Poker Night in America | Season 4, Episode 1 | Twitch Celebrity Cash Game, Part 1 - It Begins

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From Las Vegas, Nevada. This is Poker Night in America.
(uptempo jazz music)
- Welcome to Poker Night in America.
The start of a brand new season.
I got a co-host.
It's Chris Hanson along with Joe Stapleton.
Welcome, Stapes!
- Thanks for having me.
I really needed this job.
I have two girls in college
and those are just ones I'm dating.
- Stapes, you're starting off with a real doozy.
It's our Twitch celebrity cash game in Las Vegas.
- Yeah, you're not kidding.
This is a packed table, literally.
There is almost no elbow room
and everybody's gonna need to make some space
for the G.O.A.T.; Phil Hellmuth is on his way.
(poker players chatting)
- [Chris] Buy-in tonight is a minimum of $5K and of course,
since we're in Vegas, there is no maximum buy-in.
Pretty much anything's going to be allowed here tonight,
on Poker Night in America.
Alright, Joe Stapleton, tell us about this blind structure.
I'm a little confused already on the ante from the big blind
and a deuce-seven?
- So it's No-Limit Texas Hold Me.
Blind is $25 and $50,
with a $200 ante paid on the big blind
and the deuce and seven rule is in play;
win a hand with seven-two, everyone at the table's
gonna pay you 200 bucks.
- [Dan] Starts with antes.
- [Jason] That's great.
- [Dan] $25, $75, $150.
- [Antonio] I love it.
- [Dan] The best.
- [Elky] EPT's and High Rollers start with antes.
- [Dan] What does? - [Jason] The high rollers--
- [Elky] High Rollers and EPT's start with antes.
- [Dan] Yeah.
- [Elky] That's really good, that's so much better.
- [Antonio] So much better.
- And for this deuce-seven game we were playing,
you have to scoop it.
Not chopped, not, like, run it twice and win with one--
- Yeah, $200, $200 bonus. - Scoop the whole pot.
- [Antonio] Are we on for seven-deuce?
- [Phil L.] Yeah, we are.
- [Dan] For sure.
- [Antonio] We're on?
How much is it if you win it?
- [Everyone] $200.
- [Joe] You'd be surprised how often the seven-deuce rule
comes into play.
It's always aces or seven-deuce.
- [Voiceover] Sorry, let me turn that on.
- [Pit Boss] Put your cards side by side over here.
Over the spot.
- [Joe] I'm sure, Randy's gonna put in
another raise, here.
- [Antonio] Are these RF, RF--
- [Dan] Yeah, RFID.
- [Chris] And Lew makes it $800.
- [Joe] And Randy's got a pretty tight image,
so this should get him some respect.
Ahh, except that Antonio has respect for no one.
- [Chris] And we'll trim down to two players, so Lew and
Esfandiari will see the flop together.
- [Joe] Antonio does have a pretty good hand
for cracking queens.
- [Chris] Is that qualified for cracking queens, or not?
- [Joe] Apple-solutely!
Randy!
What a bad spot for him.
Top set and it's no good.
- [Antonio] You start with five, right?
- [Chris] $900 from Lew and a call from Esfandiari.
- [Joe] Antonio could have raised there,
it was a draw-heavy board.
- [Chris] Both players right now are in love
with their hands, obviously.
- [Joe] Yeah, definitely.
And Randy's almost always betting again.
He's just never beat, here, except for now.
Like, never, but now!
- [Chris] $1,700 the bet from Randy Lew.
- [Joe] And I'm pretty sure we see a raise from Antonio now.
Lew is repping a pretty strong hand when he bets twice.
- [Joe] Randy, it's the first hand!
- [Chris] Board's gotta pair on the river
otherwise the entire stack is going to Esfandiari.
- First hand, sick.
- That was the first hand and everything all in.
- Set, a whaddyacallit, flush.
- [Chris] And Randy Lew finds a cooler on the very first
hand, here on Poker Night in America.
- First hand was all in.
- [Joe] Flop's a straight, river's a flush.
- Wow. Wow.
- I don't think I've ever flopped like that in my life.
- Flopped a joint with back doors,
he flops top set.
- How are we, are we tipping later?
- [Joe] There's a reason why Antonio
is the winningest player of all time
and that reason is because he won 18 million dollars
in one tournament.
But he's also pretty good.
- [Chris] That will bump you up quickly,
no doubt about it.
So now we'll have to see if Randy, with a fresh rebuy,
goes after Antonio Esfandiari and tries to get
some of that money back.
- Nine-ten spades. - What can I do?
- It came eight, jack, queen, I'm thinking,
"Wow, that would be nice to have nine-ten here."
