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- [Voiceover] From Rams Head Center Stage at Maryland Live,
this is Poker Night in America.
(music)
- Welcome to Poker Night in America.
I'm your host, Chris Hanson.
Tonight we continue our cash games series
in the Rams Head Center Stage at Maryland Live.
We've got some notable faces at the table,
including Phil Hellmuth, Greg Merson,
and then some guy named Dumpster Joe.
It must be trashed day, because all this guy has been doing
is collecting.
Let's take a look at the chip counts.
Day one chip stacks, continuing on here.
Two winners, and a bunch of losers thus far.
Tom Schneider and local Joe Butts have been dominating
the table thus far here in Maryland.
- [Joe] That's a hard decision to make with 1,800
in front of you.
- [Chris] And that is Dumpster Joe Butts sitting just
to the left of Phil Hellmuth. - Oh my god, Joe.
Are you commenting on poker play now, too?
- No. - It's one thing to listen to
you make fun of me every hand, it's another
thing if you want enter our arena.
Here, we'll put 2,000 up on the side.
Here, we'll play the hand blind.
Let's gamble a little bit. - I'm sure you'd like
to gamble. - Alright. Whatever. [bleeps].
- I'm not a gambler, I'm a poker player.
- Alright.
- [Robert] I'm more of a gambler.
(laughing)
- [Tom] I'm not a poker player, I've proven that.
- [Joe] I'm not a poker player, I'm a gambler.
- I have proven that I am not a poker player.
- [Phil] No, listen, Joe.
I don't mind you making fun of me, and just coming after me
for no reason - I wasn't making fun of you. I was just asking you.
- Oh, you're not going to let me talk at all?
Well, go ahead. When you're done, let me talk.
- I'm sorry. - I don't mind you
trying to make fun of me and all this little, all these
little games, but please don't comment on poker.
- I didn't comment on poker.
I commented on the $1,800 stack.
It's kind of hard to fold with a top pair, isn't it?
1,800 bucks? - Nope.
- Alright.
- [Phil H.] Now, see, you're wrong again, too.
I didn't have 1,800 bucks. - [Joe] I didn't say I was
right. I didn't say I was right.
- You seem like a nice guy, Joe, but--
- I am a nice guy. - you don't have to attack me.
- I am a nice guy, sir, and I am allowed
to say whatever I would like to say.
I was not offensive.
- [Chris] Well, it's nice to see that Phil Hellmuth
and Dumpster Joe have a nice relationship budding here.
- I got some nice ones I might break out.
- [Chris] Schneider with absolutely nothing fires 1,500
on the turn. - [Greg] I just threw them on.
- When you get a little older, you get the ones where
you have, like, the reader part on the bottom.
- Check blind, sir. - [Robert] The line
in the middle, the magic line.
- [Tom] Let's see if the spade comes out there.
- [Phil H.] So I can see my cards down here.
- Oh, okay.
- I'm just tired, and these bright lights, man.
I'm cracking under the pressure.
- [Chris] And Schneider's going to take one more
swing at this pot.
- I call.
- [Chris] And the correct call, from Dumpster Joe.
- I think mine might be 800.
- I might have you topped.
- [Chris] Interesting that Tom Schneider
showed his bluff there.
- Dump dumpy.
- [Greg Where are you from?
- Phoenix. - [Greg] Ah.
- They have this tournament, the Arizona State Championships.
It's kind of cool - [Russell] That's a good one.
1K buy in, one million guaranteed prize pool, Greggy.
- [Robert] And you can play each starting day.
There's like three starting days.
All that.
- [Brian] Greg you won, like, eight million.
One million guaranteed is not getting him out of bed.
Yeah, what is this?
- [Phil H.] Yeah, Greggy won eight million,
he's like, one million guaranteed? Whatever.
- [Tom] Yeah, what's first place?
- [Brian] He's like, yeah, if I'm guaranteed to win
the entire prize pool, maybe I'll play. - [Tom] Yeah.
- [Robert] Can we just play for it all? Put it together?
- Yeah, right, put it together, yeah.
(laughs)
- You guys have got me. Joe, you got me on,
you got me. - (laughs)
- [Tom] Steaming now.
(talk over each other)
- [Chris] Suited ace for Brian Hastings,
good enough for a call.
- I'm going to have to loosen up my standards
just a little bit.
It does seem hard to believe, doesn't it?
