Well...its like saying...."I've never told anyone this before but I had a "head -in" with Britney Spears.....she loved the All-in move and tanked for 15 min."
Only thing I wish hold em would put in the rulebook is time management. I think when someone calls or raises then you have 60 seconds to make your decision to lay it down or play back. Sometimes players just sit for 2,3 4 or 5 minutes chatting about the weather before they make a move. I would ban sunglasses also.
You really dont see people take more than a minute to decide their move in most games, its pretty much a high stakes thing. And when its televised they dont mind because it builds suspense. I think not allowing sunglasses is a good idea. They should also not allow alcohol. They consider poker a sport but no sport allows drinking while playing.
I remember playing at the Bellagio with Ivey to my left. I was UTG and saw I had aces. I open shoved for 700BB.He open folded 27off. I played with the BEST and I WON. I OUTPLAYED him right then and there
Mike: I did get beat, but I know I'm good enough to play in the NBA. I never told anybody this. About 8-9 months ago, I'm shooting hoops at Rucker Park when Lebron James walks in. The whole place stops cause it's Lebron the f'n "King" James. And people are challenging him like to pickup games, 21, Around the World, Horse. So I got into a big game of Horse. Knish: Impossible. You need 300, 400 bucks for the buy in. Mike: Well I had 10 bucks, but I had to know. So I'm just hanging around the court, passing the ball, doing nothing for about 15 minutes when I decided, I'm going to beat him on this shot. I'm just going to out-shoot the guy. So I went to mid-court and I let one fly. Knish: Nothing but net? Mike: No it hit the backboard and then rattled around the rim a bunch of times before it finally slopped in. "You made THAT shot?" he says. "That's an 'H on you Bron" I replied and then I picked up my ball and walked away. I took on the best in the NBA and I WON.
I played with Phil helmuth and went all in on seven deuce..he calls and I win with 2 pair..he said "honey look at this idiot going all in on seven deuce, bunch of internet players, u aren't gonna last long"
I know that this is a Matt Damon scene, but anyone else noticed Turturro's incredible acting here? His expressions? You see in his face that he lives the scene that Mike recounts, that thrill he feels about the fact that Mike sat down with the best and held his own. What an amazing, versatile and criminally underrated actor.
Funny, I was thinking the same watching this clip. Then I saw your comment. It seems silly to say, but you buy these two being inside the story being told by the little facial expressions or a tilt of the head. Just the subtle things that make the scene work, really well acted.
"It wasn't a bad beat, I wasn't unlucky. I got outplayed." Man losing 9s full over aces to an aces full over 9s is practically the definition of a bad beat. Your big mistake was gambling with money you knew you couldn't afford to lose.
It's the craziest thing that this still happens, people playing for more than a small percentage of their bankroll. "But" they say, I can't afford to play in the real money games with my bankroll!" Exactly. But if you were winning at small stakes, you could. And if you can't win at small stakes, brother you're just handing it away at high stakes.
"He mucked 'em. Looked at me and said "Did you have it?" so I showed him that I hit trip 7's on the river. He called me a stupid idiot. I won, I beat him. He walked away muttering "every freaking time with these bozos"
This movie is incredibly well written, because I understood the technical terms, but I’ve never heard before. And then I scroll down to the comments and it’s like you guys are speaking German Chinese from the fourth dimension
...and then I said: "Do you like apples?" And Chan said: "Uhh...yeah". And I said: "Well I'm not going to tell you whether or not I had a good hand. How do you like them apples?"
It's not the worst story. It's just that Chan couldn't find a tell on him that he was bluffing. But with a guy folding every hand for an hour and suddenly making 3- and 5-bets, it's kind of normal for Chan to fold his hand.
and how did that even work. dude joined w 10bb and obviously blinded down. were they min raising each other off of a limp the whole time? did the pro fold like a 2BB extra jam at the end for 7bb total? so ridiculous 😂
He'd more than win that back from villain 4! folding. The bigger question is how is it deep enough to even go open, 3-bet, 4-bet, 5-bet when we're less than 10bb deep
And he bought in all his cash and sat with a world champion and targeted him specifically and had nothing and reraised when Chan opened raised a pot. That is balls bro
"I was heads up against Negreanu and he checks to me on the river. Board is A776J, I have 45s, having missed my straight I overbet the pot($272) and make it $325, he tells me he either puts me on quad 7s or aces full then calls me with 8 high. He took it down."
@@brettwalkup1666 might make it even worse of a fold lol. It gets raised to 12, Mike makes it 18, chan makes it 24, mike makes it 3k. So even if its sb vs bb, there's 5400 in the pot so chan folds pre getting 10:1 on his money, and at the VERY worst is faced with a 20% pot bet on the flop
"I sat down with Scotty Nguyen, I had nothing but I raise pre flop, Scotty looks at his cards and goes all in, he tells me "you call, baby, you lose", I knew he had nothing so I called and then he flipped over J9, needless to say I lost."
