- [Chris Hanson] From Sugar
House in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
this is Poker Night in America.
(upbeat music)
- [Hanson] Welcome to
Poker Night in America.
I'm your host, Chris Hanson.
Tonight we're back at
Sugar House in Philadelphia
joining our cash game which
is already in full swing.
While the pots have been
impressive,
some of the most
jaw-dropping play thus far
has been a handful of incredible
folds.
Now, any good player can scoop a
pot
but only great players can
see when it's time to fold
and cauterize the wound.
We may even see some more
incredible reads tonight.
Also, a little later on in the
episode,
Nolan Dalla returns to
edify us all in the ways
of Dalla-ism.
Sit back, relax, and
watch the action unfold.
Or just sit back, relax
and watch some fold action.
Day three continues at Sugar
House
and Dan Shak has been
doing the most damage.
He's up almost $15,000
and currently sits with the
biggest stack at our table,
just a couple of bucks under
$30,000.
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- [Schneider] We need to start
drinkin'.
We're getting complaints.
- [Torelli] I have my beer.
- [Hanson] And we've started
the night with Tom Schneider
enabling the rest of the table.
Calling for drinks already.
- [Hellmuth] What's
everybody complaining about?
- [Schneider] They're
complaining there's no lively
chat here.
We gotta step up.
- [Hellmuth] Someone complained
there was no lively chat?
- [Schneider] Yeah.
- [Dealer] 300.
- [Schneider] I'm just saying
- [Deeb] 30 minutes ago there
wasn't,
now we just had a good
philos-.. philological...blah.
- [Schneider] Yeah. That's easy
for you to say.
- [Hanson] Chad Holloway raises
with ace seven.
Jeganathan with queens calls.
- [Hellmuth] The problem with
this group is...
the problem with this group is
there's a good conversation here
and here,
and then,
one group won't stop talking.
And then all of a sudden
everybody shuts up.
- [Schneider] Right.
So who should we get rid
of at the table then, Phil,
if we want to improve that?
- [Hellmuth] Whoever keeps
talking over the top of
everybody.
- [Schneider] Okay. Who is that?
You have an opinion on
everything, so who is that?
- [Hellmuth] I'm not gonna say.
- [Schneider] Oh, wow.
Wow.
If it was me, you would say.
- [Hellmuth] Hell, yeah.
(chuckling)
- I know that.
- [Hanson] Do we label this
under "friendly banter" or not?
- [Hellmuth] It's Chad.
- [Holloway] It's Chad.
(laughing) - [Holloway] I can't
help myself.
(laughing) - [Holloway] I can't
help myself.
- [Hellmuth] Chad, shut up,
Chad.
Really, you're talking way too
much.
- [Hanson] Jeganathan has been
out-flopped by Shaun Deeb.
- [Hanson] Jeganathan has been
out-flopped by Shaun Deeb.
- [Holloway] A lot of different
personalities at this table.
- [Hellmuth] It's true.
- [Schneider] Meanwhile, we have
a nice little pot growing.
- [Hellmuth] I like the
conversation with our
cardiologist over here,
that we had going earlier.
I find that pretty interesting.
- [Deeb] 900.
- [Dealer] 900.
- [Hellmuth] Until Dan Shak
freaked me out.
That wasn't Dan.  Who was it?
It was Shaun Deeb, (chuckling)
he said poker players need
cardiologists. (chuckling)
- [Elias] He's building a client
base right now.
- [Hellmuth] Huh?
- [Elias] He's building up
clients right now.
- [Hellmuth] Yes.
(chuckling)
- [Torelli] Free advertising.
- [Hanson] Jeganathan calls the
900.
- [Hanson] Check from Deeb
brings a five on the river.
2200 was the bet from
Jeganathan.
A call from Deeb.
And Shaun is gonna scoop the
$8,800 pot.
- [Hellmuth] All right, I want
you to explain somethin' to me.
So there's this new research out
that I couldn't believe when I
read it.
It said doesn't matter what you
eat.
- [Jeganathan] Okay.
- [Hellmuth] As far as
cholesterol goes.
So I coulda been at like...I...
