- From the Rivers Property
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
this is Poker Night in America.
(upbeat jazz music)
Welcome to Poker
Night in America,
where we conclude day two at
Rivers, here in Pittsburgh.
I'm Chris Hanson,
that's Joe Stapleton.
- Coming up on today's
show, we close out
that feature on
the Poker playing
artificial intelligence,
and Tom Schneider
donkey bombs it, light a match.
- Phil are you winning now?
- [Phil] I think it might be.
- [Chris] We continue day
two at Rivers in Pittsburgh,
the two biggest stacks
right next to each other.
Jack Schanbacher
in the three seat,
and Phil Laak in seat four.
- [Joe] I love having two big
stacks like that at the table.
Those are two guys that can
easily double up my short stack.
- [Phil] You remind
me of a guy named--
- [Chris] Blinds are
25 and 50, with an
optional 100 dollar straddle.
- You know who
Marty Hogan is, huh?
- I think I've heard of him.
- [tom] He's like
the only guy in--
- [Joe] Marty Hogan,
the less famous
brother of Hulk Hogan.
- [Chris] Brother of brother.
Cletus Daniel Clarence Wolf,
we're just gonna call
him Cletus, raises
with pocket sevens.
Laak calls.
- [Tom] Wow.
- [Chris] And then Mark
Pegasus Smith raises to $450.
Vierheller, another local
celebrity, makes a call.
- [Phil] Calling, calling,
you guys like it, huh?
- [Tom] Show him how to do it.
- [Phil] You want me
to see if I can just,
there you go.
- [Joe] Calls all around.
- [Phil] I put it in.
I put the money in.
- [Chris] Ring,
ring, ring, ring.
Phones ringing, who is it?
Everyone's calling.
(laughter)
- [Joe] Okay.
- [Chris] Terrible,
terrible joke.
- [Joe] It's pretty bad, but.
- [Chris] Thank you.
- [Joe] Maybe it'll take
away from the fact
that no one could
possibly like this flop.
- [Phil] Good man.
I check.
- [Chris] Smith bets
on the button, $500.
- [Joe] Wolf raising his sevens,
and it looks like
he could potentially get
a better hand to fold.
Betting the flop,
I want you to stop,
'cause I'm bluffing
like the wolf.
- [Chris] Smith calls.
- [Joe] Well, the board
gets worse for both hands,
but better if you wanna bluff.
- [Dan] All in.
- [Dealer] All in.
- [Chris] $2875 is enough
to put Smith all in.
He will fold.
- [Tom] Here's the
seven of clubs.
- [Schanbacher] Gettin'
spunky over there.
- [Dan] I'm gettin' spunky,
the Clarence is comin' out.
I just can't hid
Clarence for too long.
- [Joe] Sometimes my Clarence
comes to the surface.
I just take some antibiotic.
- [Chris] You won't like
me when I'm Clarence.
- [Phil] I actually
think there's probably
not even worth asking monkeys.
I say, keep the
monkeys in the jungle,
and don't even ask them,
'cause I'm pretty sure there's,
just leave 'em alone.
- [Tom] They wouldn't
even be interested.
- [Dan] I'm down, at
least, a couple thousand
just from surrendering--
- [Schanbacher] You
don't have to ex,
it's your option,
buddy, you don't--
- [Chris] $125 from Phil Laak.
Tom Schneider calls.
- [Dan] I mean, it's
better for the game--
- [Chris] Vierheller
is along for the ride.
So is Ioffe.
- [Man] Four players.
Times are tough, Danny.
- [Dan] Times are tough, man.
- [Jack] You got
that 15k over there now?
- [Joe] Jack high flop.
Ioffe and Schneider
both flop trips.
I mean, how?
You play 10-4 suited
and flop trips.
How?
- [Chris] It's the jacket.
It's just running good
with fashion and in poker.
- [Dealer] $750.
- [Joe] Just don't forget
Tom, when you only have
one card left you
gotta yell Uno.
And for Ioffe's sake, I
hope he's not attempting
a check race.
- [Chris] Nope, just a call.
- [Dan] Huh?