Mukiwa Banda well if he doesn’t play a hand for an hour then 5 bets any poker player would fold against him. You’re not going to make any money or win any tourneys playing the way Damon did in that scene
@@mukiwabanda2794 with a starting stack of 10bbs that has folded for an hour up untill this 🤣 Chan would never in a million years fold to a re raise from a guy with a starting stack of 10 big blinds that's been folding for an hour lol this is bad writing....if you know anything about poker
Johnny Chan bummed a light off me right outside the poker room at the Bellagio. He was taking a break from playing some kind of Chinese poker game with David Benyamine and Bob Stupek. True story. I just got felted playing 1/2. But that made my whole trip.
Playing poker is never defined by playing one hand. It's the consistency with which you do it, and if over time you find yourself on the right side of the ledger, you might be able to hang with the best of them.
Exactly. From Johnny Chan's perspective, the tight passive short stack that's been folding for an hour suddenly is repping a ton of strength preflop. More often than not, you'd be correct to assume they have a good hand. Nits are very easy to play against for pros. Playing like a nit then going hog wild with air in a single hand means absolutely nothing.
This is so hilarious. Mikey is obviously just spouting nonsense, but I love how the "solid grinder" educates him on how he needs 80-100bb to play a nosebleed limit game lmao (0:55).
I Bluffed my Grandmother, and right there I knew I was ready. Remortgage the house, sold everything I had I went to Vegas. I live under the Brooklyn Bridge now, shelter on the weekends. Found out years later my grandmother thought we were playing "Go Fish".
What Knish should've said: "Yeah, Mike. Good for you. But...the difference between you and Johnny Chan is that he could *afford* to muck to you - you said it yourself, rich schmucks were dumping free money on him all night, including you. You didn't 'outplay' him, he just demonstrated how little winning against you meant to him because you'd *paid* him for that win waiting for the perfect opportunity. That's why even after 'beating' him, you still speak about him with such reverence, and he forgot your face a second and a half after you got up from the table."
"It wasn't a bad beat" If losing with 9's full of aces against Aces full of 9's isn't a bad beat, idk what to tell you. It's hard to put your opponent on pocket aces when there's an ace on the board and you have an ace in your hand. It's a fucking cooler. Not much you can about it.
The whole point is that he didn't put him on a monster hand like AA because he was so focused on his own cards. In another word, he was outplayed by KGB by playing right into his trap.
I never told anybody this... but I was at the Bellagio one night, and Daniel Negreanu walked in. The whole place stops, I mean, that's the guy from the loosy goosey Masterclass ad.. So I sit down at the table. I just knew I had to play the best, and see if I belonged. It was a 400/800 game, and I had 8 thousand. We both play the very first hand. He's in position and he raises me in the big blind. I re-raise immediately. He comes right back over the top of me with another big raise, treating me like a guy who doesn't have a signed Phil Hellmuth book at home. I don't hesitate, re-raise... He looks at me closely... up and down, up and down. Then he gives me a wink, and finally folds. I get up and cash in my chips. I head for the door. To my surprise, he's standing in the doorway. He smiles, and then hands me a tupperware box full of vegan pasta. I say thanks. Then he hands me a business card for a hair transplant specialist in the Los Angeles area. I thank him again, but now decide to make a quick exit... And as I stepped out into the cool Las Vegas night, I saw Knish from Rounders. I tell him about Daniel, the hand I won, the whole experience, and the vegan pasta. He rolls his eyes, and then quietly whispers in my ear and says. Bro, he was hitting on you.
Johnny chan came in to eat at my restaurant tonight with some family. I was star struck! He was hella cool too talked a lot. He said thank you every time I gave him something, and even made a few jokes. Cool night.
Unlucky either way, but there are some highlights where you can see really strong players in the blender trying to find a way to fold a full house because they're confident they're up against a better boat or quads. Often they can't even when the impulse is there but I can believe there are players good enough to run into a bigger boat and think they should've gotten away.
No. This is limit holdem, in this era no-limit wasn't offered by many casinos. 300/600 is played with 150/300 blinds or 200/300 blinds, maybe 100/300. 300 bets pre and post flop. 600 on the turn and river, the raises are structured. All these comments are assuming the game is no-limit, and it's not. Limit hold-em here.
Mike: "I played against Tom Dwan. I reraised, and he sat there for 3 hours without blinking. I folded. And you know why? I need to go to the goddamn bathroom!"
This scene best exemplifies Mike's character as being delusional. So he won 1 hand off a pro and thinks that's his ticket to the big leagues of gambling. If he was really the player he thought, he would continue to gamble and see if he could actually go toe to toe with the best. He walked away from that table with a bunch of losses and 1 win (less money I imagine) . Anyone can get lucky and that is the problem with gambling- better to be lucky than good if there is such a thing. So never gamble what you can't afford to lose. Life lesson that Mike never learns as evident at the end of the movie with his pipe dream about going to the World Series of Poker .
