- [Voiceover] From SugarHouse
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
this is Poker Night in America.
(upbeat instrumental music)
- Welcome to Poker Night in
America.
I'm your host, Chris Hanson.
Philadelphia is the site of
a lot of American history.
From the signing of the
Declaration of Independence,
to Rocky Balboa agreeing
to the Louisiana Purchase.
Our national heritage is
entwined with the very fabric
of this city, and that
makes it the perfect place
to play America's true
pastime, Texas hold 'em.
The fine people at SugarHouse
are graciously hosting
us tonight, so let's
head to the Poker Room
and see if our players are
making any history of their own.
(indistinct chattering)
On to our third day of
play here at SugarHouse.
Buy-ins range from $5,000 to
$20,000.
And of course, the blinds
will be $25 and $50
in our no-limit cash game.
- It just takes like, three
minutes
for it to go check-check.
And then the river, when it's
like, the guy's betting like,
value-betting two pairs.
Just thinks for 30 seconds, 45
seconds.
- [Shak] And checks.
- That's what I mean.
- [Shak] It's literally 5
minutes for two tank checks.
- [Hellmuth] But what I'm
saying is--
- [Torelli] First bout, someone
has a set,
and they're thinking about
value-betting,
and it's like, they have no
choice, right?
They're always gonna bet,
and they think for like,
two minutes, you know?
- [Shak] Or if people don't
start thinking
until the other person stops
thinking.
Why can't you think while the
other person's thinking?
(woman laughing)
What you'll do if they do X.
- [Torelli] Excellent point.
Should be simultaneous thinking
happening.
- That's what I'm saying.
There's no rule that says
you can't start thinking
until the other person--
(woman laughing)
- [Deeb] It's the same thing,
like,
in mixed games, when people
squeeze.
They wait 'til it's their
turn to start squeezing.
And like, some draw games, it
takes forever because of that.
- [Torelli] It goes, like,
raise, and then the guy's
all-in,
and this guy's thinking for five
minutes.
Then he folds, the
other guy's like, "Okay,
"how much is it?"
And then it's like, it just
starts his thinking process.
Like, what were you doing the
whole time?
What were you doing when
the guy was thinking?
- Sometimes I insta-call people,
and they can't believe it,
'cause I insta-call light, and I
said,
"Well, I had already decided
what I was gonna do."
- No one's ever surprised when
you insta-call light, Dan.
- [Hanson] The bet was
$500 from Torelli.
I got a call from Dan Shak.
- Dum, dum, dum, dum.
- [Hanson] Hellmuth also
calls,
and Hellmuth hits a gutter on
the turn.
So Shak is drawing dead.
- I mean, slow-playing's an
epidemic in the high rollers,
I think, but I don't see
this much on a regular basis.
Like, at World Series
tournaments,
I don't see it all the time.
- I see it more with
younger kids, I think.
- It's funny that the people
that come from online do it.
- [Jett] Right.
- It's like, I think when
they get to live poker,
they're like, "Wait a minute.
"There's a person, and he's
like, physically there."
And then, they get so confused.
- Actually now, in like, the big
buy-in
and tournaments completely,
there's not enough time bank.
'Cause now they've done
it so much live, online,
they feel like they
can't do the same stuff.
They'd run out of time, and
time-out their hand so often--
- [Jett] Did you see that
during the World Series?
The young kids, like,
they're fidgeting around
because they can't wait for
the next hand to come out.
- I've stopped playing
online for a long time.
- [Hellmuth] $3,000, raise it.
- [Dealer] $3,000.
- That was just the worst card
for me.
- Take 15 each.
- I wanna fold.
- Alright.
- I wanna, I wanna fold.
- [Deeb] He's got a set of
queens.
- Yeah, I know. I wanna fold.
- [Hellmuth] I have the nut
straight.
- Yeah, I know. I wanted
to fold, but, whatever.
- [Shak] Four outs or no outs.