I haven't eaten many cheeseburgs
in the last 20 years 'cuz I
want to keep my cholesterol low.
Now I find out I could have
eaten a cheeseburger every day.
I may weigh more--
- [Jeganathan] Do you actually
believe
that that's a true statement?
- [Hellmuth] I believe the
study, yeah.
It looked like it was,
it looked like it come from the
AMA.
- [Jeganathan] I mean, there's a
lot of accredited studies
that are full of garbage.
But I mean, so that might
be the one conclusion
that they drew,
but then there's gonna be
a lot of other criteria
for why that's the case.
- [Hellmuth] Well, what do you
mean by that?
- [Jeganathan] So, you can say
that eating whatever you want is
fine,
you know, as long as you
proportion what you're eating.
So you eat a quarter of a
hamburger or a cheeseburger,
and then that's your cheat food.
And you eat that with dinner,
but your dinner is now healthy.
So the study could be
completely, you know, confounded
by what the quantity is you're
eating.
I mean, obviously if you sit
there
and eat a cheeseburger a day,
you're gonna have some serious
problems.
Not just heart problems, ya
know?
- [Hanson] We interrupt
this episode of The Doctors
to get back to Poker Night in
America.
Flop is nine high,
and so Tayor-Brady's
Jacks are still ahead.
- [Schneider] Practicing
doctors,
don't answer this question if
you know.
- [Dealer] 475.
- What percentage of doctors are
a member of the AMA?
- [Hellmuth] What percentage of
doctors are a member of the AMA?
Uh, 100%.
- [Deeb] I would...5%?
Phrase it that way, it's
gotta be a low percentage.
- [Schneider] 17%.
So that when all those
people were bragging
about the AMA supporting
Obamacare?
Only 17% of their practicing
doctors are members
of the AMA.
- [Hellmuth] Oh, I see what you
did,
you switched it to Obamacare
somehow.
- [Schneider] Yeah.
- [Hellmuth] Okay.
- [Schneider] Well, I mean, you
gotta have lively debate.
That should spark
something.
- [Hanson] I don't
know if this is a road
we necessarily want to
start going down, Phil.
If you wouldn't mind.
- [Hellmuth] Agreed.
- [Schneider] What do you guys
wanna do?
- [Chris] Toirelli's got a pair
of fours,
and he picked up the
Flush draw on the turn.
Taylor-Brady in the nine
seat has already checked.
And now Toirelli is thinking
through his options.
I know he's all locked up.
All wifed up.
- [Schneider] He's locked up,
I like that.
- [Deeb] You gotta get him on
this show. He'll love it.
Didn't think of him when I was
thinking
of people to get on this
show, but he'll be perfect.
- [Elias] He'd be good.
- [Deeb] Yeah.
He'd have a good time,
he'd be good acting.
- [Elias] Owens used to be
good, we should get him.
- [Deeb] I tried to get him.
It was initially the last time..
They were like going somewhere,
like, when they went to AC,
he basically told Matt he
wouldn't go on the show.
But he said if it wasn't
convenient,
he wouldn't fly somewhere for
it.
He was so mad he didn't
get in the AC show.
- He would come here.
- Well, he was (mumbling).
Yeah, between AC and here,
he'll definitely play when he's
here.
- [Hellmuth] It's an
honor to be on the show.
- [Schneider] I agree.
- [Hellmuth] A lot of people
can't get on this show.
- [Schneider] Chad Holloway got
on it.
- [Holloway] I had to pull a lot
of strings.
- [Schneider] Did you?
- [Holloway] A lot of favors,
yep.
- [Deeb] Nolan has a
soft spot for writers, though,
it's not really fair.
- [Torelli] But that was
the name of the article?
- [Schneider] He's got a
lot of soft spots, trust me.
With that body.
- [Hanson] The river doesn't
come in for Toirelli.
And so action is first now
on Taylor-Brady here on the
river.
Let's see what she does.
- [Hellmuth] 20 potatoes a day?
- [Deeb] For 60 days.
- [Hellmuth] I saw that,
and it helped them every,
he helped like...
All he ate was 20 potatoes a
day.
- [Deeb] We also don't
know how much more he exercised.
- [Jeganathan] There's a lot
to it about genetics, to.