I counted $7200 in chips. They zoom in and the chips are clearly visible. He has $6500 on the table. It's just a question of how many $100 chips are in his hand and how much cash is behind his chips.
I love this movie but is there any way you can put volume on these, i will be back in a few years when they come back in my recommendatios! June 25, 2020
I never told anyone this. 8 months ago I walked into mcdonalds and ordered a Whooper. Cashier looked at me and said, " sorry sir but we don't carry that here". I took a step back and without blinking I said, " well then , you better figure it out then Fucko". Manager then came and threw me out. But I had to know if I had the balls order something completely off the menu, and I did. Moral of the story, YOLO! !
Some people here missing the point of the win over Chan. Mike is saying the cards didn't win, he did. He bluffed a World Champion. Poker is about the ability to lie efficiently as well as calculate odds, and read opposition. Mike bluffed a player great at reading players.
And then where did that lead Mike to? Couple of commentators pointed this out, but beating the Champion once doesn't seem to prepare him for the shitstorm he started on himself.
"I have been an amateur boxer for years, and absolutely fed up that my career wasn't going anywhere. And one day, one day in the mid 90s I saw Mike Tyson on the street in NYC. And I didnt care, I didnt care! I was going get him this one time! One time! So I walked up, and sucker punched him good. Square in the face!" And what happened? "I dont remember, it was 3 months later that I woke up from my coma.
1. None of the story makes any sense 2. Mike's tale proves how stupid he is more than anything else. Something that was very much reinforced by accepting KGB's challenge to a rematch.
There is no way on earth that Chan is folding any 2 cards there for another $300 getting those odds. He only has to call 300 to potentially win over $3k lol.
Clearly, you've never played limit. Of course you're always getting pot odds in limit. Being able to fold for 1 big blind is what seperates the fish (you) from the amateurs/pros...
@@mrjohnirons Still a dumb comment by you since you claim to play limit O8. It wouldn't surprise me if you made some crying calls with a crappy low after it's been 4 bet in a multiway pot, hoping that your garbage low wins. But hey, pot odds right? Just 1-2 bets to win the low pot. You must love getting quartered but then again, you "won.." 🙄🤦♀️🤦♂️
I played against Phil Hellmuth one time and he went all in with pocket Aces I called with my 2 3 offsuit connector and flopped 4 5 6 straight nuts. Phil spent the next 30 minutes running around the casino shouting he called me with 2 3 offsuit baby.
I played with Phil Helmuth. He moved all-in pre flop with KQo and I called with pocket aces. He said I was the worst player he ever played against, called me stupid and then he started talking about his bracelets
sh1tabr1ck Do you even play live poker? You get 15 hands per hour, 20 tops at a full table. Thats only 2 rounds of SB/BB to post which sums up to 1800. Even if he folded every hand (which he said he didn't), he would still have 4200 left, enough for a 5 bet.
penncrow Yes I do play poker. Damon says he mostly folded for an hour which means his stack could not be greater than 6000. In the play with Chan he raises and re raises without going all in , which is impossible with a CSI of 6.67. Go learn something about the game you fucking moron.
sh1tabr1ck First of all, just because he folds mostly, doesn't mean he cannot be greater than 6000, he could have picked up a few small pots here and there to compensate for his blinds. Secondly, a 5 bet in this case would be about half of his stack (assume his stack is close to 6000). Lastly, you have to realize that before you started watching poker on ESPN, the popular game was Limit Hold'em. It is obvious in this movie that they are playing 300/600 limit at the Taj. Which means your fancy CSI means nothing. And stop telling others to learn the game when you are no expert at it yourself.
The hand is awful but they are definitely deep enough for that betting aspect to be true. Firstly he didn't 5bet, he 4bet. Second the game was limit, not no limit, so he actually has 10 big bets. At 300/600 the blinds would be 150/300, so a 4 bet preflop would only be 1200. Though Johnny Chan literally never fold pre getting such good odds on a call.
Yea but if he folds for an hour he’s losing like 3 blinds before he even plays a hand lmao and that’s the very least he’s losing since limit is such a quick game, when I use to deal it at a casino I could get 50 hands out in an hour lmao
If he did that to Hellmuth, the clip would be 7 minutes long, full of rants of "can you believe this guy" and "they let anyone with a stack sit at these tables".
Well, in one hour, you usually get about 15 hands at a live table. He said he "mostly" folded for an hour, so that means he probably picked up a few blinds here and there, which would make up for his sb/bb. Pot was raised 4 times (2 by Johnny, 2 by Mikey), thats about 2400, which is about half of his stack roughly. So its very possible.
