- [Hanson] From Choctaw
Resort in Durant, Oklahoma,
this is Poker Night in America.
(jazzy music)
Welcome back to Choctaw Resort,
tonight's stop on
Poker Night in America.
I am Chris Hanson.
Say hello to America's
sweetheart, Joe Stapleton.
- Hello. Coming up
on tonight's show,
Jim Carroll-Top continues
his needly antics,
- I am the luckiest and
unluckiest guy I know.
- [Stapleton] And Phil Hellmuth
runs like Phil Hellmuth.
- [Hanson] Yeah, if you
like seeing Phil Hellmuth
in pain, well then this
is the episode for you.
Day one continues
here at Choctaw.
Big winner so far is Cate Hall,
she's up $7,300.
Brand new players
to the table are
Kage Gardner in seat 3,
and in seat 7 George Ritacco.
- [Stapleton] Man, cage
gardening sounds like the
most boring sport ever.
- Married 26 years.
- Somehow.
- Managed to be married 26 years
and be a poker player?
- That's not an easy feat.
I can tell you right now.
- It means you have to win.
- Winning is definitely helpful.
- [Dealer] Raise to 150.
- Just so used to
you three-betting me.
- I'll do it four.
- [Hanson] Jim Carroll
wakes up with kings.
- 425.
- Yes.
- 950.
- I feel like we should
play this one just...
- [Hanson] Cate Hall
will get out of the way.
- I raise to get rid
of her and keep you in.
If I win a big pot
with aces, I apologize.
- [Stapleton] If he sucks
out with ace-queen,
he also apologizes.
- Alright, he's got aces,
give me two pair on the flop.
- [Stapleton] Ace-deuce-deuce
would not
be a good two pair
for you, Mr. Carroll.
- I think you have
something too this time.
I think we both have hands.
We both have good hands.
- I think I'm gonna
check to you, okay?
- Really?
- I better check.
- [Stapleton] Phil checks
behind kings holding.
Not anymore!
Check when you're ahead,
bet when you're behind.
Can't-miss strategy.
- [Hanson] 500 and a call.
- [Stapleton] He does have
diamonds as outs,
as well as a king.
- [Hanson] And in case
you're wondering,
Phil Hellmuth has been missing
from the table for some time
leading up to this hand.
He was playing the claw
machine in the arcade.
- [Carroll] Don't make it
over 5,000, okay?
- [Stapleton] I bet $5,001.
- Just 1,500.
- You wait to the river,
then you do a oversize bet.
- [Stapleton] Uhh... What? That
was not an oversize bet.
- [Hanson] No, it
was half the pot.
I think that's very appropriate.
- Probably got a
frickin' set of aces.
- [Hanson] But I'm
not Jim Carroll.
- I'm gonna put you on jacks.
- [Stapleton] Yeah, I
do not think Phil
plays jacks that way.
- [Hellmuth] Ace-queen.
- Aw, damn.
- Wow, got lucky on him.
I thought maybe
you had a big hand.
Good check back on the flop.
- Yep, shouldn't have checked.
- It wasn't until
I re-raised you
and looked in your eyes
that I knew you were strong.
You made the re-raise,
when I re-raised
and I looked in
your eyes, I'm like,
"Alright, he has tens."
I didn't think kings, though.
- [Hanson] Don't you know you're
never supposed to let
Phil look directly
into your eyes?
Everyone knows that.
They're so cute at this age.
- [Brunson] He's gonna read your
soul again if you do.
- [Stapleton] I don't know
how you guys got
Ritacco's avatar picture with
his glasses half on his face,
but it is amazing.
He looks like he's in
the middle of a tagline
at the intro to CSI: Miami.
- Wooow!
- Alright, I call.
Give me my cards back.
- [Stapleton] So pretty much
everybody dominated here,
except for Jim Carroll.
He's got the best hand for now,
but Dennis has flopped
an up and down draw.
- 500. You both missed
the flop, didn't ya?
But you're gonna call hoping
you can suck out
against me anyway.
- Yep, that's it exactly.
- That's a raise, sir.
- Sorry. I screwed up.
- I'm lookin'. Here,
you guys look first.
Oh, darn. I'm gonna call.
- [Hanson] Call from Carroll.
- [Stapleton] He's calling
with the best hand
but it's very
difficult to proceed
in this hand if your
opponent continues to bet,
unless you turn the nuts.
- You play a little fast
against me, Tom, sometimes.
- Me?