Sometimes no matter
what you do, you can't--
- [Deeb] I mean, it's a one
person study,
like you can't really go for,
the guy like, is obviously
beneficial potatoes,
so he may just worked his
(bleep) off
and worked out every day.
To try to make his numbers
low the day before.
- [Hanson] Is there one more
bet  from Alec Torelli 
to try to take this thing down.
to try to take this thing down.
[Deeb] It's easy with one 
sample size.
- [Hanson] That is a beast of a
bet.
$5,400.
And it looks like it's
enough to get Taylor-Brady
to put the Jacks back in the
deck.
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- [Chris Hanson] Thanks for
coming back to Poker Night in
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I'm your host Chris Hanson.
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- [Hellmuth] I mean, it doesn't
happen, it rarely happens
that someone wins two
golds during the Olympics.
It just so happens that he's
done it.
- [Elias] Tough to root
against Phelps.
So un-American.
(chuckling)
- [Shak] I can't bet against
him.
- [Jeganathan] (laughing) I
realized that as I booked it.
- [Elias] Oh, you booked it?
- [Jeganathan] Yes, I
cancelled, then I realized--
- [Deeb] He just wanted
to have a bet with Phil.
It's like the advantage of,
he's taking the worst
of the bet, probably.
So now you can get Phil
Hellmuths number.
There's a lot of benefits to the
bet.
- [Jeganathan] I did not
think of it like that, but--
- [Hellmuth] I actually did,
but does that mean I have a big
ego?
- [Deeb] No one thinks you have
a big ego, Phil. We know.
(chuckling)
I mean, to get a shirt made like
that.
(chuckling)
- [Hellmuth] You know, people
have been begging me
to have this shirt made for
years.
Like, people first said,
like I've heard--
- [Dealer] 550 to go.
- It's weird, this is the one
shirt
that everybody said, "You need
to make What Would Phil Do?"
Like,
since '05. - [Holloway] They
were referring to Phil Ivey.
(laughing)
- [Hellmuth] They may well have
been referring to Phil Ivey,
but...
(laughing)
- It's the one shirt
that has been requested
for a decade straight.
So I'm pretty sure we're
gonna sell a lot of these.
- [Jeganathan] The fact that
there's so many Phils in poker
makes it a pretty decent shirt.
- [Hellmuth] Maybe they need to
take this off.
- [Deeb] Something about your
name and your profession,
by the way, like the first
letter of your name is so high
a likelihood to be your
profession.
- [Jeganathan] What do you mean?
- [Deeb] Like, like P for poker,
Phil'.
Like Alec, you should start
maybe accounting something.
Whatever the first letter of
your name is,
you're more likely to be that
profession.
Like, in that profession,
you're more likely to
start with the same letter.
- [Hellmuth] Is that right?
- [Deeb] Yeah.
- [Deeb] I mean, I read a study.
We talked about studies that
are,
you don't know they're true.
I read it. It seems somewhat
logical.
- [Hellmuth] So if your name is,
uh,
begins with an S, you're
more likely to be a stripper?
- [Deeb] You know, it, strippers
are more likely
to be an S than other letters.
- [Schneider] What about their
real names?
(chuckling)
- [Deeb] Only you spend enough
to get
their real names, Tom.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- [Hanson] Again, the
discussions
on Poker Night in America,
they're really what makes the
show.
- [Torelli] Pretty
quick, that's pretty good.
- [Hanson] Taylor-Brady bet 850,
and the action is now on Darren.
- [Hellmuth] Shaun.
S.
Male stripper.
- [Dealer] Two players.
- [Hanson] Ellias sits
his eight on the turn.
- [Hellmuth] Shaun owns a sub
franchise.
(chuckling)
- [Hanson] But that third club
gives
both Taylor-Brady and Elias a
flush draw.
- [Torelli] Use a study
to say what you want.
- [Hellmuth] Really need to be
stretching .
- [Hanson] River's another four.
- [Deeb] You know,
like actors and actresses,
they have a lot of A's.
- [Hanson] Elias checks.
- [Deeb] I don't know, I thought
about a lot of different
professions at the time,
and I was like, "Yeah."