Yeah, well if u get 15 hands per hour and u only pick up the blinds as you said to make up for your blinds lost it means you still would have around 10bb. Lets say Johnny bets the minimum - 2bb, then matt 3bets minimum - 4bb, then johnny 4bets minimum - 8bb, then matt is left with only 2bb which is not enough to make anyone fold with this pot. Plus dont forget that i used a scenario where they raise each other the minimum amount which is very rare especially with pro players.
+Georgi Geshov for fucks sake. Its BIG BETS. not Big Blinds. the blinds are 150/300 and the big bet is 600. fucking christ. why would you watch rounders if you dont know how to play limit holdem
If you know anything about poker youd understand how incredibly flawed this scene is. Matt Damon says Chan is playing a 300/600 game. He said he only sat down with 6k..leaving him with only 10 big blinds in a game this size. He said he played tight and mostly folded for an hour. So that stack would be down to about 7 bigs. At best... then he claims to have played a betting war with Chan and "outplaying" him with nothing. But in reality, with ONE raise from Chan theres literally not a realistic chance in mankind history that he would fold a re raise to a stack of only 7 or so big blinds 🤣
"I sat with the best and I won" One hand. So what. Maybe Johnny was running a bluff too and figured since you dumped for an hour, maybe you had a hot hand. Johnny Chan would get you dialed in and once he did, you'd find out how good you really were.
Need a pro actor comment here, please at 0:21, “I don’t doubt your talent.” It just lands - he turns his head and down, then back, changes his tone slightly. I don’t the term of art, but it quietly resonates.
I love this movie but this scene pisses me off to no end! Mike sits down with 10 big blinds! There is absolutely no way he'd have the stack to 5bet. The standard 3bet size would have him all in!
when johnny chan raised and lays the chips down, he deliberately puts an extra ummf at the end of his toss, attempting to show the confidence with his raise as well as to over exaggerate the amount of chips he bets, in hopes that matt would fold, or at most equally call his bet, for Johnny chan knew his cards weren't that strong to attempt to re-raise matt if matt re-raises him, which he ends up doing. In order for matt to not catch on to his minor bluff, johnny again raises with false confidence. But matt goal was to outplay him, and got lucky that chan did have weaker cardsm because if chan was trying, he would have taken him for all his money in less than 5 minutes.
Johnny Chan: I never told anyone this, but I sat down with Jason Bourne. He’s had some tough luck lately, so I let him win a hand.
Well...its like saying...."I've never told anyone this before but I had a "head -in" with Britney Spears.....she loved the All-in move and tanked for 15 min."
😆
Hahaha Jason Bourne! Haha
The best comment I’ve ever seen lol
Best comment!
Mike: "I played against Tom Dwan. I reraised, and he sat there for 2 hours without blinking before mucking it."
Andrew O'Mahony lmaooo
DUDE! I would say this that tom would never fold the raise with any hand he has raised to a headsup match!
Tom can read peoples souls.
Only thing I wish hold em would put in the rulebook is time management. I think when someone calls or raises then you have 60 seconds to make your decision to lay it down or play back. Sometimes players just sit for 2,3 4 or 5 minutes chatting about the weather before they make a move. I would ban sunglasses also.
You really dont see people take more than a minute to decide their move in most games, its pretty much a high stakes thing. And when its televised they dont mind because it builds suspense. I think not allowing sunglasses is a good idea. They should also not allow alcohol. They consider poker a sport but no sport allows drinking while playing.
I remember playing at the Bellagio with Ivey to my left. I was UTG and saw I had aces. I open shoved for 700BB.He open folded 27off. I played with the BEST and I WON. I OUTPLAYED him right then and there
Weakkk
Lies
TheVirtualPro poison ivey ?
Did you have it?
@@Khurts1lava I dunno Vass. I can't remember.
Mike: I did get beat, but I know I'm good enough to play in the NBA. I never told anybody this. About 8-9 months ago, I'm shooting hoops at Rucker Park when Lebron James walks in. The whole place stops cause it's Lebron the f'n "King" James. And people are challenging him like to pickup games, 21, Around the World, Horse. So I got into a big game of Horse.
Knish: Impossible. You need 300, 400 bucks for the buy in.
Mike: Well I had 10 bucks, but I had to know. So I'm just hanging around the court, passing the ball, doing nothing for about 15 minutes when I decided, I'm going to beat him on this shot. I'm just going to out-shoot the guy. So I went to mid-court and I let one fly.
Knish: Nothing but net?
Mike: No it hit the backboard and then rattled around the rim a bunch of times before it finally slopped in. "You made THAT shot?" he says. "That's an 'H on you Bron" I replied and then I picked up my ball and walked away. I took on the best in the NBA and I WON.
This comment wins.
