- From Las Vegas, Nevada
this is Poker Night in America.
(lively jazz music)
Welcome to Poker
Night in America.
That's Joe Stapleton,
I'm Chris Hanson,
and we're going back
to Vegas for more
from our Twitch
celebrity cash game.
- Last time some
people won some money,
some people lost some money,
but the most important
thing is that tonight,
several men will all
promise to kiss each other.
Don't worry though dude bros,
Maria Ho will be joining
the table shortly.
- [Chris] We continue
here in Las Vegas
for the Twitch celebrity
cash game and so far,
Antonio Esfandiari is in
stand for 50K Stapleton.
- [Joe] Just one question Chris.
Who's Bertrand Grospellier?
- [Chris] That's Elky
Grospellier,
he's French.
All right, let's
get to the action.
Blinds are 25 and 50.
Now there's also a $200
ante on the big blind.
There's an optional
$100 straddle,
and also deuce-seven is in play.
Did I miss anything?
- [Joe] Yeah, there's three
straddles happening right now.
We've got a single
straddle, a double straddle,
and a double, double straddle.
That means that Randy
Lew, Jason Somerville
and Antonio Esfandiari
have all put money
into this pot blind.
Wee.
So the original straddler
just has to pay $300 to call.
- [Chris] And that is Randy
Lew in the three seat.
- [Antonio] (humming)
- All in.
- [Dealer] Player is all in.
- [Antonio] All in?
That's pretty strong.
First card is pretty good.
It's not amazing, but it's
got a lot of potential.
- [Joe] No...
- [Chris] Oh, come on.
- Are we allowed to slow roll?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Let me think about it.
(laughs)
That was a Phil Laak laugh.
- [Joe] All right, here
comes a slow roll.
- There's no version
of me folding.
Should I end your misery now,
or should I slow roll you?
- I slow rolled you earlier,
you can do whatever you want.
- All right, let
me think about it.
How much is it?
- [Chris] I think Lew
knows he's getting
slow rolled right now.
- [Joe] Yeah, absolutely,
he's just accepted it.
Like he's going
down on the Titanic.
- If AOT gets this hand,
we're gonna see the exit of AOT,
and the entrance of Antonio.
- Can I ask Elky what to do?
- That's two aces, when he
needs the help of a pro,
that's usually two aces.
- Elky, what do you
think I should do?
- [Chris] One of
the famous moments
in Poker Night in
America history,
was the Shaun Deeb slow roll.
Antonio's trying to rock
it up to number two.
- [Joe] It seems to
be tradition now.
- 60 what?
- $6625.
- It's aces, when he asks the
help of Elky, it was aces.
- I figured out the
math on this one.
(group laughs)
- [Dealer] 6625.
- [Elky] I think you
played a hundred of these.
- I played a hundred?
- [Elky] You played a
hundred of these hand.
- Show one?
- [Dan] You might
be behind this hand.
- Oh, it's two queens.
- [Chris] Yeah
everyone and their cat
knows that it's two queens now.
- [Phil] That's a set or Ace 10.
- That's a bad board for...
- [Randy] He could be
slow rolling too though.
- [Chris] All right, Lew's got
a little something brewin',
he hits a 10 on the flop.
- Or Ace 10, no matter
what you have you win.
- [Joe] Randy's gonna
need to hit a king
or a 10 on the river,
otherwise he will be felted.
- King 10 no good.
- King 10 is no good.
- King 10, I have King 10.
- [Joe] Wow, and
he got soul read.
Never lucky Lew.
- You don't have Ace
10 or pocket 10s there?
- [Randy] No. Damn it.
- Randy Lew...
- [Phil] Never
Lew go 12.8 hands.
- I love Elky, you know Elky
and I have a kissing bet?
- [Phil] Yes I do know.
- Dan O'Brien,
did you know that?
Would you like the same bet?
- Tell me a little
bit more about it.
- [Joe] I'm listening.
- In his culture and my culture,
when you see your friend, you
go and you kiss each other
on the cheek, so if you'd
like, I offer you the same bet.
Every time we come
in the same room,
whoever enters the
room has to come
and give the other guy
a kiss on both cheeks.
I'd love to do that with you.
- Okay.
- [Antonio] You're in?
- Yeah of course.
- [Antonio] Oh my god I
can't believe you accepted.
I was kind of bluffing, I
was kind of bluffing Elky!
I'm a little nervous. (laughing)
- [Joe] You think they had the
same bet back in Doyle's day?
- [Chris] No, there would have
been none of that allowed.