- [Phil] Yeah, Greggy came up to visit me
in the Bay Area, Robert.
- Did he?
- [Phil] I had him on the floor of the Warriors game.
Marc Gasol was at the free-throw line
with a minute left in the game, Robert.
You can't make this up.
He's at the free, he's getting ready to get a rebound,
he's looking over at Greg, like this.
- No, really? - [Greg] Yeah.
- That's pretty cool. - And then I looked at him,
cause I thought he was looking at him.
But he was talking to the owner.
So I don't know if he was doing it to me because of him
or because of me.
- [Robert] Or both. Or both - [Greg] I don't know.
- [Phil] It doesn't matter. Either way, it's really cool.
- Hang out with Phil in public, it happens to both,
- [Greg] No but it really was, - sometimes Ferguson.
- [Greg] it was a tie game, with a minute and a half
in the fourth quarter, and there.
- [Phil] And he's looking at Greg going like this.
- [Robert] That's pretty frickin' funny.
So they were playing Memphis, huh?
- [Phil] Oh, the rest of that story
- [Greg] Yeah, they were playing Memphis.
- [Chris] Russell Thomas checks his two pair back to DePalo.
- And the rest of that story, Robert.
Mike Miller comes over and says,
"Hey, nice to see you, Phil."
Shakes my hand. He's throwing the ball in
with a minute, two minutes left in the game,
and then, "Hey, nice to meet you," and then he reaches
over to shake Joe Lacob's hand, the Warriors' owner.
Joe says, "I'm not shaking your hand!"
And part of me just loved it because he's so competitive.
He's never beat Memphis.
I'm like, "Why didn't you shake his hand?"
He's like, "We never beat Memphis."
And then Joe's girlfriend is saying,
"Joe. Mike Miller's a good guy, he played for Miami.
"We like him." and Joe's like, "We never beat Memphis!"
So I like that Warrior attitude of his, you know.
- Did you buy a boat in Las Vegas, buddy?
- Nah.
- Cause I see you out there all relaxed.
- We just rented a boat. - On the lake. Yeah?
- Yeah. That lake's sick.
Yeah, that's my first time every going to it.
- You had a good time out there?
- Yeah.
- [Phil H.] I've never done it, in all these years.
- Trevor Pope was out there with Bilzerian's brother,
and they had that jet pack,
(everyone exclaims) - That thing looks so cool! - [Greg] Yeah.
- Oh, god I've always wanted to do that.
- And Trevor is like a master on it.
He can do all these tricks and stuff,
so he took my girlfriend and Chris Klodnicki's girlfriend
for rides on it.
- Did you get up?
- Nah. (laughs) Nah.
- Sir we'd have to get one with twin engines.
- I went tubing for the first time, and I got blasted.
This is a good sight for you guys to picture.
- [Chris] 1,200 from Thomas here on the river.
- It's floating in the air on this thing.
He's actually really good,
and then he's doing dolphin dives.
Like, Viffer with no shirt on, just floating in the air.
- First of all, that's a scary thought of Viffer
with no shirt, but --
- [Greg] And then him doing dolphin dives into the water.
- [Chris] Call from DePalo. - [Phil] Are you serious?
He was doing dolphin dives?
- Nice hand. - [Russell] Thanks.
- We've got more from Rams Head Center Stage
here at Maryland Live when we return.
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- Welcome back to Poker Night in America.
Let's get back to the action.
- [Tom] Two main event winners at this table.
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- [Greg] We chopped. - Chopped and lost.
- I mean, how amazing is that?
- It's always if you chop and win, I won.
If you chop and lost, I chopped.
- Well, yeah, cause I chopped the 25, the PCA.
- [Brian] He had two eight, I had two five.
- [Greg] But everyone's always like, "You got second."
I'm like, "No. I chopped."
- He had two eight, I had two five, so we agreed
on even chop, but he gets the trophy.
- Yeah. Oh you didn't even run the board?
- No.
- [Greg] What? That's stupid.
- [Russell] No, no, no. He had 2.8 million. - [Brian] I had 2.5.
- [Russell] Charter had 2.8.
(talk over each other)
- Yeah. Almost even, yeah.
- [Greg] Oh, cool. Okay. I see what you're saying.
- [Brian] But he got the trophy.
- [Greg] Oh, I thought he was like.
- [Russell] Two eights verse two fives, and then we chopped.