This had me dying
We need to see this movie
“ doing nothing for about 15 minutes “ lmaooooo this comment is awesome
Lmaooo great twist love it
I played with Phil helmuth and went all in on seven deuce..he calls and I win with 2 pair..he said "honey look at this idiot going all in on seven deuce, bunch of internet players, u aren't gonna last long"
This checks out.
idiot from northern europe
That sounds like something Phil would say.
That's so good
At which tournament in which Casino?
I know that this is a Matt Damon scene, but anyone else noticed Turturro's incredible acting here? His expressions? You see in his face that he lives the scene that Mike recounts, that thrill he feels about the fact that Mike sat down with the best and held his own. What an amazing, versatile and criminally underrated actor.
100% agree
Funny, I was thinking the same watching this clip. Then I saw your comment. It seems silly to say, but you buy these two being inside the story being told by the little facial expressions or a tilt of the head. Just the subtle things that make the scene work, really well acted.
Was nice seeing him in The Batman
The reason why I don’t respect him is because the first movie I saw with him is Mr deeds. He has looked goofy to me ever since.
1:19
"It wasn't a bad beat, I wasn't unlucky. I got outplayed." Man losing 9s full over aces to an aces full over 9s is practically the definition of a bad beat. Your big mistake was gambling with money you knew you couldn't afford to lose.
It wasn't a bad beat. It was a cooler. Mike's hand was never ahead of KGB's.
@@CribNotes Yes its a cooler, but if it was AJ instead the casinos count it as a bad beat
Semantics are kinda weird
That's what a gambler does dummy
It's the craziest thing that this still happens, people playing for more than a small percentage of their bankroll. "But" they say, I can't afford to play in the real money games with my bankroll!"
Exactly. But if you were winning at small stakes, you could. And if you can't win at small stakes, brother you're just handing it away at high stakes.
I want to know how we got through all the blinds and still had that much money if he never played a hand and they were playing 300-600
I went all in against my grandmother in go fish. Took her down big time.
lol
...and then she tasered you and took back her $3.50.
American Patriot you beast!
🤣🤣🤣
I went all in with your Nan after she went down!
I bluffed Mike Matusow once...Made him think I was buying him a cheeseburger and then left out the back door
Brutal
This is hilarious...🤣 a cheeseburger
LMAO
I tried that once but he raised me his rascal scooter and I had to fold
Mike has "one cheeseburger owed" in his notebook
I played with Phil Helmuth. I had nothing and didn't win a hand, but he definitely out screamed everyone at that table.
"He mucked 'em. Looked at me and said "Did you have it?" so I showed him that I hit trip 7's on the river. He called me a stupid idiot. I won, I beat him. He walked away muttering "every freaking time with these bozos"
This movie is incredibly well written, because I understood the technical terms, but I’ve never heard before.
And then I scroll down to the comments and it’s like you guys are speaking German Chinese from the fourth dimension
"I played against John Juanda. I re-raised pre-flop and he folded trips".
Well played
Almost choked on my beer lmao
Lol
Twips
The trips hand 😂
...and then I said: "Do you like apples?"
And Chan said: "Uhh...yeah".
And I said: "Well I'm not going to tell you whether or not I had a good hand. How do you like them apples?"
Lmfao
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
- "you need 50-60 grand to get in that game"
- "well I had 6 bucks but I'm Matt Damon and I had to know"
Worst poker story ever. "I sat and folded everything for an hour. Then I went crazy and the guy folded." Wow, great story.
jimmi izzy Not really that simple
@@el34glo59 It really is though.
It's not the worst story. It's just that Chan couldn't find a tell on him that he was bluffing. But with a guy folding every hand for an hour and suddenly making 3- and 5-bets, it's kind of normal for Chan to fold his hand.
no e when on a run for a couple hands to build a stack then he made chan fold.
You didn't even get the story. This single hand was all that really mattered for him
Never seen anyone else so supportive and excited when listening others
Mike: I sat with the best in the world, and I won.
Knish: What’s your sample size?
Mike: One hand
Knish : Legend
🤣
"Re-raised. You play right back at em, huh?"
“I sat with the best in the world. And I one won”
Folded a hour and won one hand preflop. Didn't mention he's still down 2k for the night folding blinds 😂
and how did that even work. dude joined w 10bb and obviously blinded down. were they min raising each other off of a limp the whole time? did the pro fold like a 2BB extra jam at the end for 7bb total? so ridiculous 😂
He'd more than win that back from villain 4! folding. The bigger question is how is it deep enough to even go open, 3-bet, 4-bet, 5-bet when we're less than 10bb deep
Hes outplaying that guy!
But he got to tell that story. Only cost him 2 grand. No wonder he is always broke.
He said “mostly folded” he played hands just not against Chan
He won 1 hand. Sick sample size sir.