- [Joe] Too many shotguns.
- [Phil] 1K if you miss?
- [Antonio] Yeah Elky
kind of missed one time,
I let him off the hook.
- [Chris] Not nearly
enough Europeans.
- You owe me a dinner.
But the deal is, it's
whoever enters the room
has to initiate the kiss.
- [Elky] But you have to
know the guy's in the room.
- [Antonio] You have to see
him, if you see him then...
- Yeah, of course.
But like let's say you're
walking into the Brasilia room
at the Rio, and I see
you and I'm at the table,
and I'll just say, "hey
Antonio" you have to--
- Then I have to
come over there.
Yeah, correct.
(laughing) I do that
to Elky all the time.
"Hey Elky!" he just
like runs over.
(group laughs)
- [Joe] These guys are
so excited to kiss,
sorry Utah.
- [Chris] Just in
case you're wondering,
poker professionals will put
any prop bet on anything.
- [Joe] It's pretty special.
So we got the 9 6 suited
versus the Ace Jack.
Dan O'Brien's still got the
best hand after the flop.
- The pot has $875,
I'm gonna bet $825.
- It's gonna be, hold on
wait for it, wait for it.
- [Chris] $825,
the bet from Phil,
and O'Brien goes away.
- I'll bet almost the pot.
- Don't go anywhere guys,
when we get back, Mario
Ho joins the table.
That's right, a real live grill.
- Hi.
- Ho!
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Welcome back to Poker
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Let's return to the table.
Maria Ho taking the spot of Phil
Hellmuth who was seated
in that 5 seat earlier.
You can check out Maria Ho on
our sister show The Final Table.
- [Joe] I know I'm Ho'mie
- That's a little pork
chop for the kids at home,
that are learning poker.
- They're taking
notes right now.
- I used pork chop in
my commentary yesterday.
- Nice, that's awesome.
- I said, "as Jason
calls it, a pork chop."
- [Jason] It's a great
phrase for so many things.
- [Maria] And honestly, I
really enjoy pork chops.
- [Jason] Nice, so it works on
multiple levels for you then.
I don't really like pork
chops in real life but...
(laughter)
- [Maria] But in poker you love,
- [Jason] in poker their
delicious and wonderful.
- [Maria] pork is your favorite.
- [Chris] I know people say
you gotta play the 7 deuce
like you play Aces,
would you make it $450 with
Aces in this situation?
- [Joe] Yeah probably.
- [Chris] Okay.
- [Joe] In a cash game, you're
gonna get action regardless,
so most people in a
tournament only raise
like 2x or maybe even 3x,
raising 4 1/2 times in a
cash game, totally fine.
Someone will call you.
- I'm gonna start off
playing good I think.
Just for at least a few hands.
- [Chris] Well
there is one call,
and now there is two calls.
- How's that coffee, Dan?
- So good thank you.
- I brought some cake pops.
- Oh no, I don't need that.
Definitely don't need that.
- [Joe] Two pair for Somerville.
Once again the 7
deuce is in a spot
where it's gonna be
nearly impossible
to bluff someone off their hand.
- Phil, why is it so
hard to make a pair?
- Cause there's so many cards,
and you only get two.
- [Antonio] It's very difficult.
- The other three can
be any of 13 ranks.
- [Joe] He's
cracked it everyone.
Phil Laak has solved poker.
- [Phil] That's why they
added the deuce-seven.
so one extra way to win.
- [Joe] Why does someone
always bring up deuce-seven,
when someone's got deuce 7?
Elky's really going for it.
- [Phil] Dude no, deuce 7 is
thrown in to like Queens up.
- [Antonio] Yeah, 1.2 levels.
- It's like Ace King
or super polarized.
- [Antonio] Yeah, Randy's
on level 12 million.
- [Dan] 12 million,
800 thousand.
- Maria's just here, we haven't
seen what's going on yet.
- Just hanging out so far.
- [Chris] Here comes the river.
- [Joe] Okay, now Jason
just got counterfeited,
so it's possible Elky
can get him to fold now,
but still I'm not sure,
Elky's gonna have to
go for it so hard,
he's gonna have to go five it.
- Oh hey Maria, you're not
allowed to see what hands...
- I'm sorry.
- You're not allowed to get...
- Yeah we all agreed,
no social media.
- I wasn't watching yesterday,
people were just
like Tweeting...
- [Antonio] If someone tells
you hand and you see it,
you gotta tell us.
- [Chris] Here comes the bomb.
How much is gonna be?
