Live Poker Match Special!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon

Key Takeaway

Set clear boundaries early in conversations, especially around controversial topics. Phil Helmuth's quick tilt under seven minutes and Alan Keating's table confrontation at dinner show how maintaining composure and knowing when to disengage protects your mental energy and relationships.

Episode Overview

A poker tournament featuring the All-In podcast hosts (Jason, Chamath, and Friedberg) playing against professional poker players Phil Helmuth and Alan Keating at the Venetian in Las Vegas, with guest appearance by Molly Bloom. The game showcases poker strategy, personality dynamics, and entertainment value.

Full Transcript

Transcript of Live Poker Match Special!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon from All-In Podcast. Auto-generated from episode audio; may contain minor errors.

All right everybody, welcome to the first ever recorded all-in bestie invitational tournament here at the Venetian. We have three of the four besties here and then we have two of the greatest poker players in the world and Phil Helmute joining us Jason Boon Alan Keing. It's going to be an amazing show. The overunder is 7 minutes until I tilt Phil. So if you have under seven minutes over seven minutes we'll see. Set up the market. Set up the poly market now Jeff. Let's go. Let's go.

Let's go. Oh, hello. So, Jason gets the advantage and doesn't need. Yes. Are you going to comment the whole time? No. Okay. No, I'm just going to take your money table. We We've played on TV several times now. Remember Hustler, Poker Go? We've done quite a few different shows. Yeah. Poker. Glad you weren't soul reading me then. Oh, I ran over that game. Oh yeah, you killed me that game. Split the cards. Murdered. Killed you. Murdered you. Also joining us today, Jason One of the greatest cash game players of all time.

Probably the greatest cash game player right now. Uh you've won 3040 million in cash. 60. 60 now. 70. 70 now. Uh okay. $70 million. All right. And what did that idiot make it? 3,000 to go. Okay. Whose count? Call 3,000. Oh my. All right. Here we go. I'm getting pulled into the deep end already with Alan Keing. Oh, no. This is the deep end. Is this the D? I got to look at my cards here. Jamal, help me out here. How do you play that against Keing?

I'm pretty sure I'm playing this hand right. I'm sure you are. Okay. Same. That's 3,000. Oh, this is a big table. You're so far away. It is big. Like, I have to text you to talk to you. Hey, Kitty. This is This is This is maybe the biggest table I've ever filmed, though. It's a pretty great play on. It's sweet. Looks cool. I have filming at the same table on Saturday. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, you could play 14handed on it if you wanted to. Yeah. Sorry, this is this is going quick.

Are you guys going to come to the Formula One uh thing that we got set up? Yeah, I wouldn't miss it for the world. Yeah, I have an ace. No good. Yeah, I have two. Whoa. Wow. I had an ace, too. I told you it wasn't defense. Wasn't what a way to start the game. Wasn't defense. You didn't even need to read. No read. I dust. A7. Yeah. I think we're going to get one hand uh round. To the people that to the people at home that watch that hand.

I think they're like, "Wait, wait, wait. Jason lost too much." No, he didn't. It's Alan Keing. I know. Alan. How does he show up with aces? Oh, okay. Uh, you could have shipped there. How that would have the river was the worst card. Don't Don't worry. I considered it absolute worst card. I was actually You block a bunch of ace kings. I I don't know if I texted you. Uh, last week I gave a poker lesson to a couple uh generals, Air Force generals, uh, and one guy, one fell that's going to work at NASA.

Um, and we were talking. There was a there was a lady there named Blair Bigalow who um who owns a aerospace company and she had never played poker before and she started playing and it reminded me of this speech that Jenny just gave at the summit where and and Blair is actually more used to risk than most women. Um, but she was talking about how it's just so useful for it's like poker is a great tool for women to just get in and get the feel of doing risky things.

You know, it's something men have been doing since we were little boys a lot more than girls. And to save Jason, this is Jenny just words about the risk. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not saying women are scaredy-cats, but I I did think that that was what happened. Did another man bite it? Can I Can a man have a cold sore? Dude, I filmed six days last week out of seven. I'm tired. He's pushing himself to lucky I showed up. Can we get a zoom in on Phil's makeup on Phil Helm's upper lip?

We need her herpes simplex 2 on aisle four. You know what? I'm pissed off. WE GOT OH MY GOD, HE GOT TILTED ALREADY. UNDER SEVEN MINUTES. NICELY DONE. I I'm here sitting next to to Jason and they say, "Jason, would you like makeup?" Look at this guy. Does he look like I mean he's so handsome for makeup to the like an American superhero like he's an American superhero like a like let me tell you something for a bisexual man you are above average is absolutely I'm pansexual Jacob I mean sure I mean it makes total sense you can't be that good-looking and just be heads go up the blinds go up bro it was the weirdest thing for years uh like the third most popular Google search of me is is Jason gay and I was What is going on here?

I have kids. I don't I don't understand. You're wellgroomed. You take care of your body. Don't let a brother get hungry. And you're thoughtful and kind. Everything that straight men aren't. Yeah. You're thoughtful, kind, well-groomed. Well, thank you. And you're fit. Everything that heterosexual men aren't. Yeah. Guess so. I careful. I limp. Yes, madam. Be careful, kid. I limp. Man, it's uh if it was aces, you wouldn't tell me. You just do it. Good. Said it's pocket sevens and you want in for free. Let him live, my lady.

Here at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Yes. A little bonus supplemental content. The uh the suits they built are incredible. They gave us some sweets to stay and they're awesome. They're sweet. whole place is redone. Amazing. Amazing. Really beautiful. Beautiful. 11 pocket seven. Helmouth comes in with a weak 1100. Alan Keading says, "I have 10 high." Uh oh. We got one more here. Sorry. Sorry. Helmouth. Uh can you tell us when Oh, you're in the middle of a hand. I'll let you finish then.

I'll talk to you about your clothes. What you mean? I wear the same thing every day. I thought we covered that. Wow. This is this where loses it all. I have a lot of sponsors. Adidas. Is Adidas one of your sponsors? I I respect it, man. Before I had any money. I own so many expensive clothes and Homie's the opposite. He's got all the money and wears the same outfit. How do you think he has all the money? Listen, these guys, they really did for my 60th birthday.

