award,
or sucker reward,
are you suckering
me in on this one?
- In a vacuum, I do
not like this bet.
On the flop, Jim was well
aware of all the hands
he was losing to.
- I'm not a good enough player
to know what to do here.
- We should implement the
phone-a-friend system.
One hand, so you'd just
get calls all day long.
(laughing)
You could go over and look
at it and decide for him.
- Well, if I got that
unfortunate for you to have Aces
over there, I got
that unfortunate.
I call.
- Okay, boys, what do you got?
- Turn 'em up.
Wow.
- Yeah, I think I need a
Queen or a King, please.
- King won't do it for
you, you need the Queen.
- Queen, baby.
- Why did you have
to say that, Gavin?
You mouth-sucking dog?
- I was helping you.
- You shouldn't
have said anything,
and then he celebrates
on the river.
- Two hands in and Jim
Carroll has gone bust.
Gonna need a minute to reload.
- Luckily he runs that
marriage bootcamp,
so he knows how
to reload quickly.
- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America
here at Choctaw Resort
in Durant, Oklahoma.
Ya-hoo, Jim Carroll's
bought back into the game.
- You realize I
have the power today
to remove any one of
you from the table?
- Can you take all
my chips again?
- If you take all of his chips.
- That's a good way
to remove people.
Or keep 'em in the game.
- We gotta take your chips
four or five more times
before you're all done.
- I don't know, the ATM
won't let me have that much.
- You probably got pretty
good credit around here.
- Abdyl's got lots of
money, he'll loan ya.
- You've got about 12,000 more
than you had a few minutes ago.
- Alright, these two again,
going heads up to the flop.
Hey, have you ever
heard someone say that
two players are
"putting on a clinic?"
We're about to see whatever
the opposite of a clinic is.
Flop is King high.
So, Carroll doesn't continue.
Konjuhi bets his flush draw.
(chatter and chips)
- Three and a quarter, I'm
gonna raise it up a tad.
- Okay, so now Jim
has checked raising,
You made me look at
my hand now
- If you look three times
it means you're gonna
throw 'em away, I've pretty
much figured that one out.
- Eleven more?
- Konjuhi calls.
- What are you doing, Abdyl?
I shouldn't be messing with you.
- Alright, there's the
Ace for Jim Carroll.
- And checks it.
- $2,500.
- Now you're wondering,
well, how good is my Ace?
Konjuhi betting again.
- So I re-raise, you call.
- You know how there's
that one hearth stone card
that makes you just start
casting random spells
and attacking the
wrong people and stuff?
- Nope.
- Well, this is like
that, but for poker.
- Alright, now $8,300,
here comes the river.
Everybody misses.
Carroll did not need to hit.
- Check.
- And he's gonna check
the best hand again.
$8,300 in the middle.
- 3,250.
- I just cannot believe
I got such bad luck
that you hit that Ace.
- It's a 3,200 bluff,
into a guy who folds
less often than a saltine.
- Good grief, I'm
having a bad day.
Probably got two pair, King six.
Here, take some more money.
- There's the call.
(laughing)
- Nice hand.
- Gavin, I am
defending my blind.
- I'll do it with
you, I haven't looked.
I'm just waiting for
the cards to come.
- So that's not a
straddle, right?
That's a raise.
- No, it's a straddle.
I was just waiting for him so
my chips weren't blocking the,
weren't blocking the thing.
(chatter)
- He may walk, it may walk.
- That would be beautiful.
- Not walking by me, no way.
- 300? That sounds fair.
Oh, that's bad, isn't it?
- So we know Carroll's
got at least an Ace.
Hanson with Ace ten.
Torelli Queen Jack.
Alec had a fun calling hand,
but he's out of position
so he wants the betting lead.
Re-raising.
This could go
either way for Bart.
Alec is pretty aggressive,
and with the dynamic
of the positions, Ace ten
could be the best hand.
- Alright, with that kind
of raise, I'm gonna have
to take a little lookie here.
- That's fair.
(laughing) We wouldn't
expect otherwise.
- And it's how much?
- Looks like Jim's got his
cards back on the reader.
Ace Jack, domination nation.
- You know he's calling this.
- 1150?
- What did you want it to be?
- Well...I'm gonna call that.
- 1150's reasonable.
- I think that was like that.
Straddle, run you
away kinda thing.
Right, that's what
you were doing?
- I can't say yet. (laughing)
Still in the middle of it.
- That's pretty nice, if
you got fives over there,
go for it.
- On a board like this,
Alec as the three-better
is supposed to keep betting.
- Thirteen?
- [Dealer] Thirteen.
- And he does.
1,300.
- Uh-oh, here comes another
classic Jim Carroll check raise.
- I am gonna raise.
- And it works!
And I know getting Alec to
fold is gonna feel like a win,
but let's remember,
a worse hand folded.
- You're thinking too
fast, I couldn't figure out
any trophy, award, or
anything to give you.
- Welcome back to Choctaw
Resort and shout out
to Julie B on Yelp.
She left a five-star
review, stating
"very hospital-y, very
clean, Sam was great."