- He has outs, Phil.
- [Hanson] So Torelli's gonna
be
looking for the board to pair.
- [Hellmuth] Oh, he has outs.
I thought he was mucking.
- [Hanson] He misses the
river, and just like that,
Phil Hellmuth will double-up
on his very first hand of the
night.
- [Hellmuth] Whoo hoo hoo hoo!
Let Phil get lucky. Yum yum!
- [Elias] Imagine if the hands
were flipped.
(laughing)
- Right. We would have seen
steam comin' out of his ears.
(laughing)
- [Nolan] How old is Gram gonna
be?
- She just turned 95.
- [Nolan] Wow. Is she gonna pla?
- No. She hate's flying.
She's very claustrophobic, so.
And she actually didn't
like all the attention.
She just likes to play cards.
She didn't want all the cameras
and stuff.
- [Hanson] Shaun Deeb
talking about the numerous times
when he's bought his grandmother
in
to the World Series of Poker
main event.
We'd love to have Grandma here
on Poker Night in America.
Let's see if we can't make that
happen.
- [Deeb] I think if she
made Day Two on either
of the first two times,
she'd wanna go back,
but it just felt like she
was just wasting my money,
and I was like, the experience
alone.
I sold 1% to a bunch of poker
players,
so everyone had to
sweat on my grandmother.
- [Torelli] That's awesome.
- [Deeb] You had a piece, didn't
ya?
- I'll buy 1% next time, if
you're looking for investors.
- [Hanson] Can you imagine, like
playing in the World Series
of Poker, you find out that
you've got eliminated by this
old woman who turns out to be
Shaun Deeb's grandmother?
Like what kind of training
is she getting before?
And the sad thing is he probably
shouldn't even buy her
into the no-limit hold 'em
event, she's really
more of an open-face specialist.
- Well, I mean, you know who
set it up.
- [Hanson] Alright, back to the
action with the flop between
Jeganathan and Shak.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Hanson] $1,500, the bet
from Shak.
- [Esther] Sometimes you just
get dealt what you're dealt.
I don't know. I asked you if
you wanted 20.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Hanson] See if the third
heart slows Dan Shak down.
- [Deeb] Let's see what
you think his hand--
- [Hanson] It does not.
His bet is $2,500.
And a call, so here's the river.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Hanson] Gotta be tempting
for Shak
to fire another bet here on the
river.
Let's see if he does.
He does.
- [Deeb] Have you ever met
another Alec?
- [Torelli] Yeah, once. Once or
twice.
Like, just, I think it was
someone
that worked at the gym I went
to,
or something, like, just
randomly.
- Was it like a, is it, like, a
nationalistic name,
or is it a, just change of the
spelling?
- [Torelli] My mom really likes
horses--
- [Hanson] Wow! And
Jeganathan calls.
He did not see aces coming.
And wow, what a huge pot for Dan
Shak
of over $18,000.
Dan just totally soaked up
value there from Jeganathan.
After the break, we'll find
out if that puts him on tilt.
Stick around.
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Where the world plays online.
- Thanks for returning to
Poker Night in America.
I'm your host, Chris Hanson.
Let's return to the cash game.
Our table's gonna get
a little bit different
as Karina Jett is gonna give up
seat six,
and taking her spot,
making another appearance
on Poker Night in America,
is Tom Schneider.
Let's see what Tom's got
on at the table today.
That's usually the biggest
question.
And there we go.
It's half-green and
white, and it's shamrock.
- [Hellmuth] Did I say that
right?
- [Deeb] I don't think it's
ever been said before,
so we'll just assume it's right.
- [Hellmuth] Uh, I'm doing
SportsCenter on Friday in Vegas.
I'll probably go to the
Mayweather-Pacquio fight.
I'm gonna try to get Mayweather
to come on SportsCenter
with me, but, you know, he
might be a little bit busy.
- We're trying to have a
record for brags at the table.
