- [Chris] From the
Rivers Property in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
this is Poker Night In America.
(upbeat jazz music)
- Welcome to Poker
Night In America,
from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
we are at the Rivers Property.
Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly are
on the same table today and...
it might not be big enough
for the two of them, Stapes?
- Of course it's big enough,
it's big enough for
like nine people.
- No, I meant in more
of like a metaphor,
like, you know, there
could be some weirdness
with both of them at the table.
- No, they get along quite
well at the table, actually.
- Well, did you know
that there's a guy at the table
that we think
actually might be a robot?
- Now I'm in.
- [Chris] Day one at
Rivers, the buy-ins
go from 5k to 20k.
It looks like the 10,000 buy-in
was awfully popular, Joe.
- [Joe] Yeah, Dave
Eldridge and Sam...
Fried...ganton...
Friedgan, they're the only two
who didn't buy in for 10K.
- You might not recognize
David from last year,
he was on the show
from Pittsburgh,
but he didn't have a beard.
- Yeah, he grew a beard.
- He looks totally different.
- Yeah, I didn't recognize
him for a second.
- He's just trying to trick you.
- Then I saw those
wise eyes shining up
over your hairy...
[Chris] What?
...lower visage.
And I was like,
"Oh, I remember you!"
- [Harman] Oh, it does
smell like gasoline.
- It does.
It went away, it
smells really strong.
- [Harman] It's over here now.
No, I smell it.
That way.
-Still
- [Joe] Everyone
smells gasoline,
maybe they all
have brain tumors.
- David really has a,
what do you call it,
a game...
not game theory...
plan.
Every time I'm in the hand,
he's gonna be in the hand.
Okay, we'll see.
Weird
(men laughing)
- Don't take it personal,
because every time that
anyone's in a hand,
I'll be in the hand.
- I didn't miss that.
(men laughing)
I know when I'm being needled.
- [Glantz] No, because
he played every hand,
it's not just with you.
- Okay, I check too.
- So, feel better?
- Wait, I don't
know what I have.
Oh, I shouldn't
have checked, okay, but...
aagh..
I'll probably bet
the next street.
- [Chris] Check
around at the turn,
it's a nine, so Eldridge
makes the straight.
Now I'm going to bet
I'll make it 300.
then reverse like saying,
"I should have bet."
- [Joe] Good way
to kick things off.
Especially if you're
gonna have someone
drawing dead against
you, betting into you.
- What is going on?
Everybody likes to
pick on Ms. Tilly.
[Glantz] Yeah, you weren't
prepared.
[Laak] Then all of a sudden I
was.
Showing your face to that.
- [Chris] Tilly calls.
So our first pot of the
night is up over 3,000.
- [Joe] Pretty loose call.
- I actually
brought the goggles, but I
I don't know, if they
come out a mood dependent so,
It seems like it's always a
favorite, but I don't know.
- Oh, I think people like to
see your facial expressions on
the TV and stuff.
- Yeah.
- Just makes them
more fun to watch.
- Right.
Sometimes I just
can't help myself,
and I have to...
go skiing.
- [Chris] So Eldridge
has got the nuts.
Time to bring in on
down the value-ville.
- I can't explain it.
- That's a massive bet.
I don't even remember
how you play.
- [Chris] After all the
thinking it through,
what are we doing
here, Jennifer Tilly?
- Or you had a big pocket pair,
and you're waiting
for me to catch up.
- [Joe] She really
wants to call.
- I call.
- [Joe] She does!
- Oh, gut shot!
- [Joe] Oh, second pair,
not good to an over bet
on the River, what?
- [Joe] Now, granted,
she's probably played
with him before and knows
he's capable
of doing that with a worse hand.
- Can I get some chips?
Gut shot.
- [Joe] Look at that, see?
All you have to do is be
a pretty girl and cry,
and someone throws a
stack of money at you.
- It's possible we might
get involved in another pot,
at some point.
- Who?
Me and you?
- Me and Jen.
- [Tilly] Possible.
- The ultimate deal
hand for you would be
to bluff Phil off a
turn and then beat her
for the River of big pot.
[Laak] Right, and I would have
had the
best hand...
-Yeah
- [Chris] Aces.
- [Baker] I want to bet with
the second best hand ever,
have her call with the
worst and you fold the best.
That's really like, my ultimate
dream
-That would cause maximum pain.
-Yes
- Absolutely.
- [Chris] Ganzfried
makes it 325.
-So, you play those video games
where
the bullet goes through two
people
and you get a special 
kill achievement.