Thanks, Julie!
- Not many people notice
the hospitaliness of it.
- You know the third-party
candidate, Gary Johnson?
- (laughing) Johnson.
- People don't realize that
the libertarian platform
is that they want open
immigration and emigration.
Like, they want open, because
they want no laws at all.
- Right, I did not know that.
- I am a micro-stakes
political player.
- A what?
- I'm a micro-stakes politician.
- What does that mean?
- It means I don't
play very big,
I don't know what's going on.
The difference between me and
all the other micro-stakes
players is I know I'm
a micro-stakes player.
A lot of people think
they're playing mid-stakes
and they're really
playing micro-stakes.
- I'll tell you what though,
Alex Reilly is high stakes
when it comes to
poker metaphors.
- Politics, I'm
very micro-stakes.
I was asking how they
felt about the wall
in south Texas.
- So Jim Carroll
opens with seven six
and flops a big draw.
- Alec's seven,
still the best hand.
Only one over card out there.
- I lost a prop that
I might need to use
in this hand at some point.
- Chris's son is out,
Christian Gray is out.
- And all we're left with is
Jim Carroll and Alec Torelli,
stop us if you've
heard this one.
And Jim Carroll just makes
a straight on the turn.
- Pick.
- Alec picked his move for him.
Door number one said check.
- Check.
- Alright, so we go
check check on the turn.
Here's the river.
- Pick one.
- It worked last time.
- No, you sure
you want that one?
- It worked last
time. (laughing)
- No.
- Oh, 3K in that one.
- Yikes.
- Now the way he did the
little check in the turn
was kinda cute, but
from a poker standpoint,
maybe not what we like to
call game theory optimal.
By not betting--
what is happening?
(laughing)
- What is this?
I don't think you can do that.
- This guy's seen
Patton too many times.
- Oh, I love it, backscratcher!
- It's not across the line
anymore and I did not touch it.
- What's going on?
- Alec is handling
this really well,
which, I believe if Jim
were like a really, really
good player, he'd
probably have a lot less
tolerance for this.
- I got you beat this time,
do not put your chips in.
- What I was saying is, when
Jim doesn't bet the turn
he sort of caps his pot.
Like if Jim had bet the turn
and bet 3K on the river,
this becomes a far less
absurd bet for Alec to call.
- Problem is it got so big.
- Well you picked
the other damn hand.
What's wrong with
you betting real big?
You know, you just
got like a little
rinky-dink hand, you
can't beat anything.
- I will say this.
Like the novels of Dan
Brown, if your IQ is above 80
Jim Carroll is
impossible to read.
He's kind of like the
Jigsaw of poker players
in that he's baffling and
cruel and also, somehow,
he keeps coming back.
- Come on, I'm fishing for you.
Looking for a fish.
- Break's in an hour,
should we just go now?
- Yeah.
What would you do
if it was your turn?
- I know, right?
- Like, I remember when I
first started playing poker,
it took me a while to
make decisions too.
It's only 100.
That's all I got.
- That's all I got, what
a disgusting slow roll!
- Back scratcher.
- Good for you, I
mean, well done.
(laughing)
(talking over each other)
- Well that's not as good, I
thought I scooped the game.
Darn it.
You don't have to be
happy for me anymore,
because I'm not
happy for me anymore.
- Barkley, what are you doing?
I thought we were
rooting and happy.
- Gavin's Canadian so
even when he's angry
he sounds pretty happy.
- I think we're all in there.
- Pick one.
- Left.
- Hundred dollars.
- Things are not looking
good for Jim Carroll.
- You are being
careful with trying
not to let me see it
every time, though.
- I don't want to
give away everything.
- Call.
- 350.
- I guess I could've
done a $150 raise.
- Going heads up for the turn,
Jim Carroll officially
drawing debt.
- Oh, nice boat on
the turn for Hanson.
Atta boy.
This is a super run out for
Bart, not only is he improving
but the board's running
out in such a way
that Jim's more and
more likely to think
his hand could be good.
- Made you look, made you look.
- 900.
- 900 is the bet,
call from Carroll.
- Check.
(background conversation)
- Time for Bart to take
it on down to Value Vill.
- Notice how he doesn't
get into the props.
At this point, with
Bart Hanson, like he did
in the last one,
with a big decision.
- The question is
do you have an Ace?
If you have an Ace,
and I got two Aces,
that makes...but I
don't have two Aces.
I call.
- You're gonna
need a bigger boat.
Where's the props
now, maybe like
a little tow truck for
Bart to drag the pot?
(vibrant jazzy music)
- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America.
More specifically,
Durant, Oklahoma.
Even more specifically
than that,
Choctaw Resort.
We're halfway
through the session
and our big winner
is Bart Hanson.
Alec Torelli and Abdyl Konjuhi
are up over four grand.
- Jim Carroll lost ten grand
early, and is still in the hole
for most of that.
Matt Russell and Tom Gray
are gonna be looking to
earn back some losses
as well, next time
here on Poker Night.
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- It's only appropriate
I give you back the fish.
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