(laughing)
- [Elias] Like, per hour?
- Well, now it's going to
the Manny of Pacquio.
- [Hellmuth] Are you making
fun of my ego, Daniel?
- Well, I was just, are you
talking to me?
- [Hellmuth] No, different
Daniel.
- Oh, okay. 'Cause I was,
actually.
- [Schneider] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I was questioning the
brags-per-hour.
- [Hellmuth] I called Maury
today,
and I told him that
you and I should have--
- Instead of ROI, it's
brags-per-hour.
- [Deeb] BPH.
- [Schneider] BPH.
(laughing)
- [Hellmuth] I'd rather
be at the final table
at the Main Event, but in
case I'm stuck announcing
with you, we should do
the opening segment.
Yeah, I know it.
You get paid to make fun of me,
Daniel.
(Hellmuth laughs)
I know it's easy, I know it's
easy.
You do a good job of it.
- $1,400. Excuse me, $900.
- [Hellmuth] Oh, when
you try your hardest,
you're like the most clever.
When you try your hardest,
you're the most clever needler.
Yeah, and obviously pretty good
at that poker thing, too, so.
(Hellmuth laughing)
I'm big time, too. I have
Daniel Negreanu's phone number.
Alright, brother.
D-Negs, let's do this Twitch
thing. Talk to ya soon.
(Hellmuth laughs)
We're cross-streaming.
- [Esther] What kind of phone is
that?
- Cross-streaming with Daniel
could have different meaning--
- [Hellmuth] Which one?
- [Esther] That one.
(laughing)
- [Hellmuth] You making fun of
that phone?
- No.
- [Hellmuth] I'm sick of people
making fun of that phone.
- [Hanson] Phil I'm not going
to say that phone's not
cool but my mom has the
exact same phone.
I'm just saying.
- How much you playing total?
Oh you have plenty.
- [Hellmuth] You gotta
have at least two phones.
- [Torelli] I have 12 behind.
- [Hellmuth] You have 12 phones
behind?
- [Esther] Burner phone?
- [Hellmuth] I have two or
three.
- [Hellmuth] I only have two
phones.
- [Hanson] So here's what's
going on.
Dan Shak bet $900 on the flop.
Elias calls, and then Alec
Torelli was gonna find out
where he was at with his pair of
jacks,
so he bumps up $3,100.
Then he gets a call from Dan
Shak,
and now we're back to
Elias, with two pair.
And he calls.
So I guess every pot tonight
is gonna be a monster.
An ace comes on the turn, and
look at this for Dan Shak.
He's now got a bigger two pair.
- [Torelli] Check.
- [Hanson] We check around,
so now let's see the river.
It's a six.
Dan Shak has the best hand
and he's first to act.
Dan is off to a great start
here tonight at SugarHouse,
and the only way he loses this
hand
is if he folds to somebody's
pressure.
And we're back to Elias.
And Elias will lay it down,
as does Alec Torelli.
- [Schneider] Dan Shak, pot
after pot.
- [Hanson] And the winning
continues
for Dan Shak tonight on
Poker Night in America.
- No one wants to pay for that?
- [Jeganathan] Just the top
one. Just the top one.
- [Shak] What?
- [Jeganathan] Just the top
card.
- [Shak] Pick either one.
- [Esther] The bottom.
- [Hellmuth] It's a deuce.
What was on board? Oh, a king.
There's about three players in
the world
that have held over me
that I wanna play heads up.
- [Deeb] Who are the other two?
- [Hellmuth] Ivey, I'm ready to
play him
heads up, no-limit.
But I don't think he wants to
play.
- [Deeb] He won't play
the stakes you wanna.
- [Hellmuth] Yeah, he doesn't
wanna play low enough.
- [Deeb] He doesn't want to
play high enough?
I think it's the other way
around.
- [Hellmuth] Yeah, that's what I
meant.
Okay, I won't play him high
enough.
- Yeah, okay.
- And who else?