- Yeah, in tournaments.
Like when I raise
with ace-deuce-four
and you're somehow
in there with like
the ace-five-ten-jack.
- What are you talking about?
Is this another hand
from like 13 years ago?
- [Hanson] 1,300, the bet from
Carroll.
- [Brunson] Okay, sorry.
- That stud pot was brutal,
I would never have
played deuce-three-four.
- I got it wrong.
- Would never have
played deuce-three-four.
- [Stapleton] Unlikely to fold
now.
- That was last year.
- [Stapleton] Even more
unlikelier. Is that a word?
- Dealer, I'm
thinking of a card.
- I finally picked up jacks
and you came after me
from deuce-three-four
to stud final deal.
- [Carroll] I am
thinking of a card.
That was not the card.
- [Stapleton] Carroll no
longer has the nuts.
Not sure how worried I would be
about a full house here, though.
Carroll bets 2,000 to
a pot of almost 6,000.
Seems reasonable.
- [Dealer] 2,000.
- You're playing the
main event, aren't you?
- This's all I got left, Dennis.
- No, I already got it counted.
- He didn't have an
exact count, sir.
- Yeah I did.
- How much?
- [Stapleton] Prove it!
- Alright.
- [Stapleton] I'm not gonna play
your games, okay?
- Show bluff.
- Show the bluff!
- Show the bluff! Go for it.
- Alright, here's my bluff.
- Nice bluff!
- [Stapleton] I'm not really
sure he knows what bluff means.
- I'll tell you one thing,
you pick up some
mean blind hands.
- That was blind, wasn't it?
- Ace-queen,
ace-queen, what else?
- Chris, I'm playing
this one blind.
Or am I?
- [Hellmuth] There's queens,
too? Jeez!
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[Hanson] Thanks for coming
back to Poker Night in America,
where tonight we are at Choctaw
Resort in Durant,
Oook-lahoma!
Back to the cash game.
- Let's play my big blind
blind then, alright?
Who wants a piece
of me? Come on!
- [Hanson] Choctaw
about an hour or so
just northeast of
Dallas into Oklahoma.
- [Stapleton] I thought you
said this was in Oklahoma?
- [Hanson] We are in
Oklahoma, Dallas is in Texas.
We're real close to the border.
- Let's build a pot.
- [Hanson] Kings for Carroll,
now he says he's
playing this hand blind.
I'm starting to wonder if
he's looking at more hands
quickly that we
don't see with like
some sleight of
hand or something.
- There's my buddy.
- Oh, raise, here he comes.
- [Stapleton] Just to run
this hot in general,
let alone during your blind
hands is pretty bizarre.
- [Hanson] Right?
- Okay, you want me to go first?
- Sure.
- Let me see what
the flop is first.
- Bet 500 in the dark.
- [Stapleton] Well this is
lookin like a Phil kind of flop.
- I'm hoping that's
my kind of flop.
I'm gonna look at this one here.
- That's fair.
- [Stapleton] Well if he
didn't look before,
he's certainly selling it now.
- [Hanson] He's
loving what he saw.
- Check.
- Thirteen.
- [Hanson] Especially with
somebody betting into him.
- I'm gonna look
at the other one.
- [Stapleton] This looks like
a good spot for a raise,
I think, with an over pair.
- Raise.
- Okay, I won't fold.
What do you raise?
- 13, 13 I snub.
- I don't know what you has now.
- [Stapleton] Phil insta-calls.
- [Hanson] We're
just over 3,000 now.
- 1,750 more?
This jack's good?
- [Carroll] If I had
one they would be.
Check.
- [Stapleton] Queen changes
nothing.
- [Carroll] Bet 12
and I snap call.
Is that binding?
- [Stapleton] I don't see
Phil betting this again.
- I'm supposed to pull
the trigger and move it.
I guess I'll check.
- You will take the free river.
- [Stapleton] And, yep,
brick-brick for Phil.
- What'd you say about Jacks?
(laughs)
Wanna see my blind hand?
- Come on, why can't
I hit a card? Jesus.
I have all the outs, why
can't I hit one against him?
He's given me the whole stack.
(bleep)
I feel like I've been
pretty unlucky so far.
- You get a heart draw and
a foot, a straight draw?
(cough)
- It's just you and me?
- [Hanson] Carroll raises
to 225 with fours.
Todd Brunson calls.
- I check.
- [Stapleton] So Carroll
again with the best hand,
Brunson up and down.
