- From the Rivers property
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
this is Poker Night in America.
(jazzy music)
- Hello and welcome to
Poker Night in America.
I'm your host Chris Hanson,
alongside Joe Stapleton,
we are at Rivers in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Pittsburgh, the setting of
the first Jack Reacher movie.
You think I'm a hero?
I'm not a hero, I'm a
drifter with nothing to lose.
I need to beat you to
death and drink your blood
from a boot.
- [Chris] The day gets started
with this buy-in amount
from the different
players of the table.
Eli Elezra with eighty
six hundred dollars,
I bet you that came from a
blackjack hand that he won
and walked right
over to the table.
- [Joe] Yeah that's a weird
amount, there's definitely
a story behind that.
(laughing)
- [Chris] Brandon
Cantu buys in for 5000,
he's gonna start out
as our short stack,
lets play some poker here
at Rivers in Pittsburgh.
- Now we're different.
- You're different.
- I am different.
- [Joe] Aren't different
people the worst?
I treat them badly
because they make me
uncomfortable about myself.
- [Chris] Blinds are 25 and 50
here tonight on Poker
Night in America.
- [Joe] Straddle is
on, Kyle Bowker is not
a poker player, he's an
unstoppable rebel force
made of hair and cheese steak.
- [Chris] It looks
like his aces are only
gonna get action
from the straddle,
who calls his raise to 400.
- [Joe] King nine suited.
And I mean Kyle
Bowker's a total fish,
I never really thought
he was very good.
- [Chris] 600 is
the bet from Bowker,
so now Immakus deciding
what we should do with this.
- [Joe] Well Kyle is gonna
lose some more money here,
the only question is how much?
- [Chris] We're now at the 1900,
Immakus a local player here
from Rivers in Pittsburgh,
surrounded by a bunch
of professionals
from all over the country,
but that doesn't mean
Stapes he doesn't have the
skills to get the job done.
- [Joe] He certainly has the
skill of out flopping aces.
- [Chris] What?
- Seriously, it's
not a tournament,
you don't have to
save your image,
it's gonna be bleep by the
end of the day anyway.
- [Chris] Kyle Bowker
doesn't need image,
he just correctly folded
aces and a king high flop
to a single raise.
- [Joe] Straddle on again,
this time it's John Deeb
making the blind raise.
- [Chris] Speaking of lighting
money on fire, hi Shaun.
Bowker with four deuce
of diamonds this time.
Eli Elezra calls.
- [Joe] Where you
been Eli Elezra?
- [Chris] Alright, three
players in for 400 each.
- [Joe] Oh my goodness,
Brandon Cantu got old,
he looks like he's
playing the dad version
of himself in a movie.
- [Chris] Flop is
eight queen four,
couple of spades on the board.
- [Joe] Bowker pairs his four.
Bets it.
- [Chris] Eli Elezra
with the flush draw.
And one over to the
board with the ace.
- [Joe] And he's got
some backdoor straights,
we'll call that as well.
- Todd, you living in
Vegas or Montana now?
- Both.
- [Chris] Hm Vegas and
Montana, it's a good
Ying and Yang, isn't it.
- [Joe] Big sky country
and big lie country.
(laughing)
- I'm all in.
- [Joe] Well Elezra improves
but not to the hand he wants.
- [Chris] Chips it in and
gets another fold from Bowker.
- Heading in the
right direction.
- [Joe] He's found his fish.
I mean I was very
disappointed in myself
for losing in that line up.
- I'm talking about those,
you remember me, you,
Desi Marco, Marco
those old days,
playing the three, six, two,
four with him all the time.
- We'd play three six every
day and then we'd kick
it up to four eight and we'd
all take a piece of him,
so you could, cause he
was a three six player.
- [Joe] Uh that cool story
just made my short list
of the cool story bro of
2017 at the cool story bro
awards being held this February.
- [Eli] We definitely had him.
- [Chris] A raise to
1000 from Shaun Deeb.
Brunson folds, Bowker
folds, Elezra calls.
- Take your time
you mean, right?
You got aces?
Hello?
Look at me.
(laughing)
- [Joe] This should
be a fun hand.
- [Chris] That sounded like
live audio from your last date.
(laughing)
Well look at this flop, a
couple of clubs on board
Deeb is way ahead
because he also has
the straight possibility.
- I'm all in.
- Call.
- [Chris] Didn't take long.
- Pair of aces.
- I got clubs.
- Huh?
- Clubs.
- That's bad for you.
- Uh oh.
- [Joe] If you're at home
being like how many clubs
are in this deck?
It's 13 you dingus.
- [Brunson] Thank you.
- Thanks way to root for me.
- [Joe] Elezra dead on the turn.
