From Turning Stone Resort in
upstate New York, this is Poker
Night in America.
[MUSIC]
>> Welcome to Poker Night in
America.
I'm your host Chris Hanson.
We've seen some amazing poker
being played by some amazing
players, here at the amazing
Turning Stone Resort, in Verona,
New York.
And you can pretty much guess
how the rest of the action's
gonna go.
That's right, amazing.
Let's set.
[LAUGH]
I couldn't.
I can't, couldn't even finish
it.
Well as day one continues here,
Jesse Sylvia currently has
31,000 in front of him.
A new player sitting down at the
table, Dan Weinman, is buying in
for
the maximum for the table which
is 20,000.
>> I don't think that's gonna.
>> Phil's up here, the rest of
the world.
Down here.
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>> I think David had a real hand
in that last one where you made
in 8 or 9, 10, whatever you did.
A bunch of money.
>> Everyone's folding around
to Jesse Sylvia in the one seat,
he's got pocket eights.
Sylvia was the runner up at the
World Series of Poker to Greg
Merson.
That runner up finish netted him
over $5 million.
So, second place wasn't too bad.
This is Cherish Andrews on the
button and she is raising with
ace, king.
Andrews honed her poker skills
right here at Turning Stone
before going pro.
>> If I wanna read you perfectly
I might as well start making
some calls, you know?
[LAUGH]
>> It's hard though.
Out of position.
>> It's not that hard.
>> I know, but out of position
is, I just had position.
I couldn't help myself.
It was one of those.
>> Because I also get the free
C-bet, that's the, when I hit
the king or jack.
Or a straight draw I get to just
move in on you after, after you
bet.
>> Yeah.
>> Sylvia calls.
>> If I actually hit it I
check, raise, all in.
I mean, you know.
I pick up the 3k bluff, that's
the point.
>> Yeah.
>> So, you're really getting
like, five to one, or whatever
it is.
>> Yes.
Yes.
>> Sylvia's probably pretty
confident, but it looks like
he's checking.
Continuation from Cherish.
800 is the bet.
Call from Sylvia.
>> Do we do a deal tip yet?
Is this the hand?
>> Another check from Sylvia.
>> Remember Elaine busted me in
the hand and then made me pay
the 50 afterwards.
>> You're suppose to pay.
>> I was suppose to pay the
minute it happened.
>> Could have paid it, it
depends on, it's on you when you
want to pay it.
>> Andrew's now at the flush
draw and
a straight draw, thanks to that
five of diamonds on the turn.
>> 1,300 is the bet with those
draws.
Plus her Ace and King are both
live.
So, not a horrible situation
here for
Cherish Andrews and Jesse Sylvia
will fold.
And Cherish starts the road back
after last time getting stacked
by Phil Helmuth.
>> I invented something very
important to the poker world.
>> Phil, I can't.
I love it.
>> Go ahead Phil.
>> My middle name.
>> What is it?
>> Fantasyland.
>> You invented Fantasyland?
>> He invented Fantasyland.
>> That's why I have all this
mo- nah.
[LAUGH]
>> Did you help invent Pineapple
Fantasyland too?
>> No.
>> No, that was, that was Bryce.
>> That was Bryce was, yeah.
>> That's so cool.
>> A few LA home game guys.
>> Now Shaun feels it's
necessary, necessary to lose all
his money to me.
>> I liter, I said, if he ever
needs any favor down the road.
For the money that I made from
Fantasyland.
>> What made you decide
to do that?
>> It was really boring without
it.
>> Well why, why queens?
>> Why?
>> Or better.
>> That's a good question.
That was just like the first
thing that came to mind.
>> Just randomly?
>> It was the perfect sweet
spot.
>> It was the perfect, yeah it
was.
>> It made the kings so
difficult.
>> Cuz there's three tables,
aces, kings, queens for the
three hands.
And then jacks like, you know,
so queens is late.
>> So the viewers at home we're
talking about open-faced Chinese
you know,
which is a huge trend in our
game.