- [Chris] Tom Schneider picks up a flush draw on the turn.
- [Brian] Picture because he had the jersey on, and I thought that--
- [Chris] DePalo is all in.
- [Greg] I didn't do it every-- - Once or twice?
- Twice is fine. Yeah, you got anything yet?
- [DePalo] I do.
- [Tom] Alright, let's turn 'em up.
- [DePalo] Yeah, Yeah, of course.
- [DePalo] Oh, well that sucks. (laughs)
- Can I bet on Tom to scoop this?
- [DePalo] Thanks, Greg.
I mean, you could vote for the little guy.
Vote for the little guy.
Alright, that's good. I'm alive.
I'm alive.
- [Tom] Nice hand. - Thank you.
- [Chris] Just like that, Phil calls you to double up.
- Nice hand, Phil. - [DePalo] Thank you.
Yeah, Greg. What now, huh?
- I'm not rooting against you.
- [DePalo] Come on, Greg. (laughs)
You should have seen me yesterday, man.
I was calling with nothing.
This is tighter play today.
- [Tom] Oh, my goodness.
- [Chris] I wanna see more of Phil Hellmuth and Dumpster Joe
going at one another. Am I alone in that fact?
- [DePalo] Breathing life back into me.
CPR. - [Chris] Queen for Hastings.
- [Robert] You are the doctor.
- [DePalo] I know, it's funny.
It's an academic doctorate, but I'm still a paramedic,
so I guess that counts. Consultology.
- [Tom] Tonsil-tology? - [DePalo] Counsultology, you like that?
- Is that helping remove people's tonsils?
- Not tonsil-tology, consultology. Come on.
If you're going to say it on national TV,
you gotta say it right. Consutology.
- [Tom] Consult?
- [DePalo] ology.
- So that's what you're a doctor of?
- It's a health care IT consulting firm.
- [Chris] My grandfather was also a consultolo,
No, he wasn't. - [Tom] You got a hand?
- [Joe] I'm sorry.
- [Tom] No? - [Chris] 800 is the bet
from Merson. - [Tom] Do you want a hand?
You wish you had a hand. - [Chris] Back to Hastings.
- I do too. I feel so naked without a hand.
One more double up before I get on the plane.
That's all I'm looking for.
- [Robert] (laughs) Just one more?
- [Joe] BWI's closed down, you're going on a plane,
you said? Oh yeah, don't worry about that.
- [Tom] Don't worry about that? - [Joe] Yeah.
(talk over each other)
- He's been away from the table about half the time
he's been here, too, but he's needling you
for not going.
- You know what they call that? A cheese walk.
- [DePalo] Yeah, no kidding.
(talk over each other)
- Talking on the phone, and.
- [Chris] Merson's pressure is unrelenting here,
but Hastings is going nowhere.
- [Joe] Where you flying to sir?
Tom, where are you flying to?
- Phoenix. - [Joe] Oh, Phoenix.
- [Chris] Hastings checks. 5,500, the bet from Merson
with ace high.
- Definitally is now.
- [Robert] What are you trying to do, oh my--
- [Chris] And Brian Hastings has to let the hand go.
Keeping the pressure up worked in that hand for Greg Merson.
- They're all much better than me now.
Cause I travel so much, I don't get to just
play on the computer 70 hours a week,
and like dedicate my life to it.
So I can't beat 'em.
- [Chris] Williamson raises it to 250.
Gets a call from Joe Butts.
- I'm going to sleep pretty well tonight, I do know that.
- [Brian] Truth to that!
- [Tom] I don't think the people next to me
are going to enjoy the snoring.
- Red Bull will take care of that for you.
Get a couple Red Bulls before you go over.
- [Brian] Thanks for the beer, Robert.
- [Tom] Thank you, Robert. - [Robert] You're welcome.
You betcha. A pleasure, gentlemen, a pleasure.
- [Russell] He was playing 10, 20 six max in January,
- [Chris] The turns another jack.
- [Russell] Yeah, this year. - [Greg] Yeah, yeah.
I mean he's like one of the few guys,
- [Chris] Alright guys, let's get the action going.
Here we go, 400 the bet.
- [Greg] Cause even the guys that play super big,
like Galfond and Ben. They don't even play no limit.
Dude, even the really good players,
like Ike and those guys, when they play six max.
They're not enough even that good.
(Robert groans)
- [Chris] Let me interpret in case you don't
speak Robert Williamson III, that sound
means, "Crap."