-So now if he bets big on the
river
and she calls, you can't fold
behind now
-700.
-Right now, I'm trapped in a
math circuit.
I have to burn out and call
- That was a pretty awkward
raise but we accept.
- [Joe] Speaking
of maximum pain,
Aces against King-Queen suited
could cause maximum pain
if a King or a Queen flops.
- David wants to
play every hand 
over here.
- What do you mean wants to?
(laughing)
I'm gonna play this one.
-It's something in the name.
-I smelled a re-pop
- [Joe] Oh man, and Eldridge
4-bets King-Queen off,
what a dream this is
turning into for Aces.
- [Glantz] Sam, why you looking?
Because if it's Aces
it's a free roll.
You get to,
- I should call with this hand.
- Can I look?
What?
(laughing) I didn't excpect to
see that
- [Laak] It would go
with the game dynamic.
- I didn't expect to see
that hand when she said that.
- [Eldridge] What is going on?
- [Joe] So Sam is part of
a team that's created an AI
that plays poker.
Look at this, you
can see all the
[imitating a computer]
going on in his head right now.
- All in.
- [Chris] Human or computer,
that it is the right
play if you're him.
- [Joe] Computer says,
"All in."
I have to fold
- Has anyone at the table not
raised this hand pre-flop?
- So sad.
- [Eldridge] Yeah, I didn't.
- Wait, Sam did you say all in?
- Just put some chips in.
Put the orange chips in.
- Oh wow, that's interesting.
- [Joe] If Eldridge were
last to act, he may call here
but he's still got
Baker to worry about.
-Well, we knew that.
- Wow, you folded?
- And that's why they
call you the fish.
-That's why David raised.
- How much do you have?
Do you have me covered?
I mean...
What do you have, you
have another $3,000?
I have to call, I'm
getting two to one.
Okay, let's go.
- [Chris] ODB does call.
- I want to see these tickets.
I want to see these tickets
- They're not good.
Dealer, I request to see that
hand
Hey, do we have some...
Can I get some chips?
- I request to see
that hand, win or lose.
You don't have to they said
- We can sweat it,
if I have any outs
after the flop.
- [Tilly] Do you guys want to?
- Well he's not
gonna turn it up.
- I'll turn it up, I don't care.
Like in a tournament,
that would be fun.
Just don't have Aces.
- [Tilly] I think he has Aces.
Nice!
- [Joe] Check out
Sam's "Smile" program
working overtime right now.
- At least I have three outs!
- Well, no you don't want
him to have two Kings,
because that's the
worst match-up.
- Ace King, Ace King, Ace King.
I just had to get
through the good hand.
- [Joe] Ain't many
Kings left in this deck.
- [Chris] Yeah, nothing.
Give him a six just for a sweat.
- [Baker] Hey, I
need some chips.
(players groaning)
- All sorts of outs!  Let's go!
You're more alive
than a hand grenade.
- Yeah, he could
make a straight.
I think we should have
a four now, a four.
- [Joe] This would be grosser
than taking a black
light into my bedroom.
(players gasp)
- [Tilly] Oh, nice hand.
- Straight!
How unlucky do I get?
- [Chris] It's new motherboard
time for Sam Ganzfried,
[Joe] (laughs)
paid for by David Baker.
- [Tilly] Did you guys
notice my magic power
of card-calling?
(laughing)
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- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America
at Rivers in Pittsburg,
with Joe Stapleton,
I'm Chris Hanson.
- [Joe] And it's
time for a photo op!
-Alright, here we go.  Ready?
That guy looks a lot
like you, Chris Hanson.
- [Tilly] Now everybody
throw your chips in the air!
- [Chris] Yeah, I don't
talk about him much,
but that's my twin
brother Tad, Tad Hanson,
who does the floor directing
while we're on location.
- [Joe] I see he
got all the looks.
- [Chris] Well,
someone had to swim
at the shallow end
of the gene pool.
- Look, if you could hook me up
with some real hands right now,
I could make a lot of money
because, you know, they
don't think I ever have it.
- Wow, we could not
be more photogenic.
I can't see very well because
I have my contacts in.
- I'm not even sure if
you're allowed to raise
as much as this guy's raising.
- Come on, someone has to
bring action to this game.
Matt Glantz isn't here so.
- Yeah, but there's WiFi here.
- This is a really good picture.
I think Sam looks the best
because he's closest to camera.
- The Poker Room WiFi,
the password is, "Crosby..."
- [Chris] Oh great, now
Matt Glantz is giving out
the internet password for
the Poker Room, great.