- Shaun Deeb is gonna
scoop up his first
big pot of the
night, 12,450 bucks.
So Eli Elezra gets coolered
and to pour a little salt
in the wound he gets
consoled by Brandon Cantu.
- Oo baby, cooler,
console, Cantu, I'm yours.
- Welcome back to Rivers
in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
- Ah Pittsburgh, home of
Carnegie Melon's robotic center
launched in 1979, so
thank you in advance
for the machine apocalypse.
- What could
possib-lie go wrong?
- Yeah that's why Tyler was
rooting for a club for you,
or a pain for you.
His, you should
have saw his face,
he was so mad when he saw pain.
(laughing)
- [Chris] Three of
these 7 players actually
took a shower today.
We'll let you guess
which is which.
- [Shaun] It might
be high because
one of the straps was
high, take your shoes off.
- [Joe] Please don't.
- [Chris] Immakus makes it
300 with queen jack suited.
Deeb is in, Brunson folds.
- [Joe] Kyle Bowker puts in
another bet with ace queen,
he's got Immakus dominated.
Good fold.
- Roughly how much you buying?
- 16.
16, 17.
- Um purples are fine.
- [Joe] Give it to him
all in chartreuse please.
- [Chris] And I think
it's safe to say,
these two players, Shaun
Deeb and Kyle Bowker
have had bigger
swings on this show
than any other players that
have ever sat at our table.
- [Joe] They both do
traditionally very
well in this game,
the unstoppable force
versus the immovable object.
- [Chris] Flop is nine high.
- [Joe] Seriously try to
change Shaun Deeb's mind
on anything, you can't.
Bowker continuing his
pre flop aggression,
as board is supposed
to hit Shaun more often
and he has flopped the gut shot.
- [Chris] And a call from Deeb.
I'd be very surprised
if Deep doesn't make
some sort of move
here on the turn.
- [Joe] And that move is
to an up and down draw.
- [Chris] And that improves.
- [Joe] Bowker knows
the four of clubs
isn't a stellar card for him.
- [Chris] He also picks
up the wheel draw there
on the turn so life isn't
terrible for Kyle Bowker
right now but lets see
if Deeb decides to bet.
- [Joe] He's checking,
wants to give Shaun a chance
to bluff or semi-bluff at this.
If he bet he could potentially
face a raise all in.
- [Chris] Here comes that
bet from Deeb, it's 2400.
Now just over eight
grand in the pot.
Oh boy.
- [Joe] Bowker correctly
identifies that ace high
is the best hand.
- [Chris] Over 10K in the
pot, here's the river,
it's the king of spades.
- [Joe] Deeb is so rarely
gonna have a king in this spot.
And doesn't even try to rep it.
(laughing)
Seven high, oh my god,
that's such a bad hand.
Straddle is on, Kyle
Bowker, betting 100 dark,
he'll be last to
act before the flop.
Action on Kane Kalas, his dad
is someone famous, I forget.
- [Chris] Harry Kalas.
The late voice of the
Philadelphia Fillies
and also NFL films.
- [Joe] I had a Harry Kalas,
had to get it lasered.
- [Chris] Stop.
Ace king versus ace queen and
just a call from Kyle Bowker.
- [Joe] Like do not even
bother playing against
Kyle Bowker on this show.
He will come over to your
house, sit in your kitchen,
wait for you to wake up and
make it, then he will walk
over to your refrigerator
and eat your lunch.
- [Chris] Well the
price to see the turn
has just went up to
900 for Kane Kalas.
- [Joe] He's in such a bad spot.
- [Shaun] Hey, how are you?
- [Joe] Top pair, very good
kicker, yet somehow outkicked.
- [Chris] Seven on the turn.
- [Man] Hey Brandon, we're
still playing over here.
- [Joe] And the bad spot
for Kane Kalas continues.
- [Chris] And you're
just stuck with top pair,
second kicker, I mean
you have no other hope,
you're just stuck right now.
- [Joe] Yeah, I don't see
how he doesn't lose at least
another two K, he can't
make this lay down,
he's not Kyle Bowker.
Another two K fired
into the abyss
that is Kyle
Bowker's chip stack.
- [Chris] He needs a queen on
the river, doesn't find it.
- [Man] There's still seven
stacks, he's talking about
the six stack which is still,
he'll still show the hand
if it's an interesting hand.
- [Joe] Bowker's one last
chance to go for value.
Three full streets.
- [Chris] Ugh a painful call.
- [Joe] Pipped, poor
Kane Kalas, you know
I sure hope his middle
name isn't Karl.