(mumbles)
- I don't know, you're smirkin'.
- [Joe] So, Schneider's
kicker does play.
- [Dan] It really is
catchin' on, though.
You do a good job of that.
- [Dealer] $1600.
- [Dan] Against what
some people said.
They said that I
shouldn't have it on here.
But, mostly, you
got to, you know.
Yeah, right?
- [Phil] See, on the top, you
must let the antennae breathe,
you know.
It's like multiple--
- [Joe] Ioffe got cold decked
here, but he lost the minimum.
Takes some discipline
to not spaz out there,
and just put a bunch
of chips in with trips.
- [Phil] Oh, it's just
hour one, basic control.
- Ugh, like most Mac
products, the Ioffe didn't
last as much as you
thought it would.
- Naw, but we are
gonna try to get him
an appointment at
the Genius Bar.
Back after this.
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- [Chris] Thanks for coming
back to Rivers in Pittsburgh.
It's Poker Night in America.
I'm Chris Hanson,
he is Joe Stapleton.
- [Joe] Hello, my babies.
- [Chris] Phil Laak with
over $50,000 in chips
on the table.
Makes it $400 with 9-10 suited.
- [Tom] Gamble with
my friend, Mr. Laak.
- [Chris] The Schneids, Tom
Schneider calls with Ace/King.
I call him Schneids,
we're tight.
- [Joe] How did you
come up with that?
- [Chris] Well, his
mother's maiden name
was actually Schneidenhammer.
- [Tom] Ruh-roh.
- [Chris] Never mind.
- [Tom] How much more ya got?
I'm all in.
- [Dealer] Got an all in.
- [Tom] Ruh-roh.
- [Joe] Ruh-roh is right.
Aces verses Ace/King is
one of the worst spots
you can be in.
It's like being
stuck in a conversation
with Phil Hellmuth, you
just don't wanna do it.
- [Tom] It doesn't
look good for me.
- [Chris] Paging
Dr. Understatement.
Tom Schneider is dealing with
a Schneidenhammer right now.
(hosts laugh)
Schneider's gonna double
up the local player,
Mike Vierheller.
- [Joe] Not too much
damage to Tom's stack.
- [Phil] That's one of
those times where you're
okay that you don't
wake up with a big hand.
(players laugh)
- [Tom] All right, sweetie,
well, we're playin'.
All right, bye.
- I'm under strict orders
to win that money back
that I just lost, so,
(Mike laughs)
I'm just lettin' ya know.
That was the real mother ship.
- [Joe] I think there's
probably sexier names
for your wife.
- [Phil] I'm gonna be the
first to
make a betting or checking
decision on the flop.
- [Chris] How good is Phil
Laak running right now?
- [Joe] He's the absolute best.
- [Tom] $800?
- [Joe] The greatest
thing about Phil Laak is
that he will
completely felt you,
which by the way, is
a word he invented,
and he will make you
have a really good time
while he does it.
He's an absolute genius.
- [Chris] This is a
pretty interesting spot.
Laak flopped two pairs,
Schneider's up and down.
- [Joe] Nobody's too
likely to want to fold.
Queens make a good
fold, there, though.
- [Schneider] Turns
out we're playing a lot
of pots together, Phil.
- [Phil] Yup.
- [Joe] That'll happen when
it's the two biggest stacks
at the table, as Schneider
gets there on the turn.
- [Chris] I guess his
mother ship was right.
He's gotta win that money
back that he's just lost.
- [Joe] Well, there's
still one card to come.
Phil's not drawing dead.
Looks like Tom may be
thinking about raising.
- [Phil] I always wondered
if when I'm silent
in big hands if
that's a tell or not.
- [Jack] It is.
- [Phil] It's a tell?
Is it fear or strength?
- [Jack] I can't
give you that info,
I'm just lettin' you know--
- [Phil] Tell me later.
- [Jack] Yeah.
- [Tom] $8,000.
- [Phil] Mmm.
Can you pull in three?
How much more do you
have, like 4?
- [Joe] Phil's no dummy right?
And in the few hands that
I've watched Tom Schneider,
I've seen him only
tank call or tank raise
when he's got a
really strong hand.