- [Joe] $4400 into $6800,
that's a pretty good bet.
- Pretty sure I had the best
hand at some point in this...
(laughter)
The question is about
right now though.
- [Joe] Best hand the whole way,
you dirty basement kid.
- Well, I guess...
I mean, I can beat
the 7 deuce for sure,
that I know.
- [Joe] That's what he's got.
- [Jason] Oh man Elky,
it's so tough, so close.
- [Joe] Nailed it.
- [Chris] There it is,
thank you.
- Jason gets 'em right a lot.
- [Joe] So still
no one's been paid
on the seven-deuce prop bet.
- [Jamie] It was an honor.
(laughs)
- [Phil] We're even you know.
Here we go.
- [Joe] Man, Ace
King is going around
like a virus in a preschool.
- [Dealer] $350.
- [Antonio] Dan O'Brien,
how much you winning today?
(group laughing)
- Sick needle bro.
- That was a bad needle.
Poor Dan O'Brien.
- [Dan] I might not
be able to afford
to go to Burning Man after this.
- [Chris] Action's on Randy Lew.
- You can always come crash
with me in Canada dude.
- Really?
- Yeah of course.
- [Dan] That's nice,
I might have to.
- You're one of the dozen people
that has open invitation,
you can always stay at my abode.
Phil Laak, you want that?
Do you want that trade,
can we trade that mutually?
No, see you don't
wanna do it two ways.
- That's gonna be tough.
Nobody makes the invite
to the Phil Laak home.
- He wants the freeroll,
but he doesn't wanna
give me anything back.
What's the exchange here,
just like friendship exchange?
- I don't even know.
- He doesn't even know
about a friendship?
- I just wanna go
visit you one day.
- You just wanna come visit?
You can, you can come
visit me, Phil, you got it.
- [Joe] It's the armed
security at Phil's gate
that are the real sticklers.
- [Chris] Here's the flop.
(players chatting and laughing)
- [Joe] Top set for Laak.
Gut-shot for Randy Lew.
A bad gut-shot.
- How much do I have
to pay you right now,
to have 10% of your
lifetime earned?
- [Joe] Looks like
Dan's gonna peel.
- I feel like you're
one of those guys
who's just gonna earn, you know?
- [Jason] If I say
yes and you say yes,
then I have to
commit to this right,
so I have to make sure
this is a precise number.
- [Joe] O'Brien picks
up a gut-shot now.
- Cash up front is worth a lot.
- Cash up front is worth
a lot, that's true.
To buy 10% of Jason Somerville
for life, there ya go.
- At the end of every
year you give me...
- I just give you a
check for hundreds
of thousands of
dollars, every year.
- [Joe] Against Phil Laak,
Ace King is sometimes
gonna be the best hand,
it will almost always
have plenty of outs.
- [Jason] Also I'm
selling it to you,
so I gotta give you some
ROI here also right?
- [Joe] Again, just not now.
- [Jason] 10% of my
earnings for life...
That has to be north
of $2 million I'm sure.
- North of $2 million, wow.
- Wow.
That's confidence.
- If I offered you a
million today, cash,
you wouldn't take it?
- No, I wouldn't take
a million for sure.
- Of course not, what
the (bleep) lifetime.
(laughing)
Forever, gonna be forever.
- A million today
is worth a lot more
than a million in 10 years.
- [Elky] In 10 years you
gonna have $10 million,
so who cares?
- [Joe] Dan's called, we
know he's only got four outs.
(group chatting)
- [Chris] Here comes the river.
That is not one of the four
outs he was looking for.
- [Joe] That's not gonna be
an out for anybody usually.
Unless you picked up a
flush draw on the turn.
I don't think Phil is
gonna be too scared
of Dan picking up a flush
draw on the turn though.
- This is O'Brien and Phil
Laak battle, I like it.
- [Joe] As he
eyeballs Dan's stack.
- I've checked.
- Oh it's on Phil Laak he's
doing one of his things I think.
There it is, woohoo
come on Dan O'Brien!
- [Joe] Phil just
puts him all in
he can't even bluff him back.
- [Antonio] Oh you can't call,
that's it it's over, nice hand.
- I think, I don't wanna
fold the nut flush,
no I don't have that.
- [Joe] Dan's got no chips,
more like Dan O'Cryin'.
(jazzy music)
Check this out,
he's gonna Google
where the closest ATM is.
- [Chris] Looking, he's looking.
- Don't go anywhere,
we'll be back
with more Poker
Night in America,
Twitch celebrity cash
game, right after this.