- [Sam] Do you have any tips
to improve being photogenic?
(laughing)
- [Tilly] Uh no, not really.
You know what's good?
If he does a high angle.
Okay, this one if going
out into the world.
I'm putting out into
the Twitter-sphere.
The first one.
First, I'll put it in Twitter,
and I'll say,
"Livestreaming right now."
It'll be like an advertisement
here.
(chips clicking)
- There we go, we got that.
Now, we should be good.
(chips clicking)
-Wait...
What's happening?
- Yo these Davids, they
put some chips in the pot.
Look at these guys.
- [Chris] Eldridge
raised with his Queens,
got called by Baker
and bad news for
Baker, he hit his Jack.
- [Joe] That's very bad news.
He said nobody ever
believes he has it,
well he's got it now but
it ain't good enough.
This is a great
board for two Queens.
-Do you need some Chapstick?
What?
- Do you need some Chapstick?
- [Joe] That would have been a
way less interesting Bible story
David versus David.
- What do you think Sam flew
all the way from New York for?
Just to play in this game
when he heard what's going on.
- I was actually, I
was in California at
the time, actually.
- [Eldridge] Well
you flew really far.
- I was excited too.
- [Joe] He heard they
were gonna be giving away
free WiFi passwords, couldn't
pass up the extra EB.
- You flew all the way
in from California?
- Well I'm headed
to New York anyway,
and I have other people
here I want to see,
but this seemed exciting.
I've never, you guys, you know,
are always on stuff like this.
- [Eldridge] Have
you ever won 20,000
in a poker game before?
-Umm...
- In a tournament, I've
won more than that.
- In a cash game?
Because I think you're
gonna win like 20,000 today.
- [Ganzfried] What's that?
That would be cool.
- I think you're gonna break
records, personal records.
- [Ganzfried] I've never won
that much in a cash game, no.
(laughing)
- [Joe] And I guess from you
say about Eldridge's game,
this could be a call here.
- [Chris] For the same
reason that we saw earlier
Tilly call him off.
He's a great player
capable of almost anything.
- [Joe] Against a guy
I know nothing about,
he triple-barrels me, I'm
probably gonna let this go.
- I call.
- [Joe] Uh oh!
- Two pair?
- [Joe] Yikes!
- [Chris] Uh, excuse
me, we need more chips.
- [Joe] But we just
brought more chips.
- [Chris] I know, I'm aware.
- [Joe] But we were just
here like a second ago.
- [Chris] I need more again.
- [Joe] The same guy?
- [Chris] Uh, yeah.
Seat seven, more chips please.
- Matt Glantz, ladies and
gentlemen,
you can follow him
at @Glantz Twitter.
- [Joe] I wouldn't,
Trump supporter.
-Straddle
I know, baffling.
- [Chris] Is that a thing now?
We're just putting our
Twitter names on our shirts?
Is that a thing now?
- [Joe] I've got a
shirt that says @Stapes
on the back, actually.
I feel really embarrassed
to wear it, but I have one.
- [Chris] At least it's on
the back so you don't have
to constantly be looking at it.
- [Joe] It's also really
hard to point at it.
- [Glantz] And when Jen
retweets me, I say #winning.
(laughs)
Remember?
-You go # what?
Remember that?
-Winning?
-Nah!
You liked it.
- [Tilly] Oh, yeah,
I probably did yeah.
- [Glantz] Unbearable.
- [Tilly] I like when other
people say clever things,
because then I'm lazy.
- [Chris] Ganzfried makes
it 325, suited King-Queen.
He's being ganged up
on by Team Tilly-Laak.
They both call.
- Oh my god, I never
saw that before.
The Hot Seat thing,
that's pretty cool.
Did you see that?
That's new.
That logo on the
screen right here.
-Oh, right.  Yeah.
- [Joe] Oh, so
there's a satellite
for the Poker Night
in America cash game
happening right now?
- [Chris] No, Stapes, stay.
Stay where you're at, we need
you for the rest of the show.
[Joe] Ganzfried...
Bets his flush draw.
[Phil] I gotta go.  I want to
play in
the tournament anyways so...
- [Chris] Tilly with
a pair of eights.
- [Joe] She got into big
trouble in
the first hand of the show
with a pair of eights.
-Oh, I see.
- [Laak] I love
doing this though.
I wish that the
tournament was yesterday.
-Right
Three tough players left.
- [Joe] And she's
getting into more now.
- Yeah, I mean, probably
the three stronger
-Yeah?
as far as sit and go.