I had to admit I'm that old. They gave me clothes that fit from wall to wall. They gave me We spent money on it. I know. And then JC took you down to some boutique and bought you some special outfit. Remember that? We walk down to some boutique in the good no Gucci ace king suited the generously pulls out his card buys you a whole outfit on top of the wardrobe he did no the very best but in fairness detail of this but you have to understand why I got them that tracksuit what I did was we were at a poker game and this website like GoFundMe had come out whatever number of years ago and I was like oh that's an interesting idea GoFundMe got 612 [cheering] in This hand in this hand or the neck I was like 612 that's pretty violent.

612 is violent. Yes. J I think the best best part of this is that it was not his birthday and there we sang him happy birthday. His birthday is a month later and there was a guest there who it was his actual birthday watching us celebrate your not birthday. That's true. That is the true sign of a hijack somebody. What do you say to your sons before you give them $60,000 worth of clothes? Are you like, "My buddy bought me a new wardrobe and I don't want it and this is for you." He said, "My buddies bought all these clothes for me.

Stupid idiots." Hold up. You guys spent 60k buying clothes. Hey, when are you going to spend 60 buying me clothes? Yeah. So, this shirt is one of the shirts you guys bought for me. Very nice. Okay. It looks like you kept some of it. It's all Saints. I mean, I do wear some of it. What happened to the bra we bought? I actually paid to wear logos. That's That's like, you know, get him. Get him. Help me. Get him. I do. I get paid to wear logos.

How much? 25. He gets paid to wear logos. There is no group without you, Jake. There just isn't. You do miss Jason in the home game. Everything's so J's the one who churns the butter. True. Someone's got to churn the butter. There's people milking the cow. We're at the home game, but Jal turns the butter. No, no. I swear to God, I'm at the home game and I see this GoFundMe page. like, "Hey, invest in our company, whatever." I was like, "I don't know. Crowdfunding, whatever." So, I'm like, I'm trying it out.

I'm like, "What should I do?" And I'm like, "Well, Phil Helmouth is wearing um a tracksuit that literally has tears in it. It's so old. It's like fraying." Yes. So, I just put up a um help fund a new tracksuit for Phil H. I took a picture of his fraying, you know, classic Adidas tracksuit. And instantly $2,000 comes in from the poker community. Wow. 50 different people are like absolutely that tracksuit smells. That is something that benefits all of us is to put him in a new trackuit.

Wow. Funny. 10 six. How much? Two. What do you have though? Wow. Oh, yeah. I could have lost a lot more. I was never folding. Oh, he had the eight. Never folded. You like that check on the flop? WHO GETS IT ALL THE TIME? 10. OH, BOY. As I like to say in the home game, I don't mind losing to Chimoth, boys. How about that? Nobody checks the flop on that flop if you have the button. Except yours truly. Chimath, take us behind your brilliant play.

Well, you It's a new segment on poker. Here, I I I will tell you because I don't I don't really care that much to to hold it back, but they say that should be in the middle. Phil will never play a three street hand. So you have to reduce you have to figure out the mechanics that gets him most of the chips in in a two street hand. Oh wow. So he'll never he'll never just you can look at any hand. It's totally totally uh press and so you check.

Now you reduce it to a two street hand. You min bet the turn. Sometimes he'll pop you. Wow. I almost popped. So if I'm bluffing three streets if I'm not two. No. No. Helm has this very specific thing where he just he just will not play three street hands. Right. Right. There's a lot of does. I've noticed that. No. Yeah. Keeps it small. He likes to keep it small. Unlike King made it too. Oh, Keing made it to two. Sorry, I was going to raise. It's the home game.

You're allowed to raise if you want your mouth. It's okay. Just going to be respectful. I think fundamentally there's two two types. One person looks for reasons to fold and one person looks for reasons to call. Right. You and I are opposites on that. I'm definitely the person who looks for reasons to call. For sure. Uh-huh. You don't say. I concede. These are kind of like the old school font playing cards. I like it. 17. This feels This feels stealable, but running the game. Button move.

Phil Helm is the button. Phil, I'm gonna say this. All right, let me say this. Two hands a level. You brought up uh you brought up Jenny Just who spoke at the who's amazing. Like she's uh Can somebody bring you my cold brew from She started poker. She started I want to get this right. She started poker power. Poker power. She's educated 400,000 women on how to play poker. She goes, they go all over the country. Pretty legendary. Yeah. And then they have like a thousand women show up.

We have her at every all-in. She's amazing. Yeah. She does it at every all-in summit, right, Freeberg? Not every. I was really excited. I was like, you know, this ladyy's so into poker like nobody knows who I am but somebody that into poker may and she's awesome. So I walked up to her and she was just like, who are you? Like I mean nice and humbling. I was like nothing matters. Oh, three birds in a hand. I love to tease her husband. her husband, Jenny just husband because her husband's like she is the Michael Jordan of trading.

Of trading. Of trading. Yeah. Yeah. That's a big big praise. Yeah. I mean, like it's hold up. No one even knew. No, I guess you guys will laugh at me cuz I'm going to drop billionaire. Seven. I'm going to drop billionaire. No one knew she was a billionaire. 54. Five. One high one though. Yeah. Okay. One high one though. Jack Deuce. I love it. She stayed in the Jenny just stayed in the like like no one knew. And then she had they had to post. Yeah.

And then they're like ro row. I think you guys' pod has done a great job grind the game too. I wonder how many people are playing poker now just because of the pod. M it's got to be playing because of the pot. Yeah, I think it's got to at least be several thousand that were just like there's poker groups that are popping up in the in the bay because Oh, man. Several thousand what they started, I think. Yeah. A way underestimation. Yeah, that's at least a couple hundred thousand people have come in because of these guys.

Yeah, it's amazing, man. Okay, I'll go all in. Hold up. Yikes. Reedberg's always dangerous. always dangerous. You're like the the quiet killer at the poker table. Wow. Every time I needed a club. I had the ace of clubs blocker. It's like a perfect fluff card for me. I don't think I've ever seen Dave have a losing session ever. I've had losing. I'm down to Oh, yeah. I know. I've never I've never seen it. No, he didn't lose any other year. And then this is the first year.