Now, even knowing that,
I'm not sure that Phil
can fold.
- [Phil] A little
over $7,400-500-600.
$7,000 left.
- [Joe] You don't see
Phil Laak make a lot
of big lay downs when
there's still cards to come.
Everything about Tom
here reeks of strength,
and poor fashion sense.
- [Phil] Ah, that's interesting.
Is that a blank or not,
that's the question.
I'm just so afraid that he
has ace five of diamonds,
ace, king, queen of diamonds,
king, ten of diamonds,
king six I'm afraid of, too.
- [Joe] Good fold, Phil Laak.
- [Phil] King, six beat?
Can you beat king, six?
You think he
mighta had it, maybe?
- [Jack] What's that?
- [Phil] Do you think he
had better than a set?
Do you think he had a straight?
- [Joe] Phil, if it makes
you feel any better, I agree.
I think he had a straight, too.
- [Chris] I don't know,
I think he had king, six.
No, wait.
- [Joe] Either way, you're beat.
- [Tom] I've seen it before.
You have?
- [Schanbacher] The
open-ended straight flush draw.
- [Dealer] It's rare.
- [Tom] Very rare.
- [Dealer] Very rare.
- [Mike] We had
that last night in Omaha.
- [Joe] This guy was
playing in Omaha last night
and now he's in Pittsburgh?
- [Chris] World traveler.
- [Mike] I did not,
unfortunately.
- [Jack] You had middle?
- [Mike] I had top two.
That was the really
bad place to be.
- [Chris] I once had
top two in Omaha,
that was before I was married.
- [Joe] Wow.
- [Chris] What?
- [Joe] I hope she doesn't
watch this show or you may end
up being divorced.
Phil with a very
dangerous top pair.
- [Dealer] $625.
(Tom blows nose)
- [Chris] Schneider?
(Tom blows nose)
- [Joe] Just don't
look at it afterward.
Oh, he looked.
- [Chris] It is
cold and flu season.
- [Joe] Oh, he looked again.
Three looks!
- [Chris] Clean up on
aisle Schneider, please.
(Joe laughs)
- [Joe] Laak's bet,
gets two callers.
Vierheller calling with a double
gutter, doesn't get there.
- [Dealer] Check.
Check.
- [Joe] Checks around
to the last aggressor.
Checks around.
Somebody got there, then,
and it's not Phil
Laak and his two pair.
- [Chris] Ioffe has
mentally checked out
of this hand about two
streets ago, it seems like.
- [Joe] He's like no way
queens are good, just come on.
- [Chris] $3,375, the
bet from Phil Laak.
- [Joe] What do you do
here if you're Vierheller?
Raise, and maybe get
two folds, or call
and maybe get a call behind you?
Nine seven, not the
nuts, by the way.
- [Chris] Yeah.
You do have to be
mindful of that.
You can just call here
and win a $10K pot.
That's exactly what
Vierheller does.
- [Mike] Straight?
- [Phil] You have a straight?
Oh, you're good.
- [Chris] He started
with $1,000 buy in,
to a satellite here at Rivers.
Turned that into a $10,000
win, and is now stacking
even more chips
in the cash game.
- [Joe] Way to spin it up.
- [Phil] I shoulda
bet that on the turn,
that would've been the play.
- Tom Schneider, come on, dude.
At least step away from
the table next time
you gotta blow your nose.
- Ew, no.
More nose blowing and money
blowing when we come back.
- You know, speaking of--
(Chris drowns out Joe)
- No.
No.
- Show everybody.
You threw me tissues,
told me to cry,
called me a liar.
- I thought you had allergies.
- Can you finish all
your insults at once?
Or do I have to wait?
- I got plenty of 'em.
- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America.
Have you ever wondered how
far you can go on a tangent?
Well, take that
distance, quadruple it,
and then aim it
into outer space,
because Phil Laak is
about to take us all
on a little word journey.
- [Tom] Phil, did
you go to college?
- [Phil] I graduated from Verona
Elementary in fifth grade.
- [Tom] Verona
Elementary, in Pittsburgh?