- Never mind nine-ten of spades.
- Come back in, when it's your big blind, you play.
- That makes sense.
- 'Cause then it's just always easier to enter on big blind.
- It's easier to enter the game.
- [Joe] The straddle is on.
Elky raising blind under the gun's gonna get him
positioned before the flop.
- It's really not a big deal.
I think it's better this way.
- [Chris] Phil Laak limps in with ace-jack.
Esfandiari with ace-jack suited makes it $500.
Phil Laak to $4,550.
- [Joe] These two guys have the same hand!
These two! This is so them!
- You might as well get all in,
because the fear of me having two-seven is too strong
in your veins, I can feel it.
You don't wanna see the deuce-seven.
It's the only way out, is to go all in.
- (inaudible)
- [Phil] That's your way out.
- [Joe] I don't think he's folding.
- How much more is it, four?
- Yeah, four.
- [Chris] Antonio's only in this hand for $500.
- [Elky] I like how the game is starting.
It's pretty...
It's pretty strong already.
It's pretty strong already.
- We got some feisty players in here.
- [Chris] A re-raise from Antonio goes to $8,600.
- [Joe] And normally, if this was any other two players,
I would say they're turning ace-jack into a bluff,
but against each other, I have no idea.
- He just tossed a $50 in there or something, yeah.
- He raised 13?
I can't see it.
Oh it's four.
Are those purples or fives?
Okay, yeah.
Six, seven, eight.
Four, five.
- [Joe] Make no mistake, Chris,
when this happens in real life, you're supposed to fold.
- Okay, all in.
- [Joe] (laughs) Okay, not move all in.
- [Chris] Ace-jack off suit, that is
your opportunity to say goodbye?
- [Joe] I mean, the first four thousand
shouldn't have gone in.
- We have to see 'em.
- I don't have a very good hand, I'm embarrassed.
- Really, we don't have to do that here?
- We're gonna see it in 15 minutes anyway.
- I mean, we've got just one hand a piece probably.
- You're gonna maybe see one hand.
- [Joe] They're both too embarrassed to show.
- Ace, I don't know, probably not good.
- Maybe it's good.
You might have a set of queens.
(laughter)
- Now I have to fade queens I think.
- [Joe] This is so funny, they both think they're gonna
win this pot.
Oh!
- I might not be good.
- [Joe] Now they're both gonna think they're losing.
- You like to chop?
- No, you have ace-king?
It's gonna be--
- You wanna chop or no?
- [Joe] You don't have a choice!
- [Antonio] Yes or no?
- No.
- Well how--
- [Joe] It is a chop.
- [Bleep] knucklehead gets $15,000 in there with ace-jack.
What an idiot!
- [Phil L.] I thought I was ahead or chopping.
- Yeah, when I re-raise you there, your hand's, like,
really good all the time.
- [Phil L.] Okay, keep putting it in with ace-jack,
let's see how far you go.
- What a numbnuts.
By the way that was really well played,
just raise it $4,000 with the ace-jack.
But just to win $500 and some of the time you lose
your whole stack.
You are so hopeless, it's amazing.
- [Chris] When we come back, 14 Bracelets sits down at our
Poker Night in America table,
when Phil Hellmuth joins us next.
- Yum-yum, boys! Woo-hoo-hoo!
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Where you can see complete episodes and un-edited live streams
- [Chris] Welcome back to Poker Night in America.
- Yum-yum, boys! Woo-hoo-hoo!
- [Chris] And finally arriving is the one and only
Phil Hellmuth.
- Phil, I hope you have an extra one of those shirts, [Bleep].
- [Joe] The G.O.A.T.!
Been selling a lot of these.
(Dan laughs)
- You have to say you love it.
- I do love it.
- He's got his money like--
- [Antonio] It's good for me.
- (laughs) It's good for you, yeah no (bleep).
- Pretty good first hand.
That was a sick first hand.
Ace jack against ace jack for 15K.
- [Antonio] Phil and I got in $15K each.
With ace-jack.
You would not have approved.
(laughter)
He played it like a real genius, too.
- Well I had two flush draws, he only had one.
- I had a little edge.
- Antonio, don't start talking (bleep) already, okay?
I mean, you know, the last time we played, I won, like,
$24,000 in this cash game and you lost, like, $20,000 right?
- Last time? Where was that?
- [Phil H.] Yeah, you have a bad memory
when it comes to losing, don't you?
New York. - [Antonio] I don't remember.
- [Phil H] Turning Stone.
- [Antonio] I didn't lose in New York.
- [Phil H.] You didn't wind up losing?
Well, when I left, you were buried.