This is the first year I'm losing. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know why. Play once. I didn't play a lot. He's played like seven six times with us. He he's been a little bit like he's used to sitting down and having the deck smash him. He doesn't know what to do when doesn't have any hands. I noticed that. He works his bicep. I really enjoyed that one tournament. I played that $10,000 World Series tournament. I've never heard that one. Um what was that? We all played the World Series 10,000 buying.

Oh yeah, that turbo. The turbo. That was super fun, man. 61212. Yeah. Yeah. You guys came in for that. the the 10,000 that honestly I enjoy that. if we launch allin tournament series as our adviser, our top adviser and then heating as our second most important adviser, what would you guys advise us to do with our say there's no amount I'd say we need professional sky youth for any amount he wants basically. He's the biggest influencer in the game. That's all. No, no, but we we need advice from tournament experts like look everybody one thing that I would say is tournaments right now in my opinion it's like they're they're hurting hurting cattle into a like at a farm.

In my opinion like players are kind of treated like you guys will do whatever we want you to do because we know you will. So they just kind of treat the mainstream player pretty bad in tournament stops. So I think like starting earlier, having a nice lunch break, letting them go home at a recent at a decent time like rather than just like that would go that would get me to play a couple. Yeah. This is why you like Triton. Is Triton different? Triton plays late, but they give you a super ultra like VIP experience.

Uh I still wish that they would shut things down earlier, but those guys don't really work like that. They just play all day every day and the end of the day you have to cater to what they want. But like uh oh what do we got? Beautiful 82 82 that JCO J tomorrow Gil Labbert is hosting the one drop at noon by Yeah you were telling us that I had a really good it's going to be a fast Oh my god I was dead. I would play that.

Oh, no. [snorts] 90% you can donate. Like I'll if I win, I'm going to obviously donate probably all of it. At least half. Donate to How much is the buy in? $5,000 buying. Great at noon. And they're going to end it quickly. We need to do a good group of people. But you're doing live. We want to do the most elite poker tournament ever with the highest end. So would poker players 816. Yes. 816. Would Let me ask you one question though. Um, would poker players be willing to pay to play in a tournament, to play in an elite kind of environment?

I Yes, I think absolutely. I think even professional poker players, they lean towards good experiences. They go to venues that make them happy when they wake up and grab breakfast or take a walk outside. Like a few of the stops that you play internationally, they feel like poker prison. It's like the only thing that exists is a poker. You just get depressed. Like, why am I here? I don't want to be here. So, I think have it at a great venue where there's stuff for people to do outside of poker.

Have reasonable hours for the tournament. Make it more experience-based than just poker. Like, so people are actually enjoying themselves. And the thing is, if you want it DJ, bestie hand, if you want it DJ, like there's a casino. Like, you can bag your chips up and go DJ. Like, if you want more time to gamble, like you can do that. I would say that these guys and us, we all like two-day tournaments. Like, let's get the final table on day two. I mean, that's just that's every Triton tournament is a two-day tournament, right?

Even King might be able. My biggest issue with tournaments is there's too much skill involved. I'd like to figure out a way where it's more luck, you know. Well, Triton's fast schedules or fast structures really give me three cards. I don't know. Have you seen how many randoms went tournament skating? Yeah. Faster structures they they you know four three. Yeah. offsuit jack like a ding-dong ships it with the offsuit jack which is the right thing to do. There's a lot of luck involved in tournaments and I'm only playing the players.

I'm really just being silly. I could have had that ace, bro. What else would I have done on the button? I had four five. I was about to raise. I was about to three bet. You would have isolated. I had a king. Actually, if you bet small, you would have wrote me into that hand. I wanted to take it down early cuz all I'm playing for is second place right now. I know one of these idiots pros is going to win first. All I have to do is just get lucky and double my money.

It would be impossible for me to win a 30-minute tournament. Jason, what is this? Talking about having a chance. Yeah. I just need to get lucky. I think the blinds have to go up next hand cuz correct. Yeah, there's no way this is going to finish if we By the way, good food when people are playing like an actual offering that isn't discussing. I think Play your hand. What's the blind schedule? It's like 32. Um, we'll go 1. Maybe we go two, four. Oh, can we play a bomb pot?

This This isn't fast enough for you. Well, I'm just wondering about playing three hands a level. Why don't we add a bomb pod to this? I'm not even kidding. One level was two hands. Why don't we play bomb pot? What time are we supposed to go on stage? Can we rotate a bomb pod? I check. Is it 1:30? Oh What happened? Is it just me and Helmu? Me and Helmu? Yes. Catch up. I think we just make it a $1,000 bump for the rest of the way.

We could also just like play until No, you guys have to leave and then we just all in dark and see who wins. I mean, this is frustrating. I have a pair 6K. He would bet 4K if you If you could give us a longer speech before you fold, that would be great. Thanks. I took 11 seconds. Literally four 4 second levels. This guy's taking a 30 minutes. He's like, "Guys, you're not going to believe this, but I I got a piece of the flop." What are we at?

4,08. Let me make it about me. They call that funeral for your cards, right? Yeah. He's literally giving a eulogy for his body. I mean, I took 11 seconds. We have 38 minutes. Everybody like I took 11 seconds to idiots. They really want to find a way to make Can you guys put a crafts table in the corner? Yeah. while we're playing. I actually am a big fan of that. I have a Wouldn't that be great? A cold brew out there. Would you mind asking to bring my cold brew in?

We had fun playing Bakarat on the table from Starbucks right there. Bakarat is more my speed. You and me and we had uh we had some of our regulars. I've never played Bakarat. I'd like to do that. The shrimp. Thank you. Oh, you're too kind. I'm just go with the cold brew. Thank you so much. Do you want half of it? I'll take I'll Yeah, I just put it on my laptop. It's fine. Do me a favor. Would you um split this in half and then I'm going to split it with because he loves Co.

Go for it. Should be a hero. Thank you. I have you beat. Just uh pour this half into another cup. I'm going to split it with Guy, too. I would have called you too for the kids. Oh, is what Freeberg chickening out and trying to sit out a couple of rounds to try to eek out second place? That's typical. Yeah. So, are we going to talk about Alan Keating almost beating up the guy last night? Hold up. What? You almost beat somebody up last night in carbone.