Kid in the black hat
is definately the strong...
- [Joe] Big trouble!
-Is the time working out?
That is not a call a top
pair, that is a raise.
- As far as how long
the satellite's going?
-Good.
They're getting close?
- [Joe] Phil's gotta
call his over pair now.
If I'm Ganzfried, two
overs and a flush draw,
I might want to try to
take this down right now,
but I also might not want
to risk all the money
I've already won.
(whining) Why is poker so hard?
- [Chris] And you're
gonna get to see the turn.
- [Eldridge] This is a
great, great opportunity.
- [Chris] Now there's the call.
-Awesome
-Cool
[Chris] Oh, well look at there.
- [Joe] That's actually a
pretty dirty card to hit.
- He's doing us a favor
by just filling the seat
until we have someone coming in.
Because he's gonna play
this all day tomorrow.
- [Joe] Ganzfried
obviously out in front now,
and it shouldn't look
like that bad of a card
and Phil just moves in!
- All in.
- You put them all in, Phil?
- I don't know.
I really don't know
what I'm doing.
- [Glantz] This is behind
the line, this right here,
so do you want that too?
- I don't know, whatever
the casino rules are.
I don't even know.
I don't know what
I'm doing today,
I don't know why I'm here.
I don't know.
- How much?
That's bad news when The
Computer
says, "How much?".
- [Joe] I don't think Ganfried
ever
folds here
- 8,000.
but this is obviously
a serious decision.
For a guy who only
bought in for 5k,
this is a lot of money.
- [Chris] Absolutely.
- [Ganzfried] All in.
- [Chris] Alright, that's
what you're supposed to do.
Computer says all in.
- That looked like a good
flop for my hand but...
- [Joe] Goodbye, Jennifer.
- Do you have a King?
- Alright, let's see
them, turn them up.
- [Joe] And goodbye, Phil.
You are drawing dead.
- I have a very thin chance
of winning this hand.
- Wow, you must have...
- What?
- You should have
raised the flop.
- I was just hoping he
didn't have King-Queen
or Ace-King of Diamonds,
but I ran into it.
Alright, you got
me covered, right?
(jazzy music)
- You had me beat on
the flop.
- [Chris] Wow, and Ganzfried
is absolutely crushing, whew!
When we come back,
we'll find out
if Tilly and Philly can
stay out of each other's way
or if this is bound to be a
really awkward flight home,
after the break.
- If I got a tattoo, it
would be on my right hand,
my chip-throwing hand
and it would say,
"Fold."
Because I just,
I cannot help it.
I just keep like and put
the chips out there.
- Welcome back to
Poker Night in America
from The Rivers in Pittsburgh.
- [Laak] If I still have money,
I'll play tomorrow, yeah.
- [Glantz] If he still has
money he'll play tomorrow.
- [Laak] They might have
me wiring everything over.
This could be my last buy in.
He might...
He might loose it all...
-Right.
- [Glantz] He might
lose it all at 2550.
The whole kit and caboodle.
- Might have to restart,
go cut some lawns,
Go back to winning WPT's.
(laughing)
- [Tilly] Y'all I'm trading
out this one for these.
- Sure.
- [Joe] Baker raising his King,
Eldridge on board with Jack 10.
Glantz three-betting
pockets Queens, lady Kings.
Come on, Matt Glantz,
make Poker Night in
America great again.
He's got two Queens, it's a
terrific hand, just the best.
Everybody knows
it's the best hand,
some people like Ace
King in this spot,
not him.
Two Queens.
The best, just the best.
David Baker
four-betting Ace King.
Looks like Matt's gonna
be putting in a fifth bet
with his lady Kings.
- All in.
- [Joe] All of it.
- Can I think now?
(laughing)
- Now he's allowed to
think a different way,
because now you're
basically tapping
into the web of all humanity
that's seen this, now that you,
- I mean, you got me with
the facial, with the facial
(beeping)
before you went all in.
I really didn't think
you liked your situation,
which makes me really
think you have Ace King.
(laughing)
But do I want to risk it all
just to get my 2,000 back?
That's the question.
- He's the best.
That's why he wins all
the money, you know?
Even though he's down.
- He has Ace King, right?
For sure.
He's like a fishing bobber.
He'll just pop back up.
- You want me to check?
Can I check for him?
- Can I wait 30 minutes and
then see what the feed is?
- We're getting close,
so you only have to
wait a couple more.
- [Chris] He didn't
want to, but he folds.
- [Joe] I think a lot of
people at home are gonna go,
"No, no!"