And everybody's playing the
pineapple version which I think.
Makes your version even better.
>> Absolutely.
>> Everybody's playing these
pineapple apps.
Pineapple.
>> My name?
>> Open face Chinese apps.
They're wonderful.
>> Thank you for inventing it,
Dan.
>> You're welcome, Phil.
>> Phil lost a lot of money, to
me, thanks to that.
>> I've lost a lot of money to
you, but I've won a lot of
money,
lifetime, in that game.
But I can't beat most people at
it, to be honest.
>> So how, how, how does it work
the queen, queens?
>> You've never played open
before?
>> No.
>> Oh, man.
>> So, have you played,
pai gow poker in the casino?
>> Yeah.
>> Similar to pai gow, with an
extra row of hands.
So instead of having 5 and 2,
you have 5-5-3.
And if you can ever make queens
up top, the next hand you get
all of your cards at once.
>> Well if Dan Weinman has
created Fantasyland, when I was
child I created a fantasy play
friend, whos name was Bill.
But that's probably a story for
another time.
Let's get back to the poker.
>> Nice.
>> Boeree bets $800.
>> We're in the money.
>> Call from Laak's top pair.
Fold from Sylvia.
So, now Laak and Boeree will see
the turn, it's a queen.
And now Boeree's got two pair.
>> Might of had eights.
>> And Laak is open ended.
>> Guess your exact hole cards?
>> Pretty close.
>> No, you, you got it.
>> I guessed your exact hole
cards, I love this game.
>> I a, I made a tight fold, but
I figured that was like, one of
your only bluffs.
You have a lot of equity.
>> 1,900 is the bet from Boeree.
Laak thinks about it for about a
second and a half and then
calls.
>> So I just like hate almost
every river card.
>> And the river gives Laak the
straight.
>> 4,450.
>> Nice hand.
>> And very exact, 4,450 is the
bet.
>> All right, I fold.
>> Well Boeree is gonna fold and
$11,000 pot is going to Phil
Laak.
>> Liv has been making all the
right folds,
but now let's find out if she
can make the right call, when we
come back.
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Let's get back to the cash game.
>> Wrong again, Shaun, it was a
queen.
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>> I fold.
>> Just letting the RFID know.
>> Phil Laak can do it.
I mean I'm telling you like,
just flops whatever.
>> Deeb makes it 150.
David Patent on the button,
will call with suited ace queen.
And Hellmuth will get involved
with the suited king queen.
It's a king-high flop with a
couple of clubs.
>> Deeb's got the draw and he's
betting, it's $275.
>> $800.
Patent calls.
Phil quickly raises.
A call from Deeb.
>> I think I want the deuce of
diamonds.
Does that exist?
And the turn is an ace.
That gives both Deeb and Patent
top pair now.
Patent's got the gut shot
straight draw, as does Phil
Hellmuth.
And Deeb's got the nut flush
draw.
And Hellmuth is the one who is
betting, it's 1200.
Deeb calls.
And David Patent's gotta be
thinking, okay what do these two
guys have?
And as of right now he thinks
his Ace Queen is worth the call.
And the river is the queen of
clubs.
And that gives Shaun Deeb the
nut flush.
And things could get
interesting here
because Hellmuth now has two
pair.
David Patent now has two pair.
All in from Deeb.
And there are so many things
that have both Patent and Phil
Hellmuth's two pair beat.
But they both lay down and a
monster pot going to Shaun Deeb.
>> I have the nuts.
>> I have the nuts.
Shaun Deeb goes back to doing
what he does best.
That's stacking chips.
Am I the only one who's
wondering if we're gonna get a
Phil Helmuth blow up
here tonight on Poker Night in
America?
>> I know.
>> I didn't think so.
>> I'm down 12 in the poker
game now.
>> I feel like it's much hard
for her to win 12 back in this
game then 35 in the Maryland
game.
[LAUGH]
>> I don't know why.
>> I know what you're saying.
>> Cuz Jesse shut it down
and ah,
and Phil Laak got a little too
close to even, he's not.