No way. He smacked his hand on the table and said enough. The all the plates on the table did the little like one inch and the guy come on. Like started shaking and apologized to him. What happened? Cut it out. We're not talking. He apologized to him. Cut it out. I'm not cutting it out. The guy told guy got out dinner last night. So what's wrong with it became political talk, you know, we we get the chicken farm, we get the ziti, we got the lavo and um all of a sudden then what happens?

It's on you. So I show So so I was supposed to meet you guys last night, but yeah. Way to make it about you have 7 seconds to fill. No, no, but I mean I'm glad I didn't show up there. By the way, if Molly Bloom's here, she should come hang out. Um, so story Jason, what happens is the guy says, "I'm an ultra zionist." No, stop. We're not having this conversation. Do not talk about what happened. Are you censoring censoring the pot? Okay, fine. Um, so the guy says, "I'm an ultra zionist." Because Molly, I'll tell you guys, if she is, does she want to come hang out like in the poker?

You have a lot of discretion, Jason. And is she going to the restaurant? Look at the cheek. Okay, great. Look at this board. Who's in the hand? I have a philosoph. I'm embarrassed to say, but it didn't cost you any more than Oh, Is this you? There's your mine. Thank you. Careful, dude. They're on the floor. Thank you. Keing trying to trap Chamas. Chimas didn't fall for the little I really didn't know what to do with that hand. I really You're not used to smashing like I'm NOT USED TO HAVING A good hand.

Find my way out. Not like I have the nuts. What am I supposed to How do you play the a good starting? How do you play a good hand? I don't know. These are like I love it. Two premium cards and a great flop. They deal aces like Keading first hand. He didn't know what to do. Yeah, I was totally confused. I was so close to coming over the top on Keating in that hand and I was like, Yeah. I was like, you know, Keing likes to drag people into the deep water.

Maybe I need to stand up for myself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then I was like, "Nope, I should never play any hand with Keing. I should get all my money and good against Helen Friedberg." The world's greatest tournament player. I have I have I have this thing that I has been trailing me for years. It's like uh people say, "Oh, Alan, I can't beat you. I can't beat you." They'll buy in for 5,000. I'll double them up six, seven times. Then I'll finally win an all in packet and they'll go, "Ah, Alan, I can't beat you." 145,000 of that was mine.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. All I did was come back and get my own chips. 2080 every fallen soldiers. So ridiculous. Oh, and Min against the world's greatest cash game player. We have We have It's interesting like you and Stanley Stanley thing. Yeah. Time for pain. Oh my god, baby. Time for some pain. Oh, cookie jar. Look at Freeberg. Freeberg is so distraught being the first off the clock. Uh I call the clock. We need a dramatic pause. My goodness. You got Jack. Show us your cards. He is Jack nine.

Red. Jack. Jack of hearts. Nine of diamonds. He's only Show us your cards. Make it interesting. That's a good read for me to find. No, no. Show us. Show us. Show us before you make a decision. We'll get We'll give you some counsel. Oh, I would ship it all. He folded. He crushed. He's on a flush draw. He crushed me. No, no, he I had him. Just the nuts. Oh, run it out. Run it out. I know. I always think no one has anything. He's got spades.

I can't believe we didn't get all in before the flop. Wow, he crushed me there. He just knew I had a big hand. Never seen Freeberg lose. I swear. Look like a draw to me, too. Yeah. Okay, start the clock. Great read. Line should be 153 probably, right? It's been 8 seconds. Philip, calm down. May I have a coffee, please? Yeah. Sorry for yelling over the table. It's probably rude for me to even ask, but I I would I won't I won't explain my reads on you.

I will never reveal. Yes, please. Yeah, just take them to the grave, man. Just keep printing checks off me year after year. Since you asked, I will take a cappuccino. All I want is full Tahoe, four sugars. I don't want to lose that. I'm always there. A little bit of lard a little bit of lard in it. And if you can give him two cinnamon. We're doing Thanksgiving in Tahoe. And we're going to do Christmas. We'll see you in Christmas. We'll see you for skiing. Oh, we got to do a poker game.

We'll all be up there. We can make it a business. Christmas. You have to be there. Yeah, I will. Yeah, we could do a little bit in Tahoe. Why don't you come up? Rent a house. Come join. I'll rent a house. Everyone's going. I'll go. Are you going to be solo, buddy? You stay right. I might have an extra room. I have no rooms for you. There's rooms for you. I have 8,000 children. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I mean, uh I I 50/50. I have a room.

Yeah. I have to see if I'll have to figure that out. Say his house. His house is sick. He's got a movie theater. Yeah. Do you ski? I have a ski and ski out house. It's a little smaller than his house probably. But you're on the location where you killer in. He's like walking distance all like But in the next door property, you basically walk. You think you think I'm like uh too old to start skiing? No. Just No, I will um I'll get an instructor.

Easy peasy. And then I'll take you out for a day. Pizza's up there. And up there, Phil's up there. Girly. Where are you guys going? I'm going New Year's. Yeah. I'm going to be there December. We got to play We got to play some poker. I may pop up for New Year's. I would like to play some kind of like a new game like learn a new game like Raz or Studs. We could do like a some random games that none of us have ever played before.

I just Yeah. I would like to play low stakes like some Chinese half deck. No, no. Like what do you want? You don't want the short deck. No, no. I would like I would love short deck with an ante. Yeah. No, no. Let's play short deck. If we play short decks low, don't worry guys, we'll learn this all together. I don't know how to play any of the like stud games like Well, Oh. Oh my god. Please hold up. I got the six of the ace of the choppy.

WOW. [screaming] YES, YES, YES. OH MY GOD. So great. What a call by me. Choppy. Choppy. Wow. Why do I not get rewarded for such stellar play? Unbelievable. It was a really good call. Nothing better than Helmuth not winning. There is nothing better than that. Not I do feel that way. Yeah. It's so great when he doesn't win. Yeah. When he had when he what is it? 15. He turns the 153. Okay. Oh, you don't like it when I do that, do you? For the viewers, one thing that they I thought if you had a pair, you would call I have to move in with ace high there.

I think one thing the viewers should know about poker is all the money in the middle makes it so that you don't have to get your money in in front for it to be profitable. That's like an important thing for people to understand. Sometimes even if you know your beat, if you're being laid a price to gamble, sometimes you have to gamble and it's better than folding. That's something and I think there's a lot of analogies to that in business. Yep. Life decision making. Yeah. Like sometimes you know you have the worst of it but you got to run it.