- Alright, I'm all in.
- [Dealer] All in.
- [Robert] Once or twice? - What did we do last time, twice?
- [Robert]Twice. - Twice is good.
- [Chris] All in and a call.
And we will run the river twice.
We have seen a bunch of 10K plus pots here
tonight, on Poker Night in America.
- [Russell] Got some chope outs.
- [Chris] And so far, it's been Dumpster Joe's way every hand
he's been involved in.
- Chop outs. - Scoop outs too.
- King, eight, queen for a-- - [Joe] Deuce.
- [Tom] Put up the fifth and you've got a chop out.
- Bing! Now one more. Now one more.
- He's chopping at one point. - [Robert] Now one more!
- A deuce!
- You don't want a queen? Why don't you call for the queen?
- Queen? Sorry, geez. I forgot. Yeah, I could, Queen!
- [Tom] Yeah, you just keep calling for chops.
- There you go.
- Now you figure all that out, now you have a math problem.
- [Chris] Don't go anywhere, there's more poker yet to come.
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I'm Chris Hansen. We return to the felt right now.
- They did tell us your name was Dump Truck, that's why. - I know.
There's not much difference between a dump truck
and a dumpster truck, is there?
- (laughs) I don't know.
- Dumpster truck, the back of it comes off.
Dump truck, stays on the truck.
- Is that what it is? - Yeah.
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- My straddle. Alright.
I'm 5,000 behind, if anyone cares.
I'm still 5,000 behind if people don't care.
- [Joe] Seems like you don't know why I didn't be the river,
sir, I will let you know later.
- [Russell] You're a nice guy.
- Yeah, I am a very nice guy. Phil will tell you
I'm a nice guy. - [Russell] I believe you. - Greg you've confirmed it.
- [DePalo] Nothing but compliments.
- I'll tell you one thing, he might be a nice guy,
that's been confirmed, but he's not gonna
give you any money.
(laughter)
If he had the nuts, it would've been a nice size
bet in there for you to pay off.
- Alright, let's go.
- [DePalo] Alright.
- You know what, Phil? I'm going to check in the dark.
- Alright, I'll probably bet you, though.
- [Tom] I know, go ahead. Bet in the dark.
- No, I can't. I'm not that good.
- [Joe] There's a couple people sitting here that
I don't want to give any money too, that's all.
- He checked already.
- I thought he was going to check raise you there.
- Sir? I will give them to you,
because I know they are subject to come back.
You will definitely not marry those chips if you get 'em.
- I don't know what you're talking about, save some for you?
He hasn't lost a pot yet. He hasn't lost a pot yet.
He just says super coolers and straights. Good Lord.
And he moved into me one time.
I've just been waiting for, like, three hours.
Just patiently. Knowing what's coming.
But it hasn't happened yet.
- Joe, what do you think about that?
- I love it.
- I'm just trying to get some banter going.
- [Joe] We have nothing but time. Keep waiting, sir.
And see what happens. (laughs)
- It works for him.
- [Joe] And when we get done we'll go have a little drink.
- I bet a lot of money he's going to fold that hand
within 20 seconds.
- 20 seconds, I'll take the bet on that? How much?
- Alright, I guess it has to be a minute.
(all laugh)
I would've won, see?
- [Tom] You would've won.
Phil's always right. Show the bluff.
If you have a bluff,
- [Joe] I bet a hundred dollars
- Hundred dollars, hundred dollars.
- I'll give you a quarter if you have a bluff.
- Hundred bucks, right there. I bet it was the winning hand.
Anybody want some?
- [Russell] Match it, oh my god.
- [Tom] I'll give you a quarter if you show a bluff. - [DePalo] Hundred dollars!
- [Robert]Just throw 100 dollars down.
- [Phil] Wait, wait, you bet he had the winner?
Okay, I'll bet he didn't.
- Wait, that's my hundred to show the hand.
- [Phil H.] We have a side bet. - [Tom] They have a side bet.
- I gotta make money off this first.
- No because it's going to be on the live stream.
- Whoever wins will give you a quarter.
- Pay me for the hand.
- They're betting, they have a side bet.
- Thank you. The minute that he said out loud,
"I want you to fold, haha," I was like,
God, that's king and queen. That's stone nuts.
- [Greg] You live in San Antionio?
- [Robert] I don't. - [Tom] He lives in Phoenix.
