- [Voiceover] From
Las Vegas, Nevada
this is Poker Night in America.
(upbeat jazz music)
- Welcome to Poker
Night in America
with Joe Stapleton,
I'm Chris Hanson.
We're headed back
to Vegas for our
Twitch celebrity cash game.
- You know I never thought
I'd be saying Twitch
and celebrity in
the same sentence,
but that's the world we
live in apparently, kappa.
Look it up, gramps.
- [Hanson] The twitch celebrity
cash game from Vegas,
Phil Hellmuth, no surprise,
he likes to go in low
and build it up, but how
much money people are in for
is starting to really pile up.
- Yeah absolutely, and
especially Antonio Esfandiari,
he's down more right
now than most people
bought in for in
the first place.
- We were thinking
of pulling an Antonio
and actually studying the game.
I read on the
internet three days ago
Antonio decided to learn.
(laughter)
It's true, did you guys not
see, it was on F5 Poker.
- I didn't see it.
- Antonio starts to
learn how to play poker.
- [Hellmuth] I thought he was
going to remain stupid
the rest of his life, he was
going to coast on the 18 million
he won and never
learn or get better.
'Cause why bother?
- [Laak] Joe, Chicago Joey
made a podcast.
- A guy like me, no matter
how many Hold'Em bracelets
I win, I'm always
studying and looking.
- [Stapleton] Yeah, but Phil's
mostly studying his own books.
- [Laak] Chicago Joey did a 
podcast a week ago, and on
minute 30--
- [Stapleton] The ones he wrote.
Antonio revealed
that he watches first
like what do you call it, those
training video things right.
- [Hanson] Kings for
Somerville, and
JCarver makes it 300.
- What did you watch?
- It's confidential.
- [O'Brien] It was just for the
show.
- Just for the show.
- [Laak] I only made it public
that he started to learn
because he told the world first.
I wouldn't of ever outed him
if he wanted to secretly learn.
- Honestly I thought his
ego was too big to learn.
- [Stapleton] Queen high flop is
a good look for Kings,
Scott Ball's caught a piece.
- [O'Brien] His brain is just
too smart.
- [Hellmuth] You have to learn,
Antonio
and see what they're
doing, yet you have to--
- Do you know how
much video time
you're going to have
to log before you--
- You're so much better than me,
yet you won't play me
heads up for a taser gun.
Like why won't you do that?
- I told you we can
just go play heads up,
I will go play heads up--
- Let's play heads up.
- I like playing 5, 10K a pop.
- Let's play a 100K
and winner shoots
the loser with a taser gun.
I want the taser gun bonus.
- Jason, how many
hours do you think
he has to watch of videos
before he learns something?
Is it like 10?
- 20 minutes, not even.
- 20 minutes.
- It takes nothing.
- He's definitely learning, you
can see from his-
He's learning pretty well.
- He's like Bradley Cooper
in Limitless, he just--
- Oh yeah like
Limitless, the film.
- Yeah, but he lost his supply.
- Oh, he lost his supply of the
pills.
That's why he's going
to watch the videos.
Antonio let's watch Jason
Somerville's Running Up.
It's fun, it's entertaining,
and he talks about
like abusing button
power, it's great.
- Antonio has been
on there before.
- That's true.
I heard about the flip.
He got me stuck the same number
and then I got an out just
like--
- He had me almost for
a 72 I think, right?
- He flipped at 36 right?
- 36.
- Yeah you were at
18, flip for 18 each.
- We were at 18 going
to 36? That was nice.
- We were at 18 going
to 27, and then I got,
I started working it back after
that win.
He decided if he plays
this in the future
he's quitting at 18.
- [Esfandiari] Can I get chips
please?
What am I in, 30?
- Yes.
- 20 please.
- [Stapleton] Good fold by
Scott.
- [Hanson] Antonio buying
another 20,000 in chips,
that puts him in for 50K.
- [Stapleton] Hi-ya!