Having the best hand is kind of lame to be honest. It's rare. It doesn't happen often some nights happens a lot, but you hold them. It's hard to make a good hand. That's why it's the best game. PLO, I feel like it's been sold as if it's an action game. But you come into the hand with king 10, 74. You're facing king, queen, jack, 10, and pocket kings and aces. So many hands. There's no board where you're dominate. Yeah. Or your advantage. You can't catch. Short-handed.

It's I said all in. True. Short-handed. It's true. I'm going to need a little advice. I said all in. No, I He went all in. But uh I think it's been sold as a gambler's game when this is going to be a big decision for me. How much chips did he have left? All in. He could have ace king here. He could have king queen here. He's got like 193 or something. I think this would be a very tough decision for me. He doesn't have aces, but he could have ace king.

He could have king queen. Wow. Do I want to go out? Could he do that with queens or tens? He knows I could have a king. Really difficult decision. Could have. Could he have any of those set of sevens? No. I'll just go grab one. He did raise pre flop. He could have ace kings. sugar non- sugar things or whatever sweetened. Nice to be here. Okay, I'll take So many chips left. Any of them. Thank you. All right, I'm going to lift if I fight another day.

Run it. Run it. Rabbit hunt. Let's see it. He's going back door regardless. World's easiest call. NO. OH MY GOD. [screaming] WHAT? OH, he he folded. He wanted the best hand by all. I knew it was coming. He's running so hot right now. I knew it was coming. You avoided the pain. Wow. I was like, you know what? I could live to fight another day here. That's second level play right there. Fear rewarded. Second level. The pros would have snapped the money. Fear rewarded. No, I mean, he's playing against me, so I would put him on a better hand playing against me.

He knows I'm, you know, I play a tighter range of hands. So, good read. Yeah, it was the wrong read. King N. You're right. King nine of clubs was a little stronger than I thought. Pre flop. Yeah. He flips that over and you're like, I was like, "Oh god, that's gross." Right. Oh boy. That was a good hand. I like that hand. Run. We got to get sacks out here. Mhm. Guys, Molly Bloom's going to come in and say hi. Oh, cool. Oh, wow. Ace 10 versus Okay, guys.

Guys, guys, get focus here. We need diamonds. Diamonds. No three. No three. Just diamonds. Diamonds. Diamonds. Oh my gosh. Five for a split. OH MY GOSH. YES. Phil Helmouth loses. Hold up. Hold up. Nice hand. Nice hand. Philly. Awesome. Phil Helmouth out first. This is what we live for, folks. Phil losing a tournament. Going out first. The world's greatest tournament player loses to Allan Keading the Wild Man. He can't even beat a person who plays 24 off. This is incredible, folks. What a turn of events.

Helm busted first. A documentary. Shameful. A documentary came out this week and Keading's talking about like he doesn't like tournaments. Yes. because it's like for smooth busted me like it's nothing. I guess she's going to bust Jason next. So great. Dear won't be the first time. Our Lord and Savior. Correct. Freeberg, get in here with a little Jesus prayer with me. Come on in. Jesus is ready for you. Freeberg my black. You better deal. All right, Freedberg. Hyper. Let's praise Jesus. Is it four? Yes. Baby Jesus.

Thank you, baby Jesus. 2,000 come youth first. Okay. [laughter and snorts] Thank you, baby Jesus. This is where I'm going to shine. I'm [clears throat] going to be dealt a lot of big hands. What is happening? Did he just go all in? I fold. It's a good fold. Close. Close. Buck. Freeberg. Oh my god. Helm so disgracial. Tell me when was the last time you won a tournament. Hold on. Why you got to be so mean? Hold on. Just ask. Somebody pass me the salt. The horse salt.

I made a final table at this year and I made a final table. Uh, let's just say it's been a couple of years. Four. Okay. But do you play other Do you play other tournaments? Are you playing like No, I haven't been. I played three tournaments outside of the series. Some some ridiculously small amount. Are you uh going to the Bahamas or are you playing the W the I am going to the Bahamas. You are. Are you going? I don't know. It's too far away. I just want to put it out there that it's a long uh any of these poker tournaments.

Want to pay my blind? I'm willing to fly. Welcome to the club, kid. Okay. Willing to fly in and play. I'll fly in and play. All right. I'm willing to uh be a full tilt red pro again. Yes. Hi, Molly. Hey, Molly. How are you? Good to see you. So good. Welcome. Come on in. Tough table, huh? How you doing? I mean, they're mean. Don't worry, there's a They are mean. Phil Helm shipped all his tips with Ace Garbage. Come on in. We put a seat over here if you want to hang out.

Do you know everyone? Yeah, actually Phil's busted. I'll take his seat. Good to see you, Molly. Everything's good. Yeah, first. Oh, Molly, it's good to see you. Good to see you, too, folks. Okay, we know Chimoth. All right. Nice to see you. and Alan Keading. Pleasure to meet you. Nice to meet you. You want to grab a seat? Yeah. I don't want I'm sitting here hanging out. We're just hanging out. Thanks for coming to the event this afternoon. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Oh, I was going to get tens, I think.

How's life? Oh, are you at tens? I think so. How's life for you? It's busy. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, guys are Wow. I think we have 20 minutes left. What are we going to do here? Should we just play bomb pots the rest of the game? thousand dollar bomb pots. The problem is the problem is no one how often do you play poker to learn. We'll be ahead of the curve. It's not a bad idea play. Just so people can These guys are in Vegas. You're in Vegas.

Yeah. Where do you live? I live in Boulder, Colorado. Oh, wonderful. Out of the scene. You like it? I Yeah, I love you get this. So, these are my old cards. I can look. You want them? It is. I just want to play Hannah with Tim. Come on. Oh yeah. Hold up. 4,000. I wanted to. I'll be in the Bahamas for a while. Oh yeah. I'll be there. Show him the bad news. 11 days or so. That's it. Let's hang out. Get a second and then owe you.