- [Dealer] Raise three.
- [Hellmuth] I would
play Ivey a long time.
- [Torelli] Who's the other one?
- [Hellmuth] And the other one
is, um...
Antonio Esfandiari.
- Three?
- [Hellmuth] But he wants to
play
for the loser getting tased.
(laughing)
- [Deeb] That would be awesome.
Next Poker Night in America,
we need to do that one.
- [Hellmuth] It would be a nice
spectacle.
- [Deeb] That would be awesome.
- [Torelli] That would be
amusing.
(laughing)
For the fans.
- [Hellmuth] But if I play
Antonio,
playing Antonio's bad for me
because he'll actually study his
heads up
and get better and win more
tournaments.
Tom doesn't, I mean, he plays
good heads up anyway, so.
The donkey bomber.
And Ivey'll just be fun.
It'll just be the two of
us in a room somewhere.
We won't tell anybody the
results.
- [Schneider] I'll bet you
would.
(laughing)
- [Deeb] If he wins.
- [Schneider] I'll bet you
would.
- [Schneider] Why would you
play otherwise? It's fun.
- [Torelli] I'd play Ivey
up to a certain limit.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Torelli] It'd be fun.
- [Hellmuth] I'm not saying
I'm a favorite against Antonio
or Ivey or you, just that I
wanna play.
- [Deeb] I think one of the
three
you made clear you're a
favorite.
- [Hellmuth] Yeah, but you
consistently underestimate me.
You'll keep underestimating me
'til I have like 30 bracelets.
Until I've won, like, $30 or $40
million.
- [Deeb] I don't think I've
ever underestimated you.
I've given you ample credit
throughout the years.
- [Hellmuth] No, I don't
mind being underestimated.
It's good for me.
I like being underestimated.
- [Dealer] Raise. $850.
- [Deeb] He's already
raised.
- [Jeganathan] Oh.
- [Deeb] He raised $1,000
more.
- [Torelli] Well, he didn't
give anything away.
He just showed his hand.
- [Dealer] $1,850.
- Doesn't really change much, I
guess.
(laughing)
I take it back. I just call.
No, I'm just kidding.
It seems so absurd. $300?
Uh, I gotta.
- [Dealer] Call.
- [Hellmuth] Somebody finally
caught Chad.
(laughing)
- [Shak] That would of made me
fold.
- [Schneider] Yeah.
Yeah.
-[Deeb] That was a sick hand.
- I think we'll give you an A
for effort on that one, Chad.
Even though you didn't win,
you should still feel
pretty good about it.
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- [Hanson] This is
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Let's get back to the cash
game here at SugarHouse.
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(Player chatter)
- [Schneider] No one's,
uh, watching the live feed
or getting updates.
That's what we said yesterday.
- [Hellmuth] Oh, no.
If you know of the rule that
we had yesterday's in effect.
If you get information, you
share it with everybody. 
- [Schneider] Okay.
Did they tell you that?
- [Esther] Yes.
- [Schneider] Okay.
- [Hanson] Jeganathan is back
at it.
Raises it to $350.
- Thanks.
- Sorry. I just thought you
were folding.
- You see one of my cards
and you thought I was folding?
- [Hanson] Deeb calls.
- And now you go to
re-raise.
- [Hanson] Schneider will
call from his $100 straddle.
- [Deeb] But I can't
shut out Tom, or Phil.
- [Torelli] What the hell is
that?
- [Hellmuth] Putting this away.
Everybody's making fun of my old
phone.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Hanson] Everyone's
checking.
Here comes the turn.
- [Hanson] Deeb's
pair of tens is ahead.
Let's see if he bets this time
around.
Deeb bets roughly the cost
of yet another phone for Phil
Hellmuth.
$600
and now a raise from
Schneider.
- All in.
- [Hanson] And Shaun
Deeb pushes the gas
all the way to the floor and
goes all in.