- Yeah I've now lost 36K flips
to both of you and Phil Laak,
that's kind of cool, that's
kind of a cool, little story.
Almost better than
having 70K from both,
the combined both of you.
- Priceless story.
- Priceless.
My two biggest,
or two of my three
biggest coin flips,
is to you two.
- There you go.
- Thank you.
- [Stapleton] The Twitchers
versus the seniors,
with Dan O'Brien
straddling this hand.
As a blind raise under the gun,
you got to put it out
there before you even
see what your cards are.
- [O'Brien] This is a raise,
right?
- Yes, I looked at my cards
and then I put 200
out. In that order.
- [Esfandiari] The greatest we
have, Phil Laak.
- [Stapleton] So we're four
ways to this flop.
- You at least have
to study to see
what the kids are
doing, right like,
they'll get locked
into one strategy
and they all think everything's,
this is the way to play.
Every time they use
the word standard
and then I have to figure out
a way to beat their standard.
That's why I look.
- You figured it out.
- [Stapleton] What would Phil
do?
- Yeah, and then all I got to do
and go to the internet, oh
this is their new standard,
okay then I'll do that
and this and this.
- All in.
- [Dealer] All in.
- [Hanson] What website do
you go to figure out
the new standard,
Stapes, any idea?
- PhillHellmuth.com,
is that a thing?
- That might be
the new standard.
- Elky's all in with
10 high, good thing
nobody had a queen.
- [Laak] Elky is that going to
hurt me
when I find out what you had?
- Eh, no, it's not that
bad. I had outs.
- Oh damn, it's going to hurt,
huh?
You had a five-seven.
- Even worse.
- [Stapleton] Much better when
Elky lets the cards do the
talking.
- Why, could you beat 9-10,
Phil?
- Unless he had a queen.
- Thank you Vicki.
- But he's not folding
a queen obviously.
- I could beat no
pair, you had no pair?
- I had no pair.
A lot of pair draws
though, a lot of draws.
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- [Esfandiari] Mr. Somerville,
I'm ready for you.
Let's play a big one.
- [Hanson] How many World Series
of Poker bracelets
do we have around the table?
- [Stapleton] Well the only ones
that count are Phil's 14.
- [Hanson] Elky's got bracelets,
right?
- [Stapleton] Elky's got one or
two.
- [Hanson] No I mean he's
wearing, he's very fashionable--
- [Stapleton] He does have some
bracelets, yes.
- [Hanson] That's what I
meant, I'm sorry.
- [Stapleton] He owns wrist
accessories, correct.
- [Hanson] And right on cue,
Elky raises with ace-king
suited.
- [Hanson] Antonio Esfandiari
in the small blind
is going to raise to
1,200 with ace-queen.
There's aces everywhere
around this table.
- I wonder if my
read is like, "oops."
- Ding, ding, ding, ding.
- [Stapleton] Scott just calls
with two 10's
and he is probably going to 
have to call a little bit more
because I think Elky is probably
going to pile it in here.
- I thought Elky
was going all in--
- I was right then.
- My read was right.
- Yeah, I think
those can go back.
- Yeah, feels good
when that happens.
Goes fold, fold 200.
- [Hanson] So Elky is all in
for 3,200
and Esfandiari is going to
bet enough to put Ball all in.
- [Stapleton] These two put
Scott at a bad spot.
- [Hanson] He's got the best
hand!
- [Lew] Nice leading with seven
high.
- [Laak] I'm not worried about
the deuce-seven anymore.
- [Lew] They might be isolating.
- Sad thing is this
is like a super-nutty fold,
I'm not even afraid of Antonio,
but I'm so afraid of Elky.
- Whatever, I just want to
get the dead money in there.
- Nice going Antonio, I
have better than ace-jack.
- Yeah you got me.
- [Stapleton] Scott just not
rolled the way they are,
gets out of the way.
- [O'Brien] Flipping one card?
- [Hellmuth] Elky had the nuts,
so I laid down--
- [Laak] Yeah, and that's the
rule.
- [Esfandiari] Yeah, yeah
whatever.