That's Molly. Do you play? Is it 4,000? I don't. Yes. No. I never played when I was running games. My friend has a place down there. So the government took over so I didn't really have any money to play. This is going to get punitive now. And then this went on. Yeah. But um so you have no involvement in any poker scene at this point in your life at all? Not until today. It's so interesting. Molly's return Molly's return to poker. This is like the version two of the movie.

Molly and I occasionally do event together. Yeah. Chicago or wherever or lines? What kind of event? Are you going back to Miami? Uh it depends for eye connections. I I I really would like to but it depends on if I get booked. speaking. Um, we went we did an event. He MCED the uh fundraiser at the Chicago Holocaust Museum with Well, that's where I saw you at Miami. This is for like the wind too. The der 60% of the chips and play or something. Yeah, we had dinner with Sophia.

Classic. Carbone, right? Yeah. I mean, we went to Carbone last night and Allan got in a fist fight with the guy at our table and we had to they were like I will beat your ass. Let's go outside right now, And I was in between the two of them and then there was reaching across the table and I mean Jason was laughing, giggling in his corner. I don't know if it was legit like like you guys were going to throw they were going to throw down but we invited him outside.

Christian like you wish you were there. was the uh Christian started. We're not going to talk about what triggered it. Okay. Christian isn't built in nature. I was just going to say it must be political. It was politics. No, it wasn't. It was not built for it. And Allan just said, "Listen, step comments. You disrespect me. There's a lot of kick your ass." And he just on the table. And the guy started apologizing. He did like a half an apology. I've already forgotten it. Half an apology.

But it was cool that you guys hung out. I fully unreservedly a hung out. We talked this morning. The guy did take it to the car. He insulted him. Yeah, I mean that's how guys make friends. Yeah. You made a mark. Did you hear the end of the story? I appreciate the Well, you know, so they went out to We all went out to the barber shop club afterwards. Yeah. Hung out. Why are the blinds? I left them at the club alone and they were hanging out and now they're best friends.

Now they're best friends. 20,000. One of the blinds. That's actually how a lot of good uh research did you know this person and mine started that way. Oh, that's literally how you met. I literally introduced them at dinner and I thought, oh, well, I figured these guys would get along. I'm like, come to dinner with us. We all go to dinner. I'm like, oh, these guys will get along. No problem. I was like, what the happened? Oh, you So, it was your friend? Yeah, it was my friend.

Oh, that's stressful. Yeah. I was like, what am I going here? And this is it's all Freber's fault. It sounds like it's always No, he's a very smart guy. Very smart. Very. Everyone's too smart for their britches, they say. And I was going to not going to take much. Shout out to Carbone, by the way. Thanks to Alan Ke, by the way. You're welcome. Thank you for How much is the show? 22 less. It's an all in hand, isn't it? Maybe it is. I don't know.

I never play that. I think that's a tell 225. How's Boulder? Is Boulder is that where you live? Yeah. You like it? I do. Yeah. Um my family's there. It's fun. I have two good friends that grew up in Boulder kind of weird. Yeah. Or is it a weird place? It's a little weird. Yeah. Yeah. It's like crunchy. People are like But yes, but also kind of not. That's the exterior. You know what I'm saying? There's like a good Yeah, but but there's a you know my mom lives 5 minutes away, my brother lives four minutes away.

That's cool. You have a good group of friends there. That's slightly I moved back like Charlie. I mean, can you beat nine high? Like a really bad nine high. Oh my god. Oh my lord. What twice he gets? I had a really bad nine high. [snorts] Don't worry. Whatever you shove on this hand, I'm calling. I know it. I'm going to need you. [clears throat] Oh boy. Hey, uh, Kading won the Warriors charity poker tournament. I did. You did? They gave him a bracelet. It was a ton of press.

It was It was pretty amazing. I think he beat you. Beat Steph Curry in a side bet. It was a cool moment. That was the day uh last longer side bet. That was a famous day. The day that Luca was traded. Oh, that's right. It was like 9:30 p.m. at the Warriors charity poker tournament and all of a sudden all the players are like, "What happened?" That was spooky. And it's just like the whole tournament stopped for a minute. Luca's been traded from the Dallas Maverick.

Yeah. And I had video of it which I felt like a little weird even. It was It was really weird how the room was just high and then all of a sudden what happened? Like I don't like to fold that girl. Triple me up. All in. Thank you. Wow. This is it, folks. Am I actually going to fold ours? Ah, sounds like you got a premium hand. Oh, this is great for me. Show your king jack. King jack. Oh my god. I got two over cards.

Let's go. What am I doing? Yeah. What are you What am I doing? I almost went to bad. A6. I had A6. King six, which is like a perfect Oh my god. My A6. I had A6. Four. Five. All day, right? Nope. GG. All right. If I could lose to anyone. Thank you. It's the first time I've beat you in my life. Katie, you have a 10. No, I jack high. Tripled up. All right, now my money six held up. Jac, how many chips you got?

The chip leader, right? John is big time. He's most certainly the chip leader. Yeah. Who's left? Me. Four. Four of us. There were four. And then there were four. Are you doing Formula One? Are you coming? You know, I wanted to stick six of hearts. It's like a little sneaky, but I didn't have the position to really ice. I should have shipped my sit there and enjoy making some money for one event. I went I came to the first Vegas and they're cool. They're so cool.

Yeah. Um being on the track is insane. Yeah. Yeah. It's really fun. The um these like trial days or whatever they call them. Yeah. They're not as great as the final day, but they're kind of pretty fun to take and hang out. Yeah. My friend was just doing good luck. I can't even play the blinds on the next hand. So, wow. Here we go. Insane, right? I could see that. I guess cuz you're still like you're probably fast reactions and Okay. Where's my protection here? I feel like 16.

Looking for some protection. Like I feel like it's miracle I survived. Yeah, I can beat one player. I don't know if I can beat two. I think you're going to have to beat three. Eating decision time. Love it. Oh, it's a tough decision. Wow, he's trapping. Wow. No, I got to figure out IF I TRAP OR protection time. Play together often. Yeah, folding is not enough. And then I don't know if you know this, but so he's like these guys are all pretty. Do I? So now he's I've heard of them before.