Once I left, it was a lot easier for you.
- [Phil L.] He always gets unstuck.
It's Mr. Esfandiari.
- [Antonio] Pretty sure I ended up winning, I don't know.
The one with Frankenberger?
- [Phil H.] Yeah.
- It's Randy, I gotta put in.
- [Antonio] I think I won.
- I gotta play with Randy.
- By the time we quit yesterday, Phil, it was $25, $50, $100,
$200 on the button, $50 from every player,
with the seven-deuce game.
That is juicy.
- Come on.
- Sounds fun.
- Come on.
- We're playing seven-deuce to start.
- Yeah, we're playing seven-deuce--
- [Dan] And $200 on the big blind.
- $200 on the big blind, yeah.
- Can you rank the best to the worst players
at the table, please?
We'd like to know your ranking.
- Can I guess what Phil's rankings are?
- Come on, everybody's strong.
- Can I guess what Phil's rankings are?
- [Antonio] Guess his rankings?
- [Jason] Yeah, I wanna guess Phil's rankings, okay?
- [Antonio] and then we want your rankings.
- [Jason] No, no, no, no, no.
- [Dan] Start number one.
- [Jason] Start number one, well Phil ranks himself
number one, obviously.
- [Antonio] Obviously.
I mean, that's not even just him ranking,
I mean, it's just clear.
- [Jason] Number two, I think he would rank you over Elky,
I think it's two, three--
- [Antonio] No shot, by the way.
- [Jason] No shot, you think it's two, three?
- [Antonio] He thinks I'm terrible.
- [Jason] He thinks you're terrible?
Okay, maybe that's the thing.
It's gotta be, it's not even close, maybe it's two, three.
- I think he gives Dan number two.
- No way, Dan is in the bottom four of Phil's expectations.
I'm just saying. Come on.
- Bottom four, really?
- Yeah, I think Dan is the bottom four, too.
(laughter)
- Okay.
- I mean, what Phil thinks.
- So Elky number two, alright?
- Yeah, so okay, so let's say, Elky, two,
you, three, four--
- All, like, the worst.
- He might think Randy's towards the bottom actually,
after yesterday, I think Randy starts the bottom.
So, sorry, Randy.
- We've had our moments.
You know, Phil, when the Shooting Star took place,
I don't know, 15 years ago, he had a party
for all the Shooting Stars, and he hired me as a magician
to work the party.
And I was hanging out with all these poker stars,
and I was like, in La La Land, I'm like, oh my God,
that's so-and-so, that's so-and-so, you know?
I was doing magic, he hired me.
- That's awesome.
Great story.
- True story.
- And then, he wanted to play heads-up for the fee.
- [Antonio] I said, you gotta play me for my fee for doing
the magic, double or nothing.
- So I did play him heads up for the fee.
I finally, he was playing like a maniac even then;
raise, raise, raise, raise, raise.
His usual tournament style, not his cash game style.
And finally, I picked up aces, and I came like, the
king, deuce, deuce, and we put most of it in,
and a five came.
And he just, whoosh, and I just snapped 'em in there,
and he showed me pocket fives.
Double up on the fee.
- Typical kid play.
- The kid, you know?
- Yeah.
- [Antonio] Uh oh.
First squeezer moves in, second squeezer in the tank.
This is--
- [Phil L.] That's nice.
- [Antonio] I love squeezer battles, you know?
(Phil H. laughs)
- [Phil L.] Squeezer battles.
- Squeezing you.
- [Phil H.] Have you ever noticed that how Phil Laak
influences the action
in the deuce-to-seven game all the time?
- Yeah, he gets involved.
- But no, I mean it influences the action, because
he doesn't want to pay the $200, so he can't help himself,
I noticed this yesterday, I didn't say it out loud.
So every time he has to suggest that someone might have
deuce-seven, so that he might not have to pay $200.
- Well yeah, king--
- -that's been like, pre-established for a while,
right, Antonio?
Deuce-seven, when some raise happens,
you're allowed to go, "Ahhh..."
- You're allowed to do that.
- We can chop right now if you want.
- [Joe] Man, if Jamie loses this and gets shown
seven-deuce, he may not survive.
- Oh, you're dead.
You're dead.
Phil H.] It's worth $11.
- It's pocket nines grouped with ace-king?
- [Joe] Antonio is priced in, by the way,
if you're wondering why he called an all in
with seven-deuce.
Uh-oh, diamonds!
Ace-king holds.
- You win.
I had outs.
(laughter)
- On the turn, he picked up the world.
- $2,850.
- [Chris] And Jamie Staples is elated to double up
through Antonio Esfandiari.
- [Joe] He survives both figuratively and literally.