- Ohhh.
- [Stapleton] Ten on the flop.
- Tens.
- What?
- Tens?
- You had a set of tens?
- Yeah.
- [Stapleton] Forget about Elky
winning this hand,
if you folded tens there,
how do you sleep tonight?
Or ever again?
(laughter)
- Oh the nut
straight, queen-nine suited.
- [Stapleton] Not now Phil, come
on, who calls with queen-nine?
- [Grospellier] Pretty good for
me, I guess.
- [Stapleton] Certainly not you.
- [O'Brien] Guess so.
- It would have beeen hard to
win post-flop on that board.
- [Hanson] Elky's going to
double up, Scott Ball's going to
be left with a bad
taste in his mouth.
- [Stapleton] And Antonio
continues to be stuck.
- [Hanson] He's in this game for
50K now.
- [Stapleton] Antonio's losing
50K but at least
he's getting an education.
- [Hanson] He either could've
done three years at a private
school or sit next to Phil,
same difference.
- [Stapleton] This is obviously
more valuable.
- If I had another
3,000 I would've called.
And there's Antonio,
there's Antonio
who's vision isn't
open right now,
he doesn't see
you're super strong
so he just re-raises
'cause he's on tilt.
I can't get to the flop anyway.
And he's eating, he's supposed
to be playing really tight.
- [Grospellier] That's why he's
mixing it up.
- No, then you raised twice,
and then they
re-raised you twice,
and so you tightened
down your range
like I knew you would,
but they don't think,
like there's no reading
ability, there's not math,
there's no logic,
just Antonio on tilt.
- [Laak] We call that AOT,
Antonio on Tilt.
- Antonio on Tilt.
- [Lew] Antonio on Tilt.
- That's it, you know.
Here he goes again.
- Raise.
- There's a song, you
know that song, Phil?
- Here I go again on my own.
- Oh yeah.
- Oh, so out of key.
Oh that's horrible.
- We're going to have an
entire musical collage
we can put together between
the rapping, the singing,
we'll have it all ready.
- Going down that lonely road.
- White Magic meet White Snake.
- Going down the only
round I've ever known.
- What do I have to
pay to have you sing
at my wedding Phil?
Like get a solid appearance fee,
do I get like a small
friendship discount,
but like 20K maybe or something
like that you would do it?
- [Hanson] That's with the small
friendship discount?
- I wouldn't sing, I'd just rap.
- That would be great, you
can do whatever you want.
I'd let it be an
open performance.
- Just rap.
- [Stapleton] I've seen Phil rap
in person, you know 2 Chainz?
- So out of key.
- [Stapleton] Phil's
14 Bracelets.
- That's such a great
song by White Snake too.
I just butchered it.
- [Hanson] Randy Lew sent his
first 5,000 dollars
on Poker Night in
America earlier tonight
to Antonio Esfandiari.
And he's going after
some of that money again,
he makes it 3,100.
- Would you have re-raised,
if I would've called?
- Probably not.
- You saw he was
strong too, right?
- Yeah, he was strong for sure.
- Yeah.
- [Stapleton] Antonio should be
folding,
unless there's some eight-four
rule I don't know about.
- [Hanson] But he calls.
- [Hellmuth] You know people
think that reads
are always like
helpful, and of course
you know you make an
extra 20, 30 million
over your career
if you read well.
(laughter)
But, sometimes a good
read's very costly.
Sometimes a great read's costly.
Someone raises,
someone re-raises,
you know that the 10's are good.
- [Stapleton] Randy's got the
best hand,
but that is a stupid
flop for jacks.
Antonio's going to
be able to bluff
Randy off this I think.
- The guy with jack-eight
somehow shoves.
- [Hanson] Check from Lew.
- It's a Jack in there.
- [Hanson] Check behind from
Antonio.
- [Stapleton] Antonio's going
to check more often
when he has something than when
he has nothing in my opinion.
- [Hanson] Three on the turn.