(talk over each other)
- Phil, what country western stars do you know?
- Ah, Blake, uh -- - [Tom] Blake Shelton?
- Yeah. - [Tom] Alright.
- But I think that's about it on CW.
- [Tom] That's good enough. You gotta hook me up there.
- [Phil] He was in Oakland, and I brought Jim Harbaugh,
who's a country music guy backstage,
and Blake had a good time with us.
He's a good guy. Oh, I also met Miranda Lambert.
- I love Miranda Lambert.
- Now, they're married, yeah.
She was funny. I said, "Are you going out with Blake?"
And she said, "Yeah," she said --
- [Tom] When was this, a long time ago?
- Yeah, a few years back.
- [Tom] Yeah, they're married.
- Right. And so, she said, "That sum gun better marry me
"because I just bought the farm right next to his."
She was really funny. She was having a good time.
- [Tom] Yeah, she's very funny.
She's got an amazing voice. She's my favorite female singer.
- Miranda Lambert? - [Tom] Yeah.
- Yeah, she's very good. She's very good.
- [Phil H.] But she's pretty funny, just having a good time.
- [Tom] I have a song for Blake Shelton.
- [Brian] Who are you talking about?
- Blake Shelton. - [Brian] Oh I don't know.
- [Tom] I want to go on the Voice and have him be my coach.
- [Brian] I don't know the first thing about country music.
- [Tom] You can get me on that, Phil, I'm sure.
Robert probably knows some people in country music.
- I respect someone who has a song about stealing
a parking space, though.
- No, it's something about,
it's like a really funny country song.
- [Christ] I'm just throwing this out there,
but I think the song your thinking of, Phil, is Some Beach.
- We got a pot here?
- [Chris] One of his very first big hits for Blake Shelton.
Back to the poker, turn is a three.
Earlier tonight we saw Greg Merson keep betting,
and it was enough to win him a hand
when he had nothing.
- [Phil] The name of the song is Some Beach.
- [Chris] There you go, Phil Hellmuth.
- And the video is really clever.
- [Chris] That was actually Blake Shelton
when he had a mullet, in case you have to know.
- Some, but he says it like, "son of a,"
- [Tom] Yeah, right. - [Phil] Sum beach.
- [Chris] Nothing for Merson on the river,
will he be betting again, trying to get
another opponent to fold the winning hand?
- It wasn't actually the poker play (laughs).
- [Phil H.] He won the *** and then picked up kings.
- [Chris] He checks.
He did it earlier to Brian Hastings,
and now Robert Williamson III is in the same position.
As we wrap up day one here at Maryland Live,
Russell Thomas got himself on the green side.
Tom Schneider and Joe Butts were already there.
And Phil DePalo also get himself up a thousand bucks
with some pretty solid play here on Poker Night in America.
(talk over each other)
- When we come back, it's part two of our trip
to the city that has been called the Hollywood
for ugly people. Stick around.
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- Hello, I'm Phil Hellmuth. We're filming
Poker Night in America here in DC.
Poker is a very presidential game.
I'm not sure that Washington played,
but a lot of other presidents did play in the White House.
- Well, I mean, within a mile of this Capitol
on any given night of the week,
there's probably dozens of poker games going on.
- You know, members of the staff on the Hill, Capitol Hill,
and many elected officials play poker.
- Members of Congress, other lobbyists
from other industries, and even the guys
who are sweeping the floors here.
- There are a fair number of Congressmen, late at night,
who, you know we get some poker chips, and we play.
Big night, you might win 20,
and a bad night, you might lose 20.
- To me, the theme of Poker Night in America in DC
is Poker is Presidential.
Now I'm about to walk into a game inside the Beltway.
(Cheers and greetings)
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- The old hem and haw and reraise? Is that what's coming?
I don't know. I reraise.
- This is an institution of power.
And people in power like to play poker.
The two go together. Ulysses S. Grant died broke
in part because he was a terrible poker player.
Warren G. Harding played poker in the White House
twice a week. Richard Nixon financed his first run
for Congress with money he won playing poker in the Navy.
This is a city that loves its poker
and has a rich tradition of it.
When you combine that with power and energy
and lots of alpha males running around,
you get some juicy stuff going on.
- These guys are playing poker here, I mean they have real hands.
You told me this was going to be an easy game to beat.
What happened? They're all good. I mean, come on.
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