- Yeah, let's pull
'em back over here
so they can see what they are
and then I can
see what they are.
- [Stapleton] Brunson
decides to lead at it,
trying to build himself a pot,
not give a free card.
- I am the luckiest and
unluckiest guy I know. Call.
- [Stapleton] Does Todd bet it
again?
Nope, this time
he checks behind.
Even though this does like a
good spot to bluff the river,
Todd's in the big blind, his
range is kind of uncapped here.
He could easily have a three,
easily have a straight,
easily have a king.
- Do you bluff?
I haven't played with
you enough to know.
I'll find out. Call.
- [Stapleton] That's a great way
to indemnify yourself
against being wrong.
Go, "I just want to
see what you have."
- That's worse.
How the hell did you end up
with a four in your hand, man?
I don't like Todd
Brunson a whole lot.
- Oh, this is great.
I'm playing against the
world's greatest guy
and the world's greatest
woman, same hand.
The book says I have to bet here
but I better check, let
Phil do what he's got to.
- [Stapleton] Phil flops a boat,
somehow doesn't get bet into.
Alright, now he might
get some action!
- [Hanson] Yeah,
Carroll and Hall both
pick up a pair of eights.
- [Stapleton] Not just
any pair, top pair.
- [Hanson] Here comes my
Phil Hellmuth impersonation,
you ready?
- [Stapleton] Yep.
- [Hanson] "Yummy, yummy,
yummy!"
Well what do you think?
- [Stapleton] It's pretty
good, actually.
- [Hanson] I was working
on it all night.
- [Stapleton] Eight out of ten.
- [Hanson] Alright,
I'll take that.
- [Stapleton] Here's my Phil
Hellmuth impression.
"What am I doing, I should
have 20,000 in front of me.
Somebody might feed
me all the chips."
- [Hanson] I don't know,
I'm not buying that.
Maybe four, five tops.
- We got rid of her.
- Yeah, we got rid
of the good player.
- [Stapleton] You're like
the Russian judge.
- [Hanson] It takes a
lot to get me there.
- [Carroll] Don't think they
gave you a straight or a flush
or anything, although
you might have sucked out
and hit a ten on the river.
- [Hanson] Alright, so Phil
Hellmuth's got the boat,
he flopped it.
Jim Carroll just with
a pair of eights.
- Raise it.
- [Stapleton] I'd love to see
a real small raise here.
- All of it.
- [Stapleton] Or that.
You know it does make sense,
you know, to get
it all in there,
polarize your range,
make it seem like
you have the nuts or air.
The problem is, Phil
doesn't do a whole lot
of bluffing the river with air.
- Look me in the
eyes for a second.
Do you have a
three in your hand?
- [Stapleton] I would be very
unlikely to call in this spot.
- I don't have a
three, but so what?
I think maybe I have, like,
tens full or something,
did you ever think of that?
- Everything inside of
me says you're bluffing,
but that's a pretty damn
big raise for a bluff.
- [Stapleton] Everything inside
of me says, "I'm hungry!"
- [Stapleton] Coming up on Poker
Night in America,
we promise no more
Hellmuth impersonations.
- [Hanson] We're back
to Choctaw after this.
- Gavin I think my kids can
beat your kids up.
- No chance!
- Yeah I think they can.
- No chance.
- I would bet my
five year old can take-
- My five year old would kick
yours (bleep).
- [Stapleton] Welcome back to
Poker Night in America,
now let's get to the
cash, cash, cash.
- You're looking
this time, right?
- I'll let you know.
- [Hanson] 25-50 are the
blinds here in this game,
optional hundred
dollar straddle,
which comes under the gun.
- You want me to
look? I'll look.
- [Hanson] Hellmuth and
Phillips both share diamonds.
- I'm on the button,
I'm supposed to have
a hand here, right?
- [Gardner] Yep.
- I'm gonna check.
- [Stapleton] Checks around.
Oh, boy. Phil turns the second
nuts and he's drawing dead.
- [Dealer] 400.
- [Hanson] That was
400 and one call.
- [Stapleton] Does Dennis Phills
still own that truck dealership?
Because he is about to sell
Phil Hellmuth some undercoating.
"You know, it's a pretty
good price for this car,
"but I think you're
gonna want to pay this."
I might be the only
person in the world
who doesn't enjoy watching
Phil Hellmuth get coolered.
- Call.
- [Stapleton] "Good hand,
mine was better."
- [Phillips] Bit of a cooler.