- [Stapleton] And there's
absolutely no chance Antonio
doesn't take some
opportunity to bluff
at some point in this hand.
There's just now way
he calls pre-flop
with eight-four suited and just
expects to get lucky with it.
Randy's kind of playing his hand
face up a little bit too.
- [Hanson] Acting very
scared of the board.
Antonio doesn't take
his opportunity,
he checks, we go to the river.
- [Stapleton] Antonio rivers a
flush... draw.
- [Hanson] So will Lew fire on
the river?
- [Stapleton] I don't think he
can.
- [Hanson] Check-call is
probably going to be
his only play here.
He does check so
back to Antonio.
- [Stapleton] He's just got to
hope Antonio's
going to bluff at this.
So Antonio seen Randy
play this super passively
and he can't possibly
think eight high
has a chance of
winning at showdown,
he has to bluff it here.
- [Dealer] 3,000.
- [Ball] You know the 3Bet
stuff.
I don't like most
poker clothing,
but I like a lot of their stuff
so I ordered a couple shirts
and some of them were some
of the most comfortable
shirts I own. Really.
As I think it's actually
he has a long sleeve
one with a hoodie,
like a long sleeve,
like, thin hoodie, that's
such a comfortable shirt.
I think I have three of them.
- I signed with 3Bet because
I love their gear too.
- [Stapleton] Phil just said
he loves the gear
of the company he just
signed with.
- I'm getting a little bit older
so I wasn't sure I could
wear any of the
the tight-looking stuff, but--
- [Stapleton] That's weird.
- Everybody
told me I look good,
especially my wife, so,
and I like the shirt
that I wore the
last couple shows.
- [O'Brien] Who's else opinion
matters?
- My wife's opinion, you
know, that's good enough.
- [O'Brien] That's the only
one that matters.
- That's the only that matters.
- I can drink with
Sam Abernathy but--
- [Hanson] Ah Phil you dropped
a name.
- It's only my wife.
- [Hanson] Right... it's right
there by your shoe.
- [Stapleton] Who's Sam
Abernathy, oh wait I just
googled her.
- [Hanson] Oh ho ho.
So Antonio's bluff
works on the river.
- Don't go anywhere,
lots more action
from the Twitch
celebrity cash game
when we get back.
- Whoever enters
the room has to come
and give the guy a
kiss on both cheeks.
I'd love to do that with you.
- Okay.
- You're in?
- Yeah, of course.
- Oh my god, I can't
believe you accepted that.
I was kind of bluffing, I
was kind of bluffing Elky!
- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America
and the Twitch
celebrity cash game.
Let's bring it on
down to tableville.
- [Hanson] Chris Hanson
along with the man
who needs to shave his
beard, Joe Stapleton.
I'm just not a beard guy, sorry.
- [Stapleton] You don't like
beards, this is barely a beard.
Also I shaved to the
skin this morning.
- That's more love than
you're getting from me
in the next year by the way.
- [Dealer] Raise.
- [Hellmuth] That's it.
- [Esfandiari] I appreciate
it, I'll take what I can get.
- Only 'cause I whipped you,
only 'cause I whipped you.
- [Esfandiari] I'll take what I
can get.
- [Hellmuth] Only 'cause you
deserve the whip.
- [Stapleton] Scott Ball is
making his run for the seven-
deuce game.
[Hanson] We have not seen seven
-deuce scoop a pot yet tonight.
- [Esfandiari] It's amazing I'm
like just dreaming of getting
deuce-seven.
- It's pretty sick.
- [Laak] I know, it's the best
hand you can get in this game.
- If I see a deuce
or seven I'm like please.
- It really is sick.
- [Hanson] $200 bonus from every
player has not been paid.
- [Hellmuth] I'm hoping for
deuce-seven too.
- [Stapleton] Scott Ball trying
to run with the big dogs.
- But I also like fails though,
I so love deuce-to-seven fails.
- [Hanson] Well his seven-deuce
are now up against
four other players,
best of luck.