Ah damn. I've heard of you. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Good things or bad things? Good. Okay, good. He's got a reputation for being so I'm so weak. Thinker. I like that. Such a weak player. Well, you know who to give it to. There was a player man in the game. What's the guy's name who ended up that died at a young age? He won the World Series in the event. Steuer, you're like Steuer. Oh my god. Dude, wasn't his whole thing like very non-conventional play, Phil? Stu.

Stu could play super super super fast and but he was like very creative. Played every hand. Very great. Played every hand. Super creative. Lived on his reads like a complete legend and like he might have been the greatest of all time. won the main event three times, but I think he ran into some issues with like, you know, unfortunately nine. It was drugs or something. Yeah, drugs. Drugs took him down. Yeah. GJ. But you ever play with him? Close. Yeah, I played with them a bunch.

Yeah. Yeah. That's one part. That's maybe the person I'd like his daughter Stephanie is I remember reading about how he played and his plays were always like very original like very aggressive play any hand like no one. That's one of the great books of all time. The Steu Hunger story. Do you like the book? Even though I don't believe I deserve a book on a book. You You guys want to hear something interesting about Stu? Yeah. Okay. So, he was a bridge player at age 15, he was the best gin player in the world.

And so, he had a bunch of guys that were connected uh that would have him at 15 go all over the east coast and make all this money playing jin. And at one point he finished in the top four in the world back gammon championships, was the best gin player in the world. No one played him. And was the best hold player in the world. all at the same time. That's Steu Hunger. But I think, you know, unfortunately cocaine, it's a hell of a drug. Cocaine is a hell of a cocaine.

Tell us about it, Jake. Drug. A hell of a drug. But the talent that he had like two like hell of a drug. Fan is a hell of a drug. Um, no, he was the the mob. Yeah. The Jewish guys at like the Silver Gull, you know, out in Rockaway. cops. Everybody loved to play this kid. So like playing Jin was like a big deal in Brooklyn and Queens. So they the mob would just bring him around. They let him keep 10% of his winnings or whatever when he was a kid.

And he would just demolish adults. It's in the book. Really crushed everybody. Crushed everybody in Jim. I think Keing's all in. I actually have a story about this though. Yeah, he has got to post eight. You got a longer story. I do have a story just so we know auntie and then post the blind. Yeah. I just want to know where you're at before I Well, the the the blind comes first eight. No, but the way they do it is the blind is is the first eight goes to the blind.

So, he gets a full big blind dealer, right, Jason? How does it work? He's got seven. Seven. Seven. Yes. Okay. So, he get He's still got eight, right? Put eight. Put another one in front of him, please. Dealer. And then there's seven ante. Yeah. Yeah. Go. I didn't know that. Yeah. I've never been short stacked before. It's true. So sick. I can't even. [snorts] Look at this chim. So sick playing for a second. I love it. [groaning] So sick. Kings. Kings. Oh my god. Aces. Aces.

You caught a break. 20. Oh my god. That's a break. Wow. Oh my lord. I tried to spin it. So yes. Heart. Give him a heart for fun. Jack. Oh, Jackie Poo. AC. All right. No suffering, no pain. Keing still alive. I think Keing's gonna win it. I've seen short stack win so many times. Yeah. You got a Stunger story. We want to hear it. I feel a little uncomfortable sharing it. I've never like really told you're on camera. I I have the best Stew. Oh, please let me hear yours.

Please. There's only 12 cameras in this room. The best. Yeah. I mean I you know it's incredibly off color because Stewie had like a huge horse right a horse like he's like a little he was little but you know this oh there's a great story big al's got the story of all stories it's it's the best it's the story like in and reds yeah that's the story here no the the story is like in the middle of like a stud game um [snorts] for the audience at Tell him.

Tell us what a story. You want me to tell it? No. Let me You want me I told you that story. No, Al told me the story. Big Al told it. I was there when Big Al told it. Yeah. But you tell it for you. Tell it for you. Oh my god. You guys are unbelievable. No, we'll tell it together. But but but he was playing Ste is playing high stakes poker, but he's watching from behind. Chip Reese, who's another legend, is playing is playing uh Jyn.

Thank you. But Chip has his hands face up. And Stu is sitting behind him. And then Chip turned to Stu and said, "Did you like that fold?" And Stu said, "No, no, no." So Zeus at the another table playing high stakes poker. Stu's like, "No, no, that was a bad move." And then three and then three turns ago that was a bad move. And then three games ago that was a bad move. And everybody's like, "What?" Like I mean, so here's a guy playing playing for like millions of dollars and and picks off.

That's the story. Anything you want to add? Everyone's memory. Like why don't you just go to 510? Yeah. 510. Also, I don't know if you guys realized, but the last four level ups have been in my big every single one. I keep turning around looking at her like, "What are you doing to me here?" Oh, I missed this. Oh, boy. I need another I'll I'll tell you this. I'll tell you the the full story when we're not miked. Okay. All right. What's your story? Hilarious. It's hilarious.

Yeah. 5,000 and 10,000. My my grandfather had uh uh he was a great card player, but uh as he got older uh the gap widened and he had ended up gambling all of his money away at the Detroit Athletic Club and uh the rumor was that Stu and some of his people were the winners of Wow. of his money. They took his they took your grandfather's money. Mhm. He gambled it away to stew in Jin or poker or what? Jin. Jin. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. No one could beat him even.

No one would play stew in Jin. In Jin. I remember the stories of like my grandma having to drive down to the DAC at like crazy hours to pull away from the table. Wow. Crazy. I'm going to say that Chimath has the best poker game in the world. That's all I'm going to say. 10. That's it. 10 out of 10. 12. Molly's launching a new poker game in Boulder, right? Yeah. [snorts] Probably not a big game for the I don't know. Yeah. Could there be? I I I'll tell you later.

Yeah. There's no There's no poker games in Boulder and I'm not running any poker games for the But he's he's all in, right? Right. Okay. So, I was going to over call a bunch of hands and G freak [snorts] gamble and I can't [clears throat] that one. But someone else that just got in trouble is also no longer. Yeah. Classic race. Classic race. All right. 85 of hearts. Man, that's a pretty hand. Yeah, like the eight five of hearts. Fortunately, Jason cash the sixes win. Cash.