Gets Schneider to fold, and
Shaun Deeb,
well, he's being Shaun Deeb.
- [Jeganathan] That's so absurd.
You're crazy.
- [Elias] Sleeper straddle?
- Straddle and a sleeper.
- Straddle and a sleeper.
- [Schneider] Straddle and a
sleeper.
Whoa!
(laughing)
- [Deeb] What just happened?
- [Schneider] I don't even know.
(laughing)
- [Schneider] I was looking
down, going,
"What happened to all my chips?"
- [Hellmuth] We thought
you were such a gambler.
Did you see that?
Did you get that on camera?
We thought he was such a
gambler.
He saw that 2K laying out
there, he's like, "Whoa!"
- [Schneider] Scared the hell
outta me.
(laughing)
Scared the hell outta me.
- [Hellmuth] He didn't even
consider it for a second,
like it was a bluff, he
just grabbed the money.
And I thought you were a
gambler.
- [Schneider] I'm not a
gambler. You know that.
I only put it in with the nuts.
- Sorry. I couldn't help
myself.
- No, that's perfect.
I love it.
- [Hellmuth] I don't know
why it doesn't ever come
like 10, five, deuce
when you have five, six
and I have jack, seven.
How much you'll give me? But
I'll bet.
- [Shak] You're basically
all in on a sleeper straddle.
(laughing)
- That's pretty good.
- Pot committed him.
- [Schneider] That was really
good.
Is that a, uh--
- That's a real straddle.
- Oh, well that's a call.
Alright, then. I'm not gonna
raise.
(laughing)
- [Deeb] Even when he's not
here,
he still has the best hand.
- [Shak] I love this guy.
- [Torelli] It's a pretty good
life.
- [Schneider] Not even drinking
yet.
- [Deeb] He's sitting
at home on the stream.
- [Hanson] Four players
with no pre-flop raises.
I don't know what to make of
this.
- [Deeb] He thought I wouldn't
say it out loud.
- [Hellmuth] No, I think that's
clever.
You should say that out loud.
Why wouldn't you?
- [Hanson] And Elias
for the second time tonight
has flopped two pair.
- [Torelli] Those people have
insightful answers, too.
- [Deeb] Yeah, no, I think
it's actually a good quote
for the whole table to answer.
- [Hanson] Holloway
calls the $300 with his 10s.
- I'm pretty sure I'm not good.
- [Hanson] And so, three
players will see the turn.
Six of diamonds.
- [Dealer] $1,000.
- [Hanson] Tom Schneider,
now the double belly buster.
Looking for either a 10 or a
seven to make that straight.
Last time, it was Dan Shak
that pulled the rug out from
under Elias.
Let's see if Schneider
can do the same here.
He calls the $1,000 bet.
- [Dealer] Heads up.
- [Hanson] And Schneids does
it.
- [Dealer] All in.
- [Elias] How much is it?
$1,500?
- [Deeb] $1,575?
- [Dealer] $1,600.
- [Torelli] Off your game.
- [Deeb] Huh?
- [Torelli] You're off your
game.
- [Deeb] No one just
went with it blindly.
- [Hanson] And Darren
Elias is in a terrible spot.
Last time he made the right
fold.
This time, it's only $1,600
more.
And survey says, "I call."
Well, he's not saying much,
but I guarantee ya that Darren
Elias
is thinking plenty right now.
We've got more from Philadephia
when we return on Poker Night in
America.
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- Welcome back to Poker Night in
America,
at SugarHouse in Philadelphia.
Alright, let's stack 'em up,
boys.
Well, we'll pause for the
evening,
and our biggest winner
thus far is Dan Shak.
He's already up over $15,000.
And poor Darren Elias.
He's already down almost $10,000
on his first trip to
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- [Hellmuth] Whoo hoo hoo hoo!
Let Phil get lucky. Yum yum!
- Imagine if the hands were
flipped.
(laughing)
- [Hellmuth] I would have
handled it perfectly.