And he bought in all his cash and sat with a world champion and targeted him specifically and had nothing and reraised when Chan opened raised a pot. That is balls bro
Obviously the movie is dramatized for wider audience. Get over it.
The Flash - Rocket League & Fortnite i know that's what i was thinking
It like me dunking on lebron james one time man, chan is a legend
what do you expect from a guy who sits down at a cash table with 10 BB
Randomly betting your entire bankroll in one hand vs a pro who plays tens of thousands of hands does not count as fucking outplaying anybody.
he says `this one hand` it was about that one hand. no more, no less..
Gen z has ruined poker
@@davidwujczyk3037 how
Bruh how mad were you when you typed that comment 10 years ago lmao
im sorry JOHN i dont remember
"I was heads up against Negreanu and he checks to me on the river. Board is A776J, I have 45s, having missed my straight I overbet the pot($272) and make it $325, he tells me he either puts me on quad 7s or aces full then calls me with 8 high. He took it down."
lol
So Mike buys in for 10 BB, folds for an hour, then somehow has enough to 5 bet pre and get Chan to fold lol
k p exactly my thoughts
They weren't playing NLHE. They were playing a limit $300/$600 game.
@@brettwalkup1666 might make it even worse of a fold lol. It gets raised to 12, Mike makes it 18, chan makes it 24, mike makes it 3k. So even if its sb vs bb, there's 5400 in the pot so chan folds pre getting 10:1 on his money, and at the VERY worst is faced with a 20% pot bet on the flop
@@kp-ls4kq
True, but in this case, Johnny probably didn't want to show his bluff.
@@brettwalkup1666 Even that makes no sense. No one would ever fold a decent pair in a limit game. The pot odds make it an impossibility to do so.
I made a move on Scottie Nguyen once and he asked me did you have it baby
so did i he told me "you call it gone be all over baby
Fuckin' Quintana... that creep can roll, man.
8 year olds dude
you may fool the fox at the league office .. but you don’t fool the jesus
"nah you need 50-60 grand to play right in that game." ....... "Well , I had 6."
lol... and then he folded mostly for one hour and had a stack to 5bet light with 10bb
Broooooooo. LMAO! I’m thinking how are they 3-bet and 4-bet when he buys in for $6000 in $300/$600 game. Dumb
@@tjgulley Well 5-bets is $1500.
@@jayteegamble the only way the story makes sense is if it was Limit Holdem
@@TheSmokey1424 vietnam
"I sat down with Scotty Nguyen, I had nothing but I raise pre flop, Scotty looks at his cards and goes all in, he tells me "you call, baby, you lose", I knew he had nothing so I called and then he flipped over J9, needless to say I lost."
Did you play the board?
a guy plays tight for an hour then all of a sudden he 5 bets. yeah.. he outplayed JC for sure!
Well yes because it was a well placed bluff after an hour of building a tight reputation. Switching it up is good play.
Mukiwa Banda well if he doesn’t play a hand for an hour then 5 bets any poker player would fold against him. You’re not going to make any money or win any tourneys playing the way Damon did in that scene
With a starting stack of 10BBs that has been "folding for an hour"
@@mukiwabanda2794 with a starting stack of 10bbs that has folded for an hour up untill this 🤣 Chan would never in a million years fold to a re raise from a guy with a starting stack of 10 big blinds that's been folding for an hour lol this is bad writing....if you know anything about poker
He said it was 300/600 and he had 6 grand. Then after an hour of folding he somehow 4bets with 10 blinds? Lol
Exactly
It's a 300/600 limit game. 5-bets is $1500 (and you can clearly see each bet is $300)
@@alexh8613 No, we're on the flop. You can clearly see 3 community cards. (Plus he tells us it's 300/600)
If it was limit why would Johnny ever muck for one bet more.
@@jaco2092 He wouldn't, all the hands played in the movie are absurd.
That's the first time Knish truly smiled after becoming a full-time grinder
sit down with the best, win one hand that you play with him, therefor you are now the best player in the world
He didn't say he was the best. He said he was good enough to sit in the WSOP.
@@blackspring3207 Anybody is good enough to sit in the WSOP Main event if you got 10 grands.
Johnny chan looks like a nice guy though. Why would you call him john and say i dont remember
Johnny Chan bummed a light off me right outside the poker room at the Bellagio. He was taking a break from playing some kind of Chinese poker game with David Benyamine and Bob Stupek. True story. I just got felted playing 1/2. But that made my whole trip.
Playing poker is never defined by playing one hand. It's the consistency with which you do it, and if over time you find yourself on the right side of the ledger, you might be able to hang with the best of them.
Exactly. From Johnny Chan's perspective, the tight passive short stack that's been folding for an hour suddenly is repping a ton of strength preflop. More often than not, you'd be correct to assume they have a good hand. Nits are very easy to play against for pros. Playing like a nit then going hog wild with air in a single hand means absolutely nothing.