>> I'm stuck four grand now, so
it feel's like I can take a
little brake.
>> If Phil gets seven or eight
thousand you're gonna have some
opportunity Shaun.
He's gonna start making it
1500.
>> Then I'll be begging to play
any of you heads-up downstairs
later.
>> You got it.
>> And that will happen, and
I'll say yeah, and then.
>> How big we playing?
>> The same, same size.
>> No, let's play bigger.
>> We get a couple of guys,
though, will for sure.
Ok maybe we do heads up.
But, I don't know if we're
playing bigger.
This is already big.
>> Dan.
>> Yes.
>> They got an open face game
going on over there.
>> Oh.
>> Another big deuce, they said.
>> They might, they might make a
must-move at
the coffee table next to it or
something.
>> Well, there's a poker table,
and then, there's a side table
somewhere around it.
There's probably gonna be some
Chinese being played.
That's a pretty sure bet.
>> Orson's in there.
>> I know.
>> So you play, like a lot?
>> I play more than he does.
For sure.
>> Really?
>> Yeah.
>> How'd you get into poker?
>> Ah, Older brothers.
>> Older brothers?
>> Yep.
>> Is your boyfriend afraid of
your older brothers?
>> I don't think so.
They like him.
[LAUGH]
>> I don't think he's afraid of
them.
>> Let's ask him.
[LAUGH]
>> What's his name?
>> Orson.
>> Orson, are you afraid of her
older brothers?
>> Of what?
>> Of her older brothers.
>> Maybe a little bit.
[LAUGH]
>> He admitted it.
>> A little bit.
>> I'm more affriad of Gavin
right now.
>> Deeb's betting 1300 on the
river.
[LAUGH]
>> And Boeree makes the call and
catches Shaun Deeb with his hand
in the cookie jar.
>> Huh?
>> Fives.
>> You win.
>> A suprise from Liv Boeree
that she does win.
>> Well, it was, it was
interesting, because
it was a bit dynamic before hand
where I had just bluffed him the
hand before.
And I know that Shaun, I mean in
general, obviously, as do most
poker players,
they just hate to lose.
But, he really hates to lose.
Or be, not so much, be out
played.
And, I knew that he would just.
There's a higher chance that
he'll be gunning for me the next
time we played,
and then hold his, there he is.
>> We've got more poker after
this, plus a little while later,
it's Poker Night at
the movies, with Richard Roeper,
Jennifer Tilly, and Phil Laak.
>> Closed captioning is brought
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>> Welcome back to Poker Night
in America, let's return to the
high stakes poker.
>> I never do this stuff I don't
know why I volunteered to.
>> You volunteered.
>> I suggested it cuz I just
wanted to be sick one time
tonight.
I felt like maybe this is the
card.
>> That was the biggest game
we played.
[LAUGH]
>> This is by far the biggest
game, maybe I have a hand this
time.
>> Wake up with Jacks get it
all in.
>> Well, Liv Boeree got this
started with a $100 straddle.
And, it has now turned into a
series of blind raises.
Maybe, coincidentally,
everyone's also got a cocktail
in their hand.
>> $1,575?
$1,575 that's like a kayak, a
really nice one.
[LAUGH]
>> Get the midsized ones for
like, 11, 12 hundred.
It's true.
>> As we get toward the end of
the night,
players feeling like they wanna
do it a little bit more
gambling.
>> Here it comes, 21 hundred.
Beast!
>> We made it like a tournament
>> 9, 3 of clubs.
He suited at least, at least he
suited you know.
>> Boeree folds.
Weiman folds.
>> Why do I have a bad feeling, 
Jesse, somehow is going to lose
a big pot to Phil or Shaun.
[LAUGH]
>> Laak finds pocket 4's
from his blind raise.
He calls.
And there's no way Shaun Deeb is
going anywhere.
With ace eight of diamonds.
Wouldn't surprise me in the
least if he raised right here.
>> All in.
>> And there we go, he's all in.
>> How much is it?