- I wanted to hurt you guys so bad on that one.
You were all in potential pain, you know, you had no idea.
- [Joe] We'll be back with more action
from the Twitch Celebrity Cash Game right after this.
- There's no reading ability, there's no math,
there's no logic.
Just Antonio on Tilt.
- Yeah, we call it A.O.T.
Antonio on Tilt.
- Antonio on Tilt.
- [Chris] Thanks for coming back to Poker Night in America.
Let's return to the cash game.
This is our Twitch Celebrity Cash Game.
- [Joe] It's like a bunch of young kids have been adopted
by their three weird uncles.
- Do I owe $250? Is that how it works?
- [Chris] Who are the three weird uncles, by the way?
- [Joe] Antonio, Phil, and Phil.
- You want a sweet potato?
-Cooked?
- [Chris] A sweet potato brought to the table
for Antonio Esfandiari, who has been complaining
that he's hungry.
Phil's taking care of that, looks like oatmeal,
not sure what's on top.
Do you have any inside information on that?
- [Joe] I do not, but I will try my best
to get to the bottom of it.
I once ate Phil Hellmuth's leftover Oreos.
That's the end of the story.
- [Dan] I got a $50 discount yesterday.
- [Chris] Scott Ball makes it $300 with ace-king.
- It's $300 open and that's it.
- [Phil H.] Phil, you wakeboarded all night?
- Just from four 'till nine-thirty.
- [Chris] A raise to $900 from Dan O'Brien.
- [Joe] And Dan has dominated.
- What exactly is wakeboarding?
- Wakesurfing.
The boat generates waves, and you put the board in the wave,
and you surf it, surf that wave.
- You wanna play your hand, and then explain, numbnuts?
- [Joe] Oh, mean.
I think he's only saying that 'cause he's hungry.
- [Chris] He's "hangry".
- [Joe] He is "hangry" right now.
- [Chris] He should have eaten that sweet potato
he was being offered.
- Wow, the great mind of Phil Laak.
Can you imagine what's going on up there, Somerville?
- He's just dancing in there.
- Psychic flow, psychic flow.
- You would not believe what he did with ace-jack earlier.
I mean, it was so bad.
Even you would say it's so bad.
- I believe it.
- It was just so bad.
- Sometimes you have to get it in,
but that was not one of the times.
(laughter)
- That was good, Elky.
That's Elky's line.
That might be the line of the day.
Sometimes you just have to get it in, but with that--
- That was definitely not the time.
He got in $15,000.
- [Chris] Phil Laak makes it $3,300 with ace-king suited.
Coming back around to Scott Ball.
- In half an hour, it's on its way.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- That was sick, he goes like, limp, hundred,
makes it $500, makes it $3,500--
- [Antonio] No, $4,500.
- $4,500?
- [Antonio] Yeah.
Oh, I love it, yes! Super squeeze,
hurting Phil Laak!
- Makes it $8,500, and and he was waiting for $15K.
- Fold.
- [Joe] Dan gets away from it.
- Pull in $3,300 from both of us, would you?
- [Antonio] I made it like $8,200, like I'm ever folding
for another $7K, when he's only got--
- [Phil H.] You had ace-jack also?
- [Antonio] I had ace-jack of spades.
(laughter)
- [Chris] Back to this hand, it is the same situation.
Ace-king vs. ace-king suited.
- [Joe] Except in this situation, it's okay to get it in.
- [Chris] Ace-jack, no good, ace-king, that's fine.
- Yosemite would have already snapped.
- It's gonna be worse.
I'd rather have deuce-seven than whatever he has.
- Guys, we should have to turn over one card for all ins.
At least one, so we have some sort of a good sweat.
- Of course you should, you have to turn over.
- I'm not gonna show my hand.
- Let's do it from now on, we gotta just show one card.
- [Joe] Is that common on Poker Night in America?
I hate it when they don't show their hands
when I'm in the game.
Now I know what they are.
I don't care if you show 'em or not.
- Ace-king, come on.
- [Joe] One club on that flop.
- [Antonio] Ace!
- [Joe] Chop it up.
- [Phil H.] It's like, queen-nine.
He just made nines or some (bleep).
- [Joe] Scott can exhale now.
- [Antonio] He's got queens.
Phil's got queens.
He's not happy about it.
- [Antonio] Ace-queen.
- [Phil L.] Chop it up.
- [Chris] A couple of huge pots have just ended in chops.
It's kind of disappointing.
- Guys, so let's turn one if we're all in, yeah?
That seems reasonable.
- (inaudible)
- Okay, one if you're all in.
- I prefer to show both.