- [Schneider] I think we should
play a "Must Needle" game.
- [Deeb] Isn't that what this
always is?
- [Schneider] No, it's--
- [Deeb] No compliments given?
Pay a penalty if you give
a compliment to someone?
You say like, "Nice hand," or
something,
you have to pay out?
- [Torelli] Yeah. That would be
fun.
- I always wanted to
play that trash talk game
they had at Hard Rock years ago.
- [Schneider] Yeah, exactly.
- [Deeb] It sounded like fun.
- Yeah, a must slow roll?
That's be fine. A must slow
roll.
- [Deeb] The one problem was
it slows down the game so much
if it's done all the time.
- [Schneider] Right. Well,
but it's still fun, though.
- [Deeb] You expect it coming.
- [Schneider] Yeah.
But you don't know it's coming,
because it's a slow roll.
- [Dealer] 1600.
- [Deeb] Oh, I always know.
- Do you want me to
slow roll you next time?
- [Deeb] You never have the best
hand .
- I know, that's the problem.
- You could slow roll me by tank
folding,
that's about all you can do.
- (chuckling) That is slow 
rolling.
Trust me, I almost did it last
time.
- [Hanson] And Elias makes the
call.
And Esther Taylor-Brady
will win her first hand
on Poker Night in America.
- [Elias] Does Phil know
something we don't?
- [Deeb] He's friends with, very
close to them, so.
- [Deeb] He's friends with, very
close to them, so.
talking with him on how he
trains and stuff.
- [Shak] He's still gotta beat
the other,
he's still not alone in the
pool.
- Yeah.
(chuckling)
- [Torelli] He definitely
has a better guess
of where he's at right now than
what we do though.
- [Hanson] We're talking
about Michael Phelps
and his return to the
Olympics next summer.
- [Hellmuth] I didn't text
anybody.
- [Deeb] I know, I know.
I'm saying I could have texted,-
One of his buddies
is a big swimmer.
- [Shak] If two people
break the world record,
then he does not break the world
record.
If the other guy has
a higher world record.
Let's clarify that.
He breaks the world record,
but loses the race to someone
with a higher world record.
- [Elias] That's not a world
record.
- [Deeb] That's not a world
record, he doesn't get it.
- [Hellmuth] I don't think
he gets the world record.
- [Shak] That's right.
- [Hellmuth] My instincts are to
pop.
How much do we got there?
- [Torelli] Yeah, because it's,
yeah, it's a good
clarification.
Cause that
happens a lot, right?
Not a lot.
- Why would I ever pop this up?
In a million years.
You're 100% gonna outdraw me.
- [Dealer] Check.
- [Hanson] No, you're wrong, Mr.
Hellmuth
You're not much of a psychic.
Your sevens are still ahead.
- [Dealer] 400.
- [Hellmuth] All right.
- [Hanson] Schneider bet
400, Hellmuth called.
- [Elias] Oh, the thing?
- [Esther] I keep not having
anywhere to put my phone.
- [Dealer] 500.
Shaun keeps yelling at me
for putting it on the rim.
- I can't help it, I have
to put one bluff out there.
- Pair of sevens.
- That's good.
- Now we're playing poker.
This feels a little different.
- [Hanson] Don't go anywhere,
we've got more cash game from
Sugar House
when we return.
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Chad Holloway's
been fairly quiet tonight.
- [Esther] It's my friend's rum
company.
- [Hanson] Limps in with the
suited ace.
- [Esther] Um, Portland, Oregon.
- [Hanson] Jaeganathan bumps it
up to 450.
- [Hanson] Jaeganathan bumps it
up to 450.
- [Esther] I've had it,
it's very smooth rum.
- [Dealer] Oh, nine of clubs.
- Good for mixing, then?
- Yes
- Really, I was just
getting ready to call,
and they flushed the nine of
clubs?
- [Hanson] Toirelli calles with
ace king.
- [Esther] We're probably gonna
have a small viewing party
for the WPT.
'Cuz it's June 17th in Vegas,
and they're gonna sponsor.
- [Hanson] Fives for
Ellias in the straddle.
- [Deeb] So obviously
you're wearing that
at your WPT final tape?