This is so hilarious. Mikey is obviously just spouting nonsense, but I love how the "solid grinder" educates him on how he needs 80-100bb to play a nosebleed limit game lmao (0:55).
"I bluffed someone once and decided to drop out of law school."
Johnny Chan says "Aren't you that guy from Good Will Hunting? What are you filming a movie here or something?"
Hahahahaha!
Lol, he done a hit and run on Johnny Chan, sick plays
It's the jackettttttttttt
"Sorry, John. I don't remember"
Damon... LIKE A BOSS!!!!!
This scene is so cringe.
I Bluffed my Grandmother, and right there I knew I was ready. Remortgage the house, sold everything I had I went to Vegas.
I live under the Brooklyn Bridge now, shelter on the weekends. Found out years later my grandmother thought we were playing "Go Fish".
I did this same thing playing checkers with my grandpa. I took him down town china town. I sat with the best and I won
What Knish should've said: "Yeah, Mike. Good for you. But...the difference between you and Johnny Chan is that he could *afford* to muck to you - you said it yourself, rich schmucks were dumping free money on him all night, including you. You didn't 'outplay' him, he just demonstrated how little winning against you meant to him because you'd *paid* him for that win waiting for the perfect opportunity. That's why even after 'beating' him, you still speak about him with such reverence, and he forgot your face a second and a half after you got up from the table."
I think John Turturro is one of the best! He is awesome!
He steals the show whatever scene he is in. I endorse this message.
He's lucky Phil Hellmuth wasn't there to see that
"Hey honey, guess what this idiot re-raised me!"
Hey did you See that kid...
Son son thats not Poker
You dont know how to spell poker!!!
Just too sick
Phil: ""Hey idiot, do you know how to play poker? You can't re-raised me! Motherfucker, this guy. Oh my lord."
Lmfao you know I think this maybe the origins of the meme "cool story bro."
So he short stack hit and run Chan and now he is bragging about it to his friend 😂
Isnt that called ratholing or some terminology like that?
"It wasn't a bad beat"
If losing with 9's full of aces against Aces full of 9's isn't a bad beat, idk what to tell you. It's hard to put your opponent on pocket aces when there's an ace on the board and you have an ace in your hand. It's a fucking cooler. Not much you can about it.
Fucking cooler
Cooler, not a bad beat. Bad beat would be going all in good and then losing anyway.
bad beat is hitting quad aces on river and a royal flush
Plus he didn't raise AA pre flop. No way you can put him on AA there, even though he DID 5x pot the river.
The whole point is that he didn't put him on a monster hand like AA because he was so focused on his own cards. In another word, he was outplayed by KGB by playing right into his trap.
I never told anybody this... but I was at the Bellagio one night, and Daniel Negreanu walked in. The whole place stops, I mean, that's the guy from the loosy goosey Masterclass ad.. So I sit down at the table. I just knew I had to play the best, and see if I belonged. It was a 400/800 game, and I had 8 thousand. We both play the very first hand. He's in position and he raises me in the big blind. I re-raise immediately. He comes right back over the top of me with another big raise, treating me like a guy who doesn't have a signed Phil Hellmuth book at home. I don't hesitate, re-raise... He looks at me closely... up and down, up and down. Then he gives me a wink, and finally folds. I get up and cash in my chips. I head for the door. To my surprise, he's standing in the doorway. He smiles, and then hands me a tupperware box full of vegan pasta. I say thanks. Then he hands me a business card for a hair transplant specialist in the Los Angeles area. I thank him again, but now decide to make a quick exit... And as I stepped out into the cool Las Vegas night, I saw Knish from Rounders. I tell him about Daniel, the hand I won, the whole experience, and the vegan pasta. He rolls his eyes, and then quietly whispers in my ear and says. Bro, he was hitting on you.
Johnny chan came in to eat at my restaurant tonight with some family. I was star struck! He was hella cool too talked a lot. He said thank you every time I gave him something, and even made a few jokes. Cool night.
@@shino8854 Just the tip
Oh wow! He EVEN said thank you everytime you gave him something. What an experience
Lol if they replaced chan with hellmuth this would be my favorite movie 😂😂. You 4 bet me with Q 10!, friggin Internet player
Can we have a moment to acknowledge that he said that losing full house over full house heads-up was not getting unlucky?
Unlucky either way, but there are some highlights where you can see really strong players in the blender trying to find a way to fold a full house because they're confident they're up against a better boat or quads. Often they can't even when the impulse is there but I can believe there are players good enough to run into a bigger boat and think they should've gotten away.
@@YourPalJamieEllis How deep were they?