But seriously, flipping for
25k?  I can't blame the guy.
- [Chris] Instead
he's just lost 2,000.
-That's right. (laughing)
-Right, I mean...
it sounds ridiculous,
but that's a lot better
than getting stacked again,
after the second time you
were already stacked earlier.
- Are you a bot?
- He invented a no-limit,
heads-up machine.
The first one, yeah.
- Can you take like, your hand
off,
your skin off
like...like Terminator?
Can we see?
- It's only for
heads-up is the bot, so...
I can...
- She was thinking like,
are you like Terminator?
Can you peel your skin off and
reveal your inner workings?
- [Harman] Did you
see Terminator?
Have you ever seen Terminator?
-The Terminator?
- The original one.
- I don't even,
like ABC Go maybe.
- [Harman] With
Arnold Schwarzenegger?
-Yeah
- What he just
peeled off his skin
and was a robot under?
That would be so cool if
I played the whole day
and at the end of the
session, I'm just like,
- That would be really good.
-That would be really cool.
- Send it David, no one to call.
Just send it.
Blind.
(laughing)
- Don't give him ideas.
No leading the witness
in a multi-handed pot, ya know?
- Guys, no one can call, right?
Yeah, I like this 300.
Why are you talking him into
that?
Send it.
Don't even make it like
1,500 just send it.
The whole thing.
(laughter)
-It's so rare anybody calls.
- I protest!
I think you should only
make these comments
if it's heads-up.
- [Joe] Oh come on, Phil.
He's not being serious, is he?
- I think he should have
a one round penalty.
- Because I personally
like this $300 I have out there.
(laughing)
- [Glantz] Aw, he
didn't send it.
He didn't do what I said.
- [Joe] That is a big re-raise.
Guy folds Queens pre-flop and
then makes a 3,300 Queen Jack?
- My substandard hand.
- All in.
(laughing)
-Oh, my God!
-Oh, no.
- [Joe] We've got another
raise on our hands,
this one more standard
like tequila versus Jaeger.
- Yes!
-Ten-nine?
-Queen-jack?
-King?
(laughing)
- Like this is fun and
sick and wrong, you know?
(sighing)
-We all miss.
- [Joe] Seven's holding.
- We wouldn't do a
pass or flop anyway.
Everyone misses.
- Hold on, wait, which
way, hold on wait!
Dealer, dealer, dealer
I want to be the first to see!
- I'm not gonna watch.
I'm just gonna watch Jen's face.
Because she'll tell me
whether I win or lose.
- Wait, when you drop the card,
do you flip or which way?
I want to be...
It goes this way?
Hold on.
No, just do you natural thing,
I just want to be the
first one to see the deck.
(laughing)
The world's gonna see.
- No don't say what it is!
- [Harman] Phil, just
have him put it face down
and you can sweat it.
- No, that's fine.
I don't want to
interrupt the energy,
just do whatever you're doing.
I just want to see it first.
That's all I want.
- [Joe] Love him.
- I'm actually at peace with it.
It's such a wide, it's an
easy flip, anyone can win.
- It's gonna be the Jack
of Hearts, I'm not worried.
- [Tilly] No, it's gonna
be the four of Hearts.
Four of hearts.
- [Glantz] Let David squeeze it.
- [Joe] Nope.
- [Laak] Ok, good job.
- [Joe] Loses the
flip, says good job.
I like it a Laak.
- [Chris] So a double
up for David Baker,
he doesn't have to go get
more chips from the cage.
He's just getting
them from Phil Laak.
- Thank God I went all in free,
I would have never
won this hand.
(laughing)
-Five, six.  That's true.
- [Chris] Closed captioning
is brought to you
as a public service by
Poker Night in America.
As we hit pause for Day 1,
wow, Sam Ganzfried.
$22,000 in profit so far,
his first trip to
Poker Night in America.
- [Joe] I wonder it he's
gonna lock it up now.
$22,000 will buy you
a lot of knit coin.
- Well, being at the same table
seems a little unlucky
for Philly and Tilly.
- Well the good news
is they don't have
to listen to each
other's bad beat stories
when they get home.
It's like, "Uh, I know...
"I was there."
- Right?
Next time we're gonna be
joined by the first ever winner
of the Hot Seat sit and go.
- That sounds like an absolute
slam-dunk product tie-in
for my Stapes brand hot sauce,
which also produces a
Hot Seat sit and go.
- Man.
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- That would be so cool
if I played the whole day
and at the end of the
session I'm just like,
- That would be good.
Yep, I'm a...
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