- I don't know if I've
ever run well against you.
Even when I'm playing
like, world class poker,
I don't know if I've ever
run well against you before.
I've watched you get
away with some stuff,
but you keep getting
better every year.
But you used to beat me
four or five years ago
when I was world class.
It wasn't cause you
were a better player.
- I've never claimed to be
a better player than you.
- I call.
- I would never fold
that any other day.
- You call there, I gotta call.
- Me and Cate.
- Okay, let me watch
your face this time.
When it goes all serious,
you got a good hand.
- I remember every
time I had tens,
you called big raises on
king-jack and won every pot.
That's what I remember.
- [Stapleton] Jim Carroll
turns the nut straight.
- Depends on my position and
the person I'm playing against.
- [Stapleton] Cate Hall does hae
the redraw to the nut flush.
- [Hanson] A+ to Cate Hall on
her chip-stacking ability.
- Always had respect for
your game, you know that.
- [Hanson] I mean Dennis
has got his stack
all spread all over the place,
Cate's perfect triangle there.
- [Hellmuth] That's what I do.
- Smile.
One thousand.
- [Stapleton] So Jim Carroll has
bet about a third of the pot.
- Wow, you always have to
come over the top so much?
- You got it.
- Yes.
- [Hall] Nice hand.
- It started off
as a blind hand.
I played that really well.
Thank you for letting
me win one, okay?
- You're welcome.
- That's like a mercy win.
- I want to give you hope.
- Oh, I won a pot with
this hand earlier. 325.
- Raising.
- Alright.
This will wake me
up a little bit.
- Let's see, you've only won
like five or six hands today,
so let me try to recall
which hand it was.
- [Hanson] Phil Hellmuth
must have been up
late last night partying.
Stapes, who was he
partying with last night?
- [Stapleton] Let's see, if I
remember his Twitter correctly
it was Hugh Jackman,
Benedict Cumberbatch,
and the Hamburgler.
- [Hanson] That is
a fun foursome.
- Awfully hard to pick
up the blinds and antes
in this game, boys and girls.
- Yeah, good luck with that.
- Five players.
- I get to go first and
do the continuation bluff.
There it is.
- [Stapleton] We are five
ways to this flop
and it checks around.
Who even has the best hand?
- [Hanson] That would
be Dennis Phillips
flopping a set of fives.
- [Stapleton] And turning
a boat of fives.
- [Hanson] But maybe
more importantly,
that gives Phil Hellmuth
the second nut flush,
which is why he's
betting six hundred.
- [Dealer] Six hundred.
- [Stapleton] Smooth call from
Dennis.
- [Hanson] Phil said a
little earlier tonight
that he's never been
able to really run good
against Dennis
Phillips, and it seems
like that is continuing.
- [Stapleton] And it looks like
he
is going to fire into the abyss.
- 13, all in.
- [Hanson] 1,300, Phil is all
in.
- I call.
- King-high flush.
- Wow.
- Is this a (bleep) joke? Wow.
- Phil said he could
never get lucky
against Dennis Phillips
and it came true.
- That's the power of the mind.
Next time, I'd ask for a pony.
- [Hellmuth] Is this for real?
- Gavin I think my kids can beat
your kids up.
- No chance.
- Yeah I think they can.
- No chance.
- I would bet my 5 year old
can take your 5 year old.
- My oldest, my 5 year old
would kick yours (bleep).
- No way.
- It would kick your kids
(bleep).
Let's do it, let's set it up.
- I just don't think your 5 year
old could kick--
- And I'll tell you one thing,
if your 5 year old beats up
my 5 year old, I'm gonna beat up
you.
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Our first day of the trip
to Choctaw here in Oklahoma
is now done and Cate Hall
your big winner for the day.
- [Stapleton] Our biggest
loser, Jim Carroll.
Also, he stuck seven grand.
- I think Phil took
those beats pretty well.
- Yeah, but I have a feeling
he might want to take a break.
Besides, he's got to
return a bunch texts from
Steve Martin, Bill
Gates and the Dalai Lama.
- And next week we're
going to be joined
by an entirely new
bunch of degenerates
here at Choctaw Resort.
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- Help.
- Gonna be the dumbest call in
the history of Poker Nights.
- This one might be worse.
- Just want to tell you,
there's no more cards coming.
You won't be able to suck out.
There's no ocean.
- [Stapleton] The Dalai
Lama doesn't text,
but he does text Phil Hellmuth.
- [Hanson] (laughs)