- [Stapleton] That's the thing,
to win with seven-deuce
you got to be an
absolute maniac,
I'm not sure he's got it in him.
He flops a pair, but Elky's
flopped the nut flush.
Scotty no, not like this!
Is that the president of
Poker Night in America
cleaning up after Antonio?
- [Hanson] No actually, that's
not Todd Anderson,
it's a guy we hired from
tallbaldcleaners.net.
- [Stapleton] Are you sure it
wasn't
tallbaldalbinocleaners.net?
- [Hanson] That's a ridiculous
URL.
- [Hellmuth] What are you going
to do when I leave in like 15
minutes?
- Negreanu's coming.
- Yeah, but, it's two hour
delay.
- Oh.
- [Hanson] All right back to the
action,
Scott Ball is doing bad
things here with seven-deuce.
- [Stapleton] Yeah, he's just
firing 1,600 into the abyss, no
big deal.
His only chance of winning
this hand at showdown
is if it comes running
sevens for quads.
- [Hanson] So you're saying
he's got a chance.
And Elky just smoothly
calls the 1,600.
- [Stapleton] It's actually a
pretty good board to bluff
in general, just not right now.
- I'm all in.
- All in.
- That's really bad for me.
- [Hanson] You maybe don't want
the kids
to watch what's about to happen.
A for effort guys.
- [Stapleton] No you do not,
when you get called that quickly
you know you were
in big, big trouble.
- Wow.
- You flopped it too.
- It was not that hard.
- It was not that hard.
- It was not that hard I mean.
- 5k more please.
- I don't know if
this deuce-to-sevens
is very good for the game.
(laughter)
- Exactly, it's not clear.
- It's not clear to me.
- You should have one
of the kids study it
and get back to us. Determine if
it's good for the game.
- Antonio set him up too.
Antonio's like I can't wait
to have deuce-to-seven,
I'm going to jam it
and the poor guy.
- I couldn't wait for you to
have it either in that hand.
That would be nice.
- They don't need to set me up.
They know, they don't
need to set it up for me.
I'm going to play it.
- Good point, it was
not, the setup was.
- It doesn't need to be
set up in all fairness.
- To be fair we
would have all lost
a lot of money with deuce-
to-seven to Elky that hand.
Except me, I would've
raised big before the flop.
- Yeah, that's how
you handle that one.
- You would have taken
it down before the flop.
- [Stapleton] "Except me." L-O-L
- 'Cause I'm playing so nitty.
- [Stapleton] Phil Hellmuth is
like a ming vase,
priceless and also pretty
fragile.
- What a game, I have this hand
and I have no option but
to play this hand weird.
- Three.
- [Dealer] Raise.
- [Ball] I was like well if he
doesn't have the nuts
he's probably going to fold.
- Yeah.
- [Hanson] Jason Somerville with
five-seven suited, raise to 300.
- Here comes Antonio,
15, here comes AOT.
- [Stapleton] And Phil's got him
nutted as far as clubs are
concerned.
But Antonio's not going to
let anyone see a cheap flop.
He's got what I like
to call Lady Kings.
- [Hanson] 1,500 is the bet from
Antonio.
- [Hellmuth] Oh my god Jason
why did you do that?
I wanted to limp in
and let him make it 700
and then I would only
have to put in 700
with the best hand.
- [Stapleton] In position Phil
can certainly take a flop with
this.
- I don't want to put 1,500
in with the best hand.
- [Stapleton] Ok Phil, whatever
you say Phil.
- [Ball] That's the best in
this, flop the nuts
and they just shove
into you, huh?
- [Grospellier] I had a pretty
good feeling,
especially when
you're like "oops."
- [Stapleton] It's looking like
a good fold, queens still good.
- It took Elky a really long
time for him to call, too.
- For sure.
- All in call.
All in call!
- [Grospellier] I mean, I'm not
going to slow roll him.
That's not nice.
- [Hanson] 2,200 the bet.
- [Stapleton] And as to be
expected, Jason folded the flop.