- I don't care, read me, here.
What do I got?
He's always so good,
he knows what I have.
Who cares?
There's no sense doing
a poker face anymore,
he just knows.
- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America.
The Twitch celebrity cash game.
Let's get back to
the button clicking.
(jazzy music)
- [Chris] Only invites get
into this game, Stapes.
- [Joe] Mine musta
got lost in the mail.
Oh, limpy, limpy.
- [Chris] Oh my goodness.
- [Joe] Cooler alert!
- [Phil] You got a text, I know
you got the King of diamonds
Queen of spades or
clubs or something.
- [Chris] Wake up Jaime Staples
it's time to play a hand.
- What'd ya have?
- [Phil] I had ya beat.
- [Joe] Jaime's
image is so nitty,
everyone might just
fold to this three bet.
- What do you have over there?
- [Chris] Maria just sat
down, she doesn't know that.
- [Joe] Also I think Jacks is
a little too strong to fold.
(players chattering)
- [Antonio] So you had a 7?
- I had a 7.
- You bluffed him.
On television, I like that.
It's gonna hurt him forever,
it's gonna haunt him.
- [Joe] He made the
three bet big too.
All right, well
Somerville doesn't fold.
Maria certainly can't now.
Jaime's done a
pretty good job here
of knowing that when
Maria three bets,
she's gonna be pretty strong,
so he's gonna get
away with getting this
four bet called in
two different spots,
well done so far.
Maria got a great price to call,
with Jason calling
in front of her.
Queen-high flop, great
for Jaime Staples.
- [Randy] That's Antonio
bluffing. (laughing)
- [Phil] That's Antonio
bluffing.
- Someone's gotta
bring him back.
- [Joe] It is unlucky
for Jaime in such a way
that Maria and Jason
could get away from this
pretty easily though.
- [Chris] Yeah, there might
not be anymore money here,
at the end of the rainbow.
$2400 the bet from Staples.
- [Joe] And Jason knows
his rep pretty well.
So there's a fold.
- [Antonio] Can I get a food
thing from somebody?
(players chatting)
There's a place called,
Zaytoon, it's actually
pretty close to here.
- [Nolan] That Persian place?
- [Antonio] Yeah.
My man!
So I'd like to order chicken
kabob with the shirazi salad.
- [Chris] Alright, this pot
approaching 10K.
- [Joe] So one more
diamond on the turn.
Both pick up flush draws.
- [Antonio] You can order it
on Bite Squad.
It's like 5 bucks or something
to deliver.
- [Nolan] Anybody else want
Persain food?
- No thanks, I'm going to wait
for All American.
- [Scott] Never had Persian
food.
- [Antonio] Order it, do you
like chicken?
Get a chicken kabob, you'll
love it.
- [Phil] It's good stuff.
- [Scott] I'll try the same
thing he's getting.
Yeah what ever he's getting.
- [Phil] That rice
that's really crispy
because it burns by the pan,
that's really good stuff.
- [Joe] And Jaime's all in.
- [Dan] How much
is our kissing bet?
- Okay.
This is gonna be helped,
because I'm not really sure
how long I could hold it
like this so...
- [Joe] Oh, it's so cruel.
- [Elky] So if one
drop it's a call though?
- [Phil] That
looked like a call.
- Looks like a call to me.
- [Joe] Sure is.
- [Jason] Ace Ace.
- [Phil] Oh, Maria's
got the best hand.
- Do you wanna
run it more than once?
- What?
- What?
- Sure, but I don't
know how I could win,
let's just run it,
there's no way I can win.
- [Antonio] Hey Phil did you
say Maria has the best hand?
- I thought she had a flush.
- I have two outs.
- [Dealer] Once or twice?
- It's up to you.
- Twice.
- Sure, twice.
I have two outs, cause
you have me covered.
- [Joe] So they're gonna
run the river twice,
you gotta win it both times
to scoop the whole pot.
First one goes to Jaime Staples.
- Well that's not gonna do it.
Everyone's all like...
- [Joe] Second one
goes to Jaime Staples,
he gets it all.
- [Chris] It was
well worth the wait
to bring that $19,000
pot home to papa.
- [Joe] I wonder how many times
they would've had to run it
for Maria to win.
- [Chris] So a
rebuy for Maria Ho.
Put $10K in front of her again.
Looks like we got the straddle
in play from Mr. Somerville.
- [Dan] No, don't
worry I got you.
- Just gonna go with general
consensus on that one.