- [Joe] Check out the way the dealer's chopping the pot.
It's like synchronized swimming.
- Now you take away from the possibility
of slow-rolling on the river.
And in this game, there's a couple guys that slow-roll.
- True.
- It's not a slow-roll if it's a chop.
- [Joe] Here comes the big finale.
- But I'm gonna slow-roll you if I can.
- Of course.
( Joe hums the Blue Danube Waltz)
- I feel like you have potential.
- [Chris] Alright, that was fun.
By the way, you can always watch our live streams
at pokernight.com.
- I don't like to specifically needle anyone.
Except when I come after Antonio, just for fun.
- [Chris] Lots more events coming up this year.
It's funny how when you watch the live stream,
you really get to see all the hands that are being played
and these players are so good.
I mean, I'll just put it out there,
they are really good players,
we're seeing a lot of odd kind of play here,
maybe you think, but 10 hands set up each hand
that you're seeing.
- [Joe] We're just showing the car crash hands
but there's lots of meta-game happening in between.
- [Chris] 10s for Esfandiari.
Up to $300.
- Mister O'Brien.
- [Chris] And Dan O'Brien.
Look 'em up.
- [Joe] Dan's caught a piece, here.
Means he's not gonna fold on the flop.
And now Dan's got a bigger piece, he is in fact
cracked 10s so far.
Antonio's up and down, though.
Dan's decided to lead the turn.
Which you'd often do with a draw, so I think Antonio's
never folding.
- Call.
- [Chris] Antonio does call.
And we go to the river which is another seven,
full house now for O'Brien.
Does pairing the board scare Antonio at all at this point?
- [Joe] I think it does, especially when Dan bets the river.
Shouldn't be too much trouble for him to get away from this.
He's not being much at all, Dan's fired on every street,
I don't think he can really rep a bluff either
since the board ran out with most of the draws missing.
- [Chris] Good bet size from O'Brien, though,
if you are gonna get Antonio to call here.
- [Joe] Pretty small, relative to the size of this pot.
- [Chris] It's the right price for curiosity,
as a friend of mine used to say.
- Hmm, Mr. O'Brien, hmm.
- Ace-eight?
- [Phil H.] So why were you wakeboarding
at four in the morning, Phil?
- We got an All-American Dave's.
We just drove to Lake Mead, you can get there in 38
minutes from Panorama to the Lake--
- [Phil H.] I like your precision, 38 minutes.
- [Phil L.] 38 minutes from bed to boat, roughly, boom.
- [Joe] Hey, speaking of boats, lull.
- [Phil L.] 4:10.
- [Joe] I thought it was called wakeboarding
because you do it when you're awake.
I've been getting it wrong for a really long time.
- [Phil L.] And then we were in the boat,
and drifting around...
- [Joe] And I got this one wrong, too.
Antonio did not get away from it at all.
- [Phil L.] It's right there, he's got a boat that
generates the waves.
You need to do it.
- [Chris] Closed Captioning is brought to you
as a public service by Poker Night in America.
Well here's where we're gonna end the night
for now, and everyone who's got a green arrow
next to them is up over 1,600 bucks each.
- [Joe] There were a couple of car crash hands
that ended in chops which is why I think we don't see
too many huge profits and losses here.
Jason Somerville the big loser so far,
and Elky is down almost $6K.
- Well that was a lot of fun, Stapes,
but this table's just getting warmed up.
- Well next time, if you like acronyms, we've got some hot
A.O.T. action.
OMG, TTYL.
- And speaking of the internet,
you can find us a pokernight.com, where you can watch
full episodes, and check out our Twitch live stream.
For Joe Stapleton, I'm Chris Hanson, we'll see you next time
on Poker Night in America.
- GG.
- You offered Phil to chop, the best he can do is chop.
- The best he can do is chop, right?
- Because you're playing aces and queens with a jack kicker,
the best he can do is chop.
And you declined to chop.
- Would you like to chop?
- [Phil L.] No, you have ace-king?
It's gonna be--
- You wanna chop or no?
Yes or no?
- No.
- Well how--
- - you have to say yes.
- [Bleep] knucklehead gets $15,000 in there with ace-jack.
What an idiot.
- [Phil L.] I thought I was ahead or chopping.
- That's his style.
- All he can do is lose in that scenario.
- He's not offering it unless it's neutral.
So it doesn't matter.
- That's not true, I have offered many times and then
turned it over.
- Not right there, I had a soul read on you, kid.
I know what you're trying to do.
- [Antonio] By the way, if someone offers a chop,
it's binding if the other person says yes
before the offer is removed, because I might do that
with the best hand, and then when they say no deal,
stick it to 'em.