- [Hanson] More of our Twitch
celebrity cash game when we 
come back on Poker Night in
America.
- That's what it feels
like to win a pot.
- I would've had to
move all in on the flop.
Which would've been fun.
- I wouldn't have liked it.
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- [Hanson] Welcome back to
Poker Night in America,
we're back to the cash
game in Las Vegas.
- [Stapleton] And the straddle
is back on.
- [Hanson] Dan O'Brien with 
ace-eight of hearts makes it
350. 
Folding around to
Antonio on the button.
- Raise it.
- [Dealer] 350 total.
- Raise.
- [Stapleton] And a little more
AOT action.
He just loves to punish, making
it a 1,000 with king-nine.
- Elky what's that game,
what's that video game
where the rampage, you
have the big gorilla--
- It's called Rampage.
- It's called Rampage, right?
- Maybe, yeah yeah.
- It's like Antonio right
now, he's a big gorilla
trying to knock down the
building.
- [Stapleton] Hey, uh, Chris
what's that Pac-Man game called?
With Pac-Man?
- [Hanson] With the yellow thing
that bites things--
- [Stapleton] Yeah with the
Pac-Man thing.
- Right, am I right?
That's Antonio right now,
rampaging.
- [Hanson] Pac-Man.
- [Stapleton] Ahhh!
- [Hanson] Or is it Ms. Pac-Man?
- [Stapleton] Depends whether or
not she's wearing a bow in her
hair.
- [Hanson] True.
- [Stapleton] So Dan O'Brien
starts with the best hand,
flops best, two pair.
And if Antonio is planning
on bluffing at any point
it is not going to work.
- [Hanson] Dan's hoping that's
exactly
what Antonio's
got up his sleeve.
He checks.
- I can't believe I
have to quit this game.
- [Somerville] It's juicy,
right?
- [Hellmuth] It's so fun.
- [Grospellier] Look at Antonio.
- [Stapleton] Wait, Phil's
leaving?
- [Hellmuth] I have to go to
New York.
- It's not Antonio
over there, it's AOT.
- [Hellmuth] It's not Antonio,
if it were Antonio
I would just leave,
but it's AOT.
- They drive the same
car and everything,
but it's different guy.
- They drive the same car.
- Literally the same car.
(laughter)
- They live in the same house.
- They do.
They like the same
food, it's crazy.
- They even look precisely,
exactly the same.
- Yep.
- Looks-wise, right?
Except AOT has a little
more red in his cheeks.
Just a little more red.
Look at him.
- [Stapleton] If I were Dan,
I think I would be too scared to
value-bet this,
thinking I could only get called
by better, and not wanting
to get raised,
but Dan's a good poker
player, so I think he bets it.
This is exactly the kind of spot
where you got to try to
get all the value you can.
- [Hanson] We saw this
earlier at this table
when Dan O'Brien
rivered a full house,
made a small bet on the river.
Again, how much is
his curiosity worth?
But unfortunately
for Dan O'Brien
this time around Antonio
really did have nothing
and didn't pay him off.
Well this seems like a good
spot to end for the evening
and Jason Somerville
currently up the most,
up 12K here on Poker
Night in America.
But the real story here is
got to be Antonio Esfandiari
in for 50K, down almost 20,
he's really spreading the love.
Time to call it a day on
Poker Night in America.
Hellmuth had to get out of here,
he's got to meet up with
up George Clooeny and Jay Z
at Wolfgang Puck's for Manny
Pacquiao's birthday party.
- AOT Antonio on Tilt.
- Antonio's on tilt.
Next time he stays on tilt,
he's on a tilt-a-world.
Wait is it tilt-a-world or
tilt-a-whirl?
- I don't think
it really matters.
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- What's that video
game where the rampage,
you have the big
gorilla like and he--
- It's called Rampage.
- It's called Rampage, right?
- Maybe, yeah yeah.
- It's like Antonio right now,
he's a big gorilla trying
to knock down the building.
Right, am I right?
That's Antonio
right now rampaging.