- [Phil] In New Jersey, near--
- [Tom] Is that the highest?
- Basically, in fifth grade.
And then I went and I
saw a cartoon with a guy
with a stick, and he
wrapped up some stuff
in a knapsack, you know,
like a little cloth.
- [Tom] A hobo?
- [Phil] A hobo, yeah.
And then I went out, that
was the first time I found
a pair of flip-flops,
'cause I saw in the hobo
had some kind of woven,
it wasn't like sneakers.
- [Tom] Yeah.
- And then I just went
from railroad station
to railroad station,
driftin' around.
Met other hobos, learned
the way of the hobo way,
you know.
- [Tom] You know, it's strange,
I asked you if you went
to college.
- [Mike] And you got all that.
- [Tom] And this is
the answer I got, yeah.
That's a great answer.
- [Mike] He got the
Frosty the Snowman--
- [Tom] What did you
order for breakfast today?
Well, when I was three--
- [Joe] I'm not sure if any
of that is true including
that Phil's ever
even seen a cartoon.
- [Chris] Oh, Phil Laak
is a one of a kind.
- [Tom] The hobo way.
- [Mike] The hobo way.
- [Tom] There used to be a
restaurant called Hobo Joe's,
I loved it.
- [Joe] Ironically, they had
a strict no hobo policy there.
- [Chris] You'd think they'd
have been a little bit
more forgiving.
- [Joe] Right?
- [Tom] I like
that, the hobo way.
- [Phil] I like the Pork
Store in San Francisco
on Haight Street.
That place has the
best sausage, egg,
the Piggy Special's
what they call it.
I love it, oh.
- [Joe] You know
how Phil got there?
He smelled the meat and
floated on the odor fumes,
just like from another
cartoon he saw.
- [Phil] He reads poetry
to his eggs, for example.
I mean, I'm not sure if he does.
I doubt he does, but the
farmers probably did.
The farmers love those
eggs, 'cause this food is,
you know, clean and
all this high level.
- [Chris] It's important to
have clean food in this world.
I think that's one thing
we could all agree on.
- [Phil] For all I know, the
Pork Store has excellent--
- [Chris] Schanbacher
with a pair of nines.
Ioffe with nothing.
- [Phil] I just know I
love their food, oh boy.
- [Joe] Back to your
clean food statement,
we're gonna make an exception
for the five-second rule,
though, right?
- [Chris] Well, of course, yeah.
- [Joe] Okay.
- [Chris] I mean, I'm not
wasteful, I just want it
to be clean.
- [Joe] Nothing can get dirty
in less than five seconds?
- [Chris] Ioffe with his
nothing turns it into a winner.
- [Tom] I don't know, you
got me thinking, Phil.
I don't know.
- [Joe] Don't make him think.
- [Chris] Maybe he's thinkin'
about becoming a hobo
is what he's talking about.
I always wondered how the
hobos with their disheveled
shoes and carrying
that bag on a stick
could actually leap onto
a box car on a train.
Think about it.
- [Joe] Some of them
are deceptively spry.
- [Chris] Like ninjas.
Like bearded, cigar
smoking, hobo ninjas.
- [Joe] Uh-oh, this is
shaping up to get real dirty.
Much like the food
Hanson won't eat.
- [Chris] Schanbacher
with ace, king.
Here comes a raise from
Jack Schanbacher to $1,250.
- [Joe] All right, well,
we're gonna see a flop.
I just like open
folding queens here.
Just muck 'em.
- [Chris] Go ahead,
bet, I'm done.
Well, that's not what
Smith is gonna do.
He's gonna get deeper
and deeper into this
I can't win hole.
- [Joe] He does pick up a
gut shot.
- [Chris] Well, aren't
you tryin' to be positive?
- [Joe] So, you're
allowed to call here,
and you're allowed to
fold, but one thing
you're not allowed to
do is seem confused
that you've been put all in.
Calls all in, he is behind.
- [Mark] Give me a ten.
- [Chris] He's calling for
the Joe Stapleton miracle
on the river, he needs that
10 to make the gut shot.