- [Dan] Don't worry.
- [Randy] We'll let you know.
- [Maria] Let me know when I
officially become the worst.
Right now I'm just
in the running.
- [Chris] Now we're
up to the blinds.
- [Maria] Nice hand.
- [Chris] Bunch of chickens.
Laak pumps it up to $300.
Randy Lew in the big
blind, suited Jack 9.
- I was the youngest
yesterday, I still might be.
Uh no, how young are you?
- 24.
- Yeah, when you weren't
here I was the youngest.
- [Jaime] Why are you twenty...
- 28.
- [Jaime] 28?
- [Chris] Yeah
baby, come get some.
$1225.
I know Somerville's
thing is Run It Up,
I'd like to actually do a
show called Run it Down.
- [Joe] It's way more realistic.
- [Chris] It is, I
have a big, huge buy in
and I just slowly bleed it off.
Wouldn't people
wanna watch that?
- [Joe] I think they would.
- [Chris] I can find new and
creative ways to lose money.
- [Joe] Everybody
hates a winner.
- [Chris] Like calling with
draws that don't exist.
(players chatting)
- [Antonio] Just try the reraise
thing it works sometimes.
Here it goes, here it goes, yes!
- [Joe] Phil Laak
does not fold preflop,
but this is not a good
hand to call with.
So he does not call,
he raises again.
Phil Laak's reads
are just amazing,
and he plays with no fear
whatsoever, I love him.
- Yes, come on.
Come on.
Scary flop please!
7, 8, 9 three spades, one time.
- $3325.
- [Chris] So the decision
back to Randy Lew.
- [Joe] Randy's got
position and he's actually
getting an okay price to call.
- All in.
- [Dealer] All in.
- How much more?
- Oh, I love my life.
That is so good,
that's liquid gold.
That's Phil Laak's line by
the way, liquid gold.
- Liquid gold.
(laughs)
- How do you, I don't
know, how do you...
- That's when you
know you're friends,
when you can just
cheer against them.
- He's an enemy, he's a foe.
- He's an enemy. (laughs)
- I have 7, 8, 9, 10, 11...
- [Joe] Phil's in a
bit of a pickle here.
He's got a bad hand.
But he's already got $6k
invested in this pot.
- It's gonna hurt if
you have a deuce 7,
that's for sure.
- [Chris] Back to
back tough decisions
on Poker Night in America.
Maria Ho elected to
call in the last one,
but Phil Laak decides
to fold on this one.
- [Joe] I thought he was
giving his cards to Dan O'Brien
to make a decision.
- I'll show you these cards.
One quarter, $25.
- Well I'm gonna
find out soon enough.
- [Joe] Wow what a nit!
Wouldn't even pay him
25 bucks to see it.
- Where am I gonna come up
with that kind of money?
- 25...
- [Chris] He's gonna
get quarters from
all over the place.
To see that hand.
- [Joe] Randy shows
the flush draw.
Yeah rabbit it!
- [Chris] Run it, run it, yeah!
You can do that,
that's cool, yeah.
- Oh, that's good Dan.
- [Joe] Randy gets there twice.
- A lot of tough
decisions tonight.
- I know, I have a hard
enough time deciding
between window or aisle.
You know what's not a
tough decision though,
coming back, after the break.
- Closed captioning
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Poker Night in America.
Welcome back to Poker
Night in America.
That guy's Joe Stapleton,
I'm Chris Hanson.
These, are great poker players.
We'll push pause for the evening
and Esfandiari is
finally on the plus side
at this game and we'll
lose Jaime Staples,
but next time, we pick
up a Daniel Negreanu.
- [Joe] Ooh, Kid Poker.
- All right, and
for the 15th time,
there is no kissing
bet with you and me.
Not happening.
Get over it.
- Next time hold
onto your potatoes,
and your carrots
and peas because
your favorite poker
vegan, Daniel Negreanu,
joins the table and immediately
clashes with Antonio.
- All in, okay good luck,
(laughs) once or twice?
- Who has the deuce 7?
- Also, Chris Hanson over here
tries to lose $100
one cent at a time.
- Find us on the internet
at PokerNight.com
to see unedited livestreams
and also complete episodes.
And maybe even more Run it Down.
For Joe Stapleton,
I'm Chris Hanson,
we'll see ya next time on
Poker Night in America.
- First card is pretty good.
It's not amazing but it's
got a lot of potential.
(jazzy music)
Are we allowed to slow roll?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Let me think about it.
(laughs)
That was a Phil Laak laugh.