- [Chris] Rivers in
Pittsburgh with Joe Stapleton,
it's Chris Hanson, back
with some new episodes
that are actually old
episodes that were taped
a while ago but it's the
magic of TV, it all works.
- [Joe] People are
watching this on YouTube,
they've no idea
what's new and old.
- [Chris] Action's pulled
around to Brandon Cantu.
- [Shaun] He was my roommate
for a few years in Vegas
but he never really came
around when I played live.
- [Todd] Before
you met your wife.
- [Kyle] I think the regular
Coke makes you fatter
but the diet--
- [Shaun] Kills you faster.
- [Kyle] Yeah.
- [Shaun] That fake sugar bleep.
- [Kyle] Yeah.
- It's funny people
think we're exaggerating
with 24 a day but it's not.
- 24 a day it's a lot.
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- Yeah, literally.
- [Joe] Immakus flops trips.
- Special creature that guy.
- [Shaun] He made me feel
healthy living with him.
- [Eli] Really?
- [Shaun] Yeah.
(laughing)
- [Eli] That's gotta
be interesting.
- [Kyle] Then he's go to the
doctor and they'd be like,
you're good.
(laughing)
- I don't know what he did--
- [Chris] There's a call.
- To get like more
prescriptions and like,
you know, the okay.
- Well you're gonna be alright.
- [Man] Well he got cancer.
- [Joe] Oh and unlike a package
from the postal service,
Cantu gets there, that's
unfair by the way,
it costs like a dollar.
- [Chris] Yeah, I mean
still, it's much better than
Pony Express, can we
just agree on that?
- [Joe] Yes.
- [Chris] Alright so Immakus
is sitting on trip nines,
Cantu just made a
straight, Immakus checks,
Cantu bet on the flop and it
looks like he's doing that
again here on the turn.
- [Shaun] With his credit card?
- His dad's credit card.
- One of these jacuzzi?
- [Shaun] Okay, that's not
nearly as bad as the story
I thought, I thought
he bought himself--
- [Chris] It's a pot
sized bet of 700.
- [Joe] Immakus has to
know there's potentially
a bad board for him
but also he has trips.
- I think it was, I
don't know for sure
but I think it was
his dad's birthday.
- I think you, do you
think that it's worse?
- I think it's worse, yeah.
- I mean, like
whatever, he broke--
- Do you think it's worse
to buy a gift for your dad
on your dad's credit card?
- Or buy a gift for yourself
on your dad's credit card?
- For your birthday on
your dads credit card.
- Obviously without
permission on either one.
- But he didn't have permission.
- [Shaun] What would your
dad do if you did that?
- [Man] He didn't have
permission either way.
- Well yeah, I
know, we know that.
- I just didn't do shit like
that, there wouldn't be no...
(laughing)
- [Shaun] You'd be
disowned real quick.
- This wasn't when he was young,
this was like two years
ago, he's like 33.
- [Shaun] He's mid 30s.
- His parents came
home from a vacation,
he was at their house
and they walked in
and he was like sitting in
a hot tub at their house
like he had like, he bought
on his dads credit card,
like had delivered and he was
like sitting in the hot tub
with his scotch and
they were like what?
- [Shaun] Did he have
his little iPad case?
- I'm sure.
- [Todd] Where, like
in the back yard?
- Yeah.
- [Joe] 21 25 in the middle,
Cantu over bets the pot
with this bet of 23 hundred.
- [Shaun] Eli you
might actually know him
through Frank Kisella
possibly, Frank and Ali's dad
are really good friends
and he was around.
- [Eli] But was he
playing poker in Vegas?
- [Shaun] He was.
- [Joe] Immakus just calls.
The worst mother full
houses out there.
(jazzy music)
- [Chris] Eight on
the river wins him
a 67 hundred dollar pot, okay!
- [Man] Didn't even
consider raising?
- Well Brandon Cantu
sees the bad news
which unfortunately is
all news all the time now.
- That's, that's fake news
like landing on the moon.
- If you'd just raised pre flop
you might have won that hand.
- Have to make the
pots bigger, slower.
- [Joe] Yes, bigger,
slower like Hodor.
Todd Brunson
straddling this hand.
- [Chris] Blinds
are still 25 and 50
as they are here every night
on Poker Night in America.
- [Joe] Straddle,
raise, call, call.
- [Chris] We're filling up
the screen with player names.
Aw.
- I was gonna lay three
to one that he was
gonna play the next hand.
Like me, we all the same.
So you lose the big pot, boom.
- I wonder if he takes that
as a compliment or an insult.
- [Chris] Flop is deuce king
jack with a couple of hearts.
- [Joe] Hoochie mama,
top pair versus two pair
versus a straight
and flush draw,
there's a smaller car crash
on the Blue's Brothers.