That's a three, not close.
- [Joe] That's how the Joe
Stapleton miracle works,
actually.
You can ask for it,
but it doesn't come.
- [Chris] Does it ever come?
- [Joe] No.
- [Chris] No.
- [Joe] Unless you
count this job.
Thanks, CBS Sports, ha.
- [Chris] All right,
day two, we done.
The biggest winner of
the day Tom Schneider.
He's used to doing that
on Poker Night in America.
He's up over $13,000.
- Man, that Jack Schanbacher,
he'll raise any two.
'Cept for his own children.
Your wife had a baby yesterday.
- After the break,
we're gonna conclude the
Claudico Poker AI Series.
Resistance is futile.
- Show everybody, you threw me
tissues, told me to cry,
called me a liar.
- I thought you had allergies.
- Can you finish all your
insults at once
or do I have to wait?
- I got plenty of them.
- Really? You called me a liar,
whiner, threw me tissues,
you're a class act.
Told me to shut up.
If I quit this show early at
least we'll know, cause of you.
- Ah don't do that man.
- Why not?
Closed captioning is brought
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- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America
at Rivers in Pittsburgh.
- You know, Chris,
I just had to light
an entire page of
Rocky jokes on fire
because I just realized that
Rocky takes place in Philly,
we're in Pittsburgh, and
apparently, those two things
aren't the same?
- No, Pittsburgh here, Philly
here, not the same thing.
The American education
system really has failed you,
Mr. Stapleton.
Let's not wait any longer.
It's time for part three
of our series on Claudico,
poker's newest and
most challenging AI.
- And more importantly,
the four poker players
who are tryin' to pull its plug.
(electronic music)
- [Host] I'd like to hand
this over to the number one,
no limit, heads up Texas
Hold 'Em player in the world,
Doug Polk.
(audience claps)
- When I first heard
about this challenge,
I thought this was great.
I thought this was a way to
expand my knowledge of the game.
To test myself in a
challenge-type format,
and to really try to learn the
true theoretical strategies
that should be played.
So, I have no idea
what to expect.
What I will say is that the
humans are gonna give our A game
and we're gonna see if we
can take down this computer.
(people chat)
(applause)
- The first day was a
crushing day for Claudico.
The humans beat us by a lot.
It was like a complete
human onslaught,
and it looked like
we would lose huge.
The next defining
moment was second day,
when we actually were able
to curb that onslaught,
and I knew that this
was gonna be close.
- When we look at win
rate in Heads Up No Limit,
you think about things in
the big blinds that you won.
And with a win rate, you
refer to it as your big blinds
per 100 hands.
So, the win rate that
we had over Claudico
in this challenge was 9.1.
9.1 signifies a fairly
substantial edge,
but not really a domination.
- And when we did the
analysis of, you know,
is this result
statistically significant,
we found that the 95
percent confidence interval,
which is typically
used to determine
statistical significance,
required a win rate
of 10.5 big blinds per 100.
So, it was close to
statistical significance,
but not quite there.
- We've learned a lot about
what are the strengths
and weaknesses of Claudico,
and from those we can infer
how to improve the
algorithms for our incomplete
information game
solving, in general,
and apply it to a
host of applications,
like negotiation, auctions.
And as we have time
now, after the event,
we'll write algorithms
that will pour through
the 80,000 hands, and
we'll learn a lot more.
- I mean, I think, watch
out, the robot apocalypse
is coming, but it's
not quite here, yet.
- Well, there you have it.
Humans rule.
Humanity in yo'
face electronics.
- Claudico version two,
it's gonna be released
very soon, and you know
there's gonna be a sequel.
- Next episode, we move
from one nerd topic
to another.
Hilarious prop jokes.
- Come on, take a bite.
- Yep, we're headed
to Choctaw
for the very first time.
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We'll see you next time
on Poker Night in America.
- In Oklahoma.
- I graduated from
Verona Elementary,
basically in fifth
grade, and then I went
and I saw a cartoon
with a guy with a stick,
and then I just went
from railroad station
to railroad station
driftin' around,
met other hobos, learned
the way of the hobo way.