>> 16 or 17.
>> Lot of nice kayaks in the
middle.
And Jesse Sylvia's thinking it
over with king, queen.
He folds.
>> Want me to look at your hand
and tell you what to do?
>> Yeah.
>> That's a very good starting
hand.
[LAUGH]
>> Is it a race?
>> Can I, can I buy that hand
from you right now?
[LAUGH]
>> What is it?
>> Pocket fours.
>> You're giving Shaun Deeb way
too much credit here Phil Laak.
>> They're ending this is 20
minutes.
>> Don't worry Phil is
legitimately.
>> I call.
>> Good call.
>> He called? 
>> I have unders.
>> It's only ten dimes but
still.
>> Whoa.
>> And a four on the flop for
Laak.
>> No nine, no diamond.
>> Do you have any cash on you?
>> Oh my God, I can't believe I
made that call and it worked.
Jesus.
What'd you have?
King, Jack?
>> King, Queen.
>> Lose to everyone.
>> I just take all this right?
>> Yeah, it's all yours.
>> Jesus, Lord.
Wow.
>> Deeb buying back in for
another 20k.
It's almost the end of the
night, he doesn't want to quit
now.
>> I think that's really cool.
>> He's gotta get that money
back.
>> People asked to work it out
basically.
>> By the way, my wife is making
fun of me because of you making
fun of my geography knowledge.
[LAUGH]
>> Andrews raises.
>> There's a there's a tip,
there's an organization in San
Francisco called
Tipping Point, and they and so
they actually raise like 15
million a year and
they give it to the best
charities in the bay area.
>> Okay.
>> It's all, it's pretty,
pretty cool.
A little bit along the lines of
your concept except you're going
globally.
>> Right, well that's the thing
with,
I mean if you look at, yeah you
can look at it over a short, a
small, a small area,
but the, the point is you're
gonna look globally, because if
you eat, if you
assume that each life is worth
the same, a life in Africa, or a
life in Singapore,
or a life in where ever, Alaska,
is there are all worth the same,
then well, and we have only a
finite amount of funds to spend.
Then you have to put
the money where you're gonna
get, you're gonna save the most
lives.
And it, so it just often happens
it's gonna be in those Third
World countries
because everything's cheaper.
But that's rational.
And a lot of people go, but I,
you know, I, I see what's
happening on my doorstep.
I wanna keep my money here.
It's like, okay but, so you're
saying that these lives are
basically more important
than these other lives.
You've just gotta be rational in
this,
you know, in, in a system where
there's only finite amount,
amount of funds.
So yeah. It's, it's teaching
you.
Teaching you to like detach
emotions from when you're trying
to do good.
>> I've raised MC, I have MC
charity tournaments that I've
raised over 30 million
dollars now for charities.
>> Wow.
>> Its taken like ten years but.
>> That's awesome.
>> 12 years but.
>> It was a weird fold but
I had to.
>> You wanted to lock up the win
I understand Jesse Jr.
>> So three players to the flap
with 2100 in the middle.
>> 13.
>> Phil we need, Phil we need
Phil, we need Phil Laak' cause
he's so good.
>> For the game, not said in
parenthesis.
[LAUGH]
>> Smile, smile, wink wink.
>> In all, in all variations
you're good, Phil, for the game.
>> No, but that charity is super
rocking, and
I've watched some of the links
of some of the different.
I love how, how much value the
dollar gets there.
>> It's insaine.
>> Super value.
>> Yeah.
It's, it's pretty-
>> Super value, it's super
value.
>> Long arc.
>> Nice job, Liv.
What's your website, reg.com?
>> Reg, reg-charity.org.
>> Pulling away from the
discussion back to the game.
>> Patent bets 2,600.
Back to Andrews.
And Andrews will not continue in
the hand.
And so it's a win for David
Patent.
So day one is in the books here
at Turning Stone Resorts.
Big winner, Jesse Sylvia,
$25,000 on the good.