- Uh oh.
(laughing)
Uh oh.
Nobody slow roll.
- How do you know slow rolling?
- Tens.
- I don't have it yet.
- [Shaun] Do you have
an ace queen of hearts?
- [Chris] Bowker's
got them both covered.
- Can you throw that away Eli?
- Yeah, I can, it's
only 10, king 10,
what else can I have?
Oo baby.
- [Joe] Of course
Bowker gets there.
Bowker chicka-wow-wow-ker.
- Good game guys.
- [Chris] Back at it quickly
here with Kyle Bowker
and the straddle, Eli Elezra.
Coming in with nines,
kings for Kane Kalas.
Now up to 11 hundred.
- [Joe] My friend wanted
me to put him down
for that satellite, his
name is Hugh, Hugh Jass.
- [Chris] You know I love
it, every time we are here
in Pittsburgh, they do
these cold deck hands
to get into the main
event of the tournament
where everyone just
piles in the money
and then they just deal out
one hand and see who wins.
- [Joe] Fun times in
Pittsburgh again, fantastic.
- It's gonna be smaller right?
I mean the last few times
we've had it was no more
than like 50K right?
- [Shaun] It was
like 80 last time.
- [Chris] Dangerous
flop for nines.
- [Kyle] I think yesterday
they got 30 players.
- [Shaun] Oh really?
- [Kyle] Yeah.
- [Shaun] Oh then way
smaller than before.
There's a lot of competition
going on this week.
The last few times there
was like 150 each day.
- [Joe] Oh my god, KK is
Kane Kalas's initials,
I just now realized that.
- [Kyle] Yeah the
flyer said one K.
- [Joe] Kalas bets 525,
ELezra's got an over pair
to the board so he
is unlikely to fold.
- All in.
- [Chris] All in and a call.
- [Shaun] Yeah you have to
commit or yeah you don't?
- [Joe] Eli in bad shape again.
- [Kyle] I don't think
so, I think that--
- [Shaun] That you don't
have to commit at all.
- Yeah, I think that he's
got people in the line up
but if they play the tournament
he'll find another place for us.
- [Joe] It is over
dead on the turn.
- Lets see Eli.
- [Chris] Back to
back hands where
Eli Elezra gets cleaned out.
- [Joe] Eli E-lets-go.
- [Chris] Ace king
for Todd Brunson.
- [Joe] Looks like
Bowker's interested.
Well Bowker aint getting
the Todd-father to fold
but I'm sure he'll just
come all diamonds or sevens.
Sevens and then
runner, runner, ace.
- [Chris] Finds just enough
chips to make that call
so 45 hundred in the pot
as we got to the flop.
Brunson hits the king.
Zero help for Bowker.
- [Joe] Yeah, no pair, no
draw, but he is gonna bet it.
- [Chris] Well it's
safe to say Bowker's
been fairly active tonight so if
Todd has been
picking up on that,
I mean he's showing an
ace high for a winner,
he's showing that he's
been playing all kinds
of different hands.
- [Joe] There's no
chance Todd's folding.
- [Chris] Calls.
Alright so Bowker now
gets a little bit of help.
- [Joe] I mean that's
amazing, he goes from no pair,
no draw to a
straight flush draw.
And he goes from regular
bluffing to semi bluffing.
Kyle's gonna have to continue
improving on the river though
because Todd is never
folding top top here.
Oh and what the what, Kyle
Bowker are you serious?
- Was kind of actually a bluff.
- [Shaun] Huh?
- It's not really a
bluff but, I don't know.
- [Chris] He's kinda
having a good day.
- [Joe] Everything
is coming up Bowker.
- It was a good turn card, yeah.
- George Carlin must be
spinning in his grave right now.
- I'm getting really
sick of guys named Todd.
and claim your free Sit
& Go 2.0 strategy ebook.
- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America
where we just
watched Todd Brunson
make a pretty pretty nitty
fold and despite that
he is one of the
two winners tonight,
Now the other winner of course,
the shocker, Kyle Bowker.
Safe to say it wasn't a
good day to be sitting
in the middle of
the table because
Eli Elezra and Brandon
Cantu both got emptied
and pretty much all
that money Stapes
went directly to Kyle Bowker.
- If you ask me
the real losers are
the people of Pittsburgh,
good night everybody.
Why does anybody even
agree to play Kyle Bowker?
- Yeah, why do you
pay for Tinder?
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- I almost showed.
- Sorry?
That would have been low,
yeah, that would have been,
That would have been low,
yeah, that would have been,
I would have threw
up a few shows.
I didn't expect to show so.
- [Shaun] Really?
- I wasn't gonna call, I
was gonna show or fold.
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