- [Hanson] He calls.
And now back to Chad Holloway.
Holloway calls.
- [Holloway] It's so hard to
know if you're gonna get in.
- [Hanson] Four players to the
flop.
Both Toirelli and Holloway hit
their ace.
Alec Toirelli bets 1,100.
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- I'm all in.
- [Dealer] All in, call.
- I think I'm beat.
- [Hanson] Well day two is
very good to Chad Holloway
on Poker Night in America.
Day three is not doing so well.
Holloway needs a six,
otherwise he's gonna be emptied.
And Toirelli will scoop the
$6,700 pot.
And it looks like Hollway's
gonna have
to reload the funds.
- [Torelli] Poker's such a great
metaphor
for understanding so many
different things
that happen in life.
- [Hellmuth] And pivoting. Like,
pivoting.
Like every great businessman
pivots now.
Like all these businesses
that started from one thing,
and ended up pivoting 
and making a four or
five billion, you know.
It's crazy.
And in our profession, we have
to pivot .
- Yeah.
Everybody, everybody,
everybody, everybody--
- [Deeb] My focus of
like how to earn has changed
so much in like the last five
years.
- [Dealer] 175.
- [Hellmuth] All the online
players play right here
in this narrow band,
and so I have to figure
out how to hack it.
And then a year later
they play in this band
and I figure out how to hack it.
That's what I do.
I pivot, boys.
Greg, how you doin'?
- [Hanson] Phil Hellmuth. The
Pivoter.
- [Holloway] Yeah, I got 50--
- [Hellmuth] Good, we're like
five minutes before break.
- [Hanson] All right,
three players to the flop.
Dan Shak flops the flush.
Chad Holloway has one of his
outs for the straight flush.
- [Deeb] Don't forget your
mic, Phil.
- 275.
- [Hanson] Just to make sure
he's in a good position,
Dan Shak also makes a straight,
I mean, just to show off.
And he's still ahead with the
flush.
Taylor-Brady bets 850.
- I'm anti-sweating Phil again -
- [Hanson] Taylor-Brady open
ended for the straight,
and has the second nut flush
draw
with the river yet to come.
Shak's gonna make her pay for
it.
He raises it up to 4,000.
Back to Holloway.
He will fold, and wow,
Dan Shak continues to roll over
this table here at Sugar House.
When we return, we'll tally the
numbers
and Nolan Dalla shares
some thoughts on the game.
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- Welcome back to Poker Night.
All right, let's find out
who the big winners are.
Well, after winning that last
pot,
Dan Shak is now up to $36,200
That means he's had a profit
tonight
of over $21,000.
It's a great day three for Dan
Shak .
- So who is the greatest
poker player of all time?
There's usually no clear,
or no right answer.
That said, allow me to start the
debate
and toss out a few candidates.
If we were to define
greatness by longevity,
which means beating the game
consistently over many decades,
one would be hard-pressed to
come up
with a greater poker
player than Doyle Brunson.
He's been an old time
rounder for six decades.
Some might even say that
Brunson has become synonymous
with the game itself.
But if greatness is to mean
mastering
the widest variety of poker
games,
and being universally acknowledd
as the best all-around player,
the late Chip Reese comes
to mind immediately.
When he lived and played,
Reese was respected and
even revered by his peers
in virtually every single form
of Poker.
Reese probably played for higher
stakes
and earned more money than
any poker player alive
during his lifetime.,
and even won the very first
Poker Player's Championship.
In fact, today the trophy
for that annual event
is named in his honor.
But if greatness is to be
measured by innovation,
and doing what's unconventional,
then Stu Ungar must be
mentioned.
He didn't read any poker books,
rather, he wrote the book,
at least when it came
to fearless aggression.
He made astounding strategic
moves
and mega-brave hero calls at the
table
that no one in the world would 
have done.
Oh, and he also won
three World Poker Championships.
So who is the greatest
poker player in history?
I suspect that for all the
masters with us and before us,
the very greatest is out there
somewhere.
Perhaps someone watching me now.
Maybe someone who hasn't
even been born yet.
For Poker Night in
America, I'm Nolan Dalla,
and that's my two cents.
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