Phil Laak a nice day too with
$9,400 and Shaun Deeb, no
surprising,
is usually either one of the
biggest winners or
one of the biggest losers when
he's playing cash games.
After this we return for Poker
Night at the Movies, where our
panel of experts.
Tackle a scene from the 2001
Hollywood remake, Ocean's 11.
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Welcome back to Poker Night In
America for tonight's poker
movie review it's 2001 remake of
OCEAN'S ELEVEN starring George
Clooney and Brad Pitt.
In the scene we see tonight
Pitt is giving a master class
in high stakes
poker to a group of young
Hollywood celebrities.
When Clooney shows them what
it's really like to play against
a master of the game.
Our panel of experts weighs in
on how close Hollywood gets this
scene to reality.
It's Poker Night at the Movies.
[MUSIC]
[LAUGH]
>> I just wanna tear into this
so badly.
First, yellow chips in a poker
table.
Maybe in a tournament, okay.
Oh the, I mean every scene has
the I call, oh wait and
hold on one second, I raise as
well.
And also, all these guys
drinking water.
Yes, I can believe that in some
scenarios.
But not in this one where they
have lap dance girls in a cage
behind them.
In every game I've played in a
home game where they try and
generate that environment of
yeah, we have.
Girls for massages and all that
stuff.
Half or more of the people have
drinks because the girls make
their $25 dollar per drink tip
thing by bringing you the booze,
there's no water round thing,
and all the, I don't know.
I'm going to skip, th, this is
just.
>> Uh oh.
>> I'm going to go with like
queen-nine, off suit.
I'm just trying to get some
>> Is it going to the mock?
I mean pretty much.
>> No you're going to raise, and
try and get everyone to fold
and C-bet,
you can lose some money on this
hand no problem.
>> You're going to call a limp
with it.
Call a limp with it.
>> Because the problem is you're
going to hit the queen.
>> Hoping to get, hoping to get
to the flop.
>> I'm just going to call this a
queen, nine.
>> Okay, I disagree with Phil
because basically it, I've been
there.
It's a scene about a guy who's a
poker player, or you know a
hustler or whatever.
He's trying to teach a bunch of
idiot actors how to play.
And they're not really
interested.
They're all about posing and
being, and like you know.
So, they're, the fact that it's
plastic chips,
or I don't know what those chips
are made out of.
Paper or whatever.
The only part I didn't like is
that George Clooney is supposed
to be savvy.
Did actually say that, see, that
phrase that drives us bananas.
I see your bet and I raise you,
and that's the thing everybody
thinks they're supposed to say
from movies.
And if you were playing with
Phil or Antonio, or anybody,
they'd be like,
"That's a string bet!"
>> Yeah.
>> That's a call!
That's a call!
That's a call!
>> The dealer would, you
wouldn't even have to.
>> You wouldn't even have to
call the floor, right?
>> Clooney is supposed to be a
savvy gambler, so that rain
falls for me.
So I would give it, you know, I
enjoyed, I enjoyed the humor of
it, but
I would give it in terms of
veracity, well, I guess a c
plus.
That would be that would be top
top.
>> Top top?
>> To quote, to quote Jamie
Gold.
>> I give the young actors
credit there for kinda playing
like, you know,.
Doofus versions of themselves.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> The Topher Grace,
the toothpick and the leather
jacket. He just bought in
the gift shop for $27.50.
Should have been like a grand or
whatever
>> Uh-huh.
>> So, in terms of setting the
tone for
how fun these movies are, I give
it a nice, like, you know, Jack
high straight.
The poker.
>> Jack high straight?
>> Yeah, I mean.
>> Straight's hard to make.
>> Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, right.
>> You maybe rivered it, you
were really hoping.
>> Yeah.
>> You rivered it.
>> A rivered Jack high straight.
You  kind of.
>> Yeah exactly.
>> Got involved in the pot and
then won it.
>> It's, well, the kind of Jack
high straight where you don't
know you have a straight.
You're bluffing and you're like,
oh, I have eight, eight, nine.
Oh and there's seven, ten, jack!
Yeah I win.
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