I'll take a cash. Uhoh. Three. Does this go in our Hinden model? A deuce. Oh god. GG. All right, CP. Well done, CP. You got to make sure this goes final stretch for CP here. It does go on your hand and mob. You know, my my hand and m is so out of date cuz Sure. Well, you you could actually it's in the Venetian. It's a legit casino. Can you guys enter this tournament in the hand database? Uh, you're the big. No, no, I'm the No, I'm the button.

He's the button. I'm the big we're playing with like three big blinds and I had aces three times and kings once and I didn't win. Shoot the on. I have 205. Anything you want to go? All of the chips. I mean, I feel like you know your audience and you guys I love I got 110. You You'd have 1025, right? Or no, I'm sorry. 13 or something. Was it not 30k starting stackanded? Yeah. 30k. So 180 in play. Yeah. And I have 325. So you have 1485.

When does that He's got 1485. Focus tomorrow. Yeah. Like 36 hours. Good luck. We meet again. We'll just follow that. We meet again. My eternal enemy. Yeah. and my eternal best poker table. Is that the 222? No question. You got a look at that when you're might be when you're stacked. Yeah. Yeah. Which is right now probably which is this end. Yeah, dude. The eight high seven do. Is that even a fold? I think it is. Yeah. Really? That is It's a very It's thresholdy, but it's a fold.

I think you just put yourself all in dark the next hand. What is it? Five. Five pips. Yes. All right. This is This is like a casino tournament. You know, when all the gamblers that lose a bunch in the pit, we all get together [clears throat] and then we got five big blinds and they take a break. They send you back to Bakarat and back. You're all in. Yeah, I'm not. You know these. Oh, you're not. I've got I've got 2,000. Oh, my apologies. Oh, hold on.

I was just going to flip my cards up there. I think you're safe to flip your cards up. He has 2K left. Hey. Hey. Hey. Nuts. Yeah. Okay. I got two life cards. I never ran any tournaments. Yeah. Nothing. You're like 40%. But I like it. If they like it, I don't care. Yeah. No king. Did you allin moment tournaments are brought to YOU BY That's very interesting. Nice draw. Four jack. All right, baby. 12,500. Big money. 12 more. 12.5, 500. Okay. I feel like patience cuz what you cannot do is give Keing chips.

Stamina pat. chips. You have to have a little patience. Oring. Yeah. Hey, my button. Destroyed. Destroyed. from the vert poker. An ace. I want it now. Uh-uh. Falls through the floor. Yeah. It's kind of like toddler mentality. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. But it seems to work for you. So, I'm keeping up the illusion. Yeah. Well, all in. Oh. Oh, really? Jason Let's go. Oh, big sweep right there. That was a very important hand there. Yeah, that was I had a way above average. Had a pretty good one.

I had a queen blocker. I can't believe you start this. I have an amazing amazing story. He had a horse. You know, that was your story. That's how you tell the story. It's the way the story plays out that is actually exceptionally funny. Well, you told it as if that was all we needed. But then I sanitized it for this. So let me just Yeah, it starts off with the spearmint rhino. That's how and then it just kind of escalated context. What's this? What's the spearmint rhino?

So you know after Stu won the 1997 World Series, he he went right he loved horses. He went right to the track 25 and uh and all the money was to play right away. Yeah. Sounds well. And in the book, I don't know if it's that tournament when he wins, there's like three groups of people who meet him at the cage. Oh jeez. Who he owes money to and he's collecting the World Series tournaments winning and there's like three people deep. Yeah. Trying to Yeah, that happens in modern poker too, right?

Like somebody wins like Yeah, I'm not going to mention names. This is so painful. I mean, it's so so painful. I keep thinking there's not a hand I'm going to fold and then I never would have thought that a $5,000 fiveminute bet. You got to show us the fold. It's really bad, guys. It's really bad. I have nine. Turn it over. 93. Oh my lord. Good fold. He's got a king. Come on. Show the king. Queen. Maybe a jack. Oh, I got the killer card. Oh god.

An ace. That's a winner. Okay. Wow. So, what what is the plan today? We were going to come back here at like three or something or Yeah. I'm looking at real estate. We got to go do the lunch thing with Molly. You thinking of moving here? I think we're supposed to go on. I I would move here and but Kathy the uh you should buy where I live. It's amazing. Well, we looked at a house. It's just too much maintenance. Um but Queens Ridge is incredible.

Wow. In the Kia V. You know, I've never owned a house before. Not that much. You've never owned a house? Not that much. No house, no condo, and never owned it. I got You dominated guaranteed. I got You got three out. No, you absolutely have me dominated. I want to call so bad. And now And now I'm just trying to figure out. What do you do with that? Can I if you actually flop your hand? Oh, I want to call so bad. I have like an asset.

But you're getting such a good price. Like, yeah, I think you have to. So sick. Oh my god. I feel like HE'S GOING TO SPICE A LOT OF WORK. By the way, I think it's going to be a four in the window. He's only a two to one favorite here. People at home, here's a four. Four in the window. It [groaning] flops a jack. Four, five, six. Over. How much? Holy canoli. The world's greatest tournament player might win a fiveminute tournament. 35. All right. 29 seconds over 35.

I think at this point you guys should just go in blind for the next hand. Vines are going up. No one. Oh, okay. Move. Take your time. Shuffling. About to be the big I'm posted. It's already posted. This timing actually worked out really well. Yeah, it almost worked. Yeah. Why don't you guys just go all in for the last We will be. Don't worry. [snorts] What is it? 6 and 12. Yes. Quick, quick, quick before the blinds go up. I'm stalling, man. Now, since the blinds are posted, I'm going to sit here and stall.

Wait for the blind. You know, my favorite thing about tournament poker is when uh someone gets moved to a different table and you see them wandering around and looking for the table just trying and they got their tray of chips and they look and they see, oh, it's this seat, but it's about to be in the big blind. Not many people do that, by the I've seen him turn and walk around and like pretend it wasn't the seat. 100% we see that doesn't happen that often.

Ace 79. Still a chip lead, right? Wow. Take a I think I'm going to win, man. I I think I don't like this hand. I don't like playing against this. I think I'm going to win. No way. I actually think the kings are going to win. Kings are holding up for sure. Eight in the window. Yep. Eight. That's it. Eight. Eight. All right. Oh, good game. Good tournament. Chimov, winner of the first annual all-in Venetian 5minute turbo bouty. Well done, C. I'm going all in.