I love that look on Knish face after Mike says I'm sorry John I don't remember
No. This is limit holdem, in this era no-limit wasn't offered by many casinos. 300/600 is played with 150/300 blinds or 200/300 blinds, maybe 100/300. 300 bets pre and post flop. 600 on the turn and river, the raises are structured. All these comments are assuming the game is no-limit, and it's not. Limit hold-em here.
Mike: "I played against Tom Dwan. I reraised, and he sat there for 3 hours without blinking. I folded. And you know why? I need to go to the goddamn bathroom!"
This scene best exemplifies Mike's character as being delusional. So he won 1 hand off a pro and thinks that's his ticket to the big leagues of gambling. If he was really the player he thought, he would continue to gamble and see if he could actually go toe to toe with the best. He walked away from that table with a bunch of losses and 1 win (less money I imagine) . Anyone can get lucky and that is the problem with gambling- better to be lucky than good if there is such a thing. So never gamble what you can't afford to lose. Life lesson that Mike never learns as evident at the end of the movie with his pipe dream about going to the World Series of Poker .
I love how the ad before the clip is 5x louder than the clip...this is HD? Why is it SO QUIET???
10bb but chan and damon have equal sizes in chips visually. lol
Maybe Chan had $6,000 too😂
is there a reason why the ad plays at a volume 3x louder than the clip always?
I think these clips are particularly low volume.
The irony of this clip is that Johnny Chan himself is barely sitting with more than $5,000 in chips and cash himself.
I counted $7200 in chips. They zoom in and the chips are clearly visible. He has $6500 on the table. It's just a question of how many $100 chips are in his hand and how much cash is behind his chips.
I love this movie but is there any way you can put volume on these, i will be back in a few years when they come back in my recommendatios! June 25, 2020
I went all-in blind on Zynga poker once.... (lost)
Watch this movie on the plane to Vegas to get your head right🤣
My favorite part in the movie was when Matt Damon said "it's poker time" and beat all of the guys.
lol
Best Movie Line!
I never told anyone this.
8 months ago I walked into mcdonalds and ordered a Whooper. Cashier looked at me and said, " sorry sir but we don't carry that here". I took a step back and without blinking I said, " well then , you better figure it out then Fucko". Manager then came and threw me out. But I had to know if I had the balls order something completely off the menu, and I did. Moral of the story, YOLO! !
Some people here missing the point of the win over Chan. Mike is saying the cards didn't win, he did. He bluffed a World Champion. Poker is about the ability to lie efficiently as well as calculate odds, and read opposition. Mike bluffed a player great at reading players.
And then where did that lead Mike to? Couple of commentators pointed this out, but beating the Champion once doesn't seem to prepare him for the shitstorm he started on himself.
"I have been an amateur boxer for years, and absolutely fed up that my career wasn't going anywhere. And one day, one day in the mid 90s I saw Mike Tyson on the street in NYC. And I didnt care, I didnt care! I was going get him this one time! One time! So I walked up, and sucker punched him good. Square in the face!"
And what happened?
"I dont remember, it was 3 months later that I woke up from my coma.
The 30 for 30 podcast on the 2003 World Series of poker they just came out with is amazing
After watching this again I realize that Mike was lying through his teeth about the whole story.
Mike: "I played against Phil Hellmuth. I got the nut flush and he started complaining the rest of the night."
1. None of the story makes any sense
2. Mike's tale proves how stupid he is more than anything else. Something that was very much reinforced by accepting KGB's challenge to a rematch.
To catch up on Turturro's amazing acting skills present day I recommend tv show "Severance" Season 1 (Season 2 approved and out early next year)
That is impressive though. Outplaying anyone in limit Holdem is almost impossible.
"I'm sorry, I don't remember" is my stock answer to curious villains that want to know but don't want to pay.
There is no way on earth that Chan is folding any 2 cards there for another $300 getting those odds. He only has to call 300 to potentially win over $3k lol.
Clearly, you've never played limit. Of course you're always getting pot odds in limit. Being able to fold for 1 big blind is what seperates the fish (you) from the amateurs/pros...
@@Hmongboi228 I only play limit O8. Thanks for schooling me genius.
@@mrjohnirons Still a dumb comment by you since you claim to play limit O8. It wouldn't surprise me if you made some crying calls with a crappy low after it's been 4 bet in a multiway pot, hoping that your garbage low wins. But hey, pot odds right? Just 1-2 bets to win the low pot. You must love getting quartered but then again, you "won.." 🙄🤦♀️🤦♂️
@@Hmongboi228 You betcha champ.
The mike mc dermott blow up. When mike matasow does it everyone laughs at him
I played against Phil Hellmuth one time and he went all in with pocket Aces I called with my 2 3 offsuit connector and flopped 4 5 6 straight nuts. Phil spent the next 30 minutes running around the casino shouting he called me with 2 3 offsuit baby.
Are you sure he didn't say "honey"
Idiot from north europe
anyone seen mike? he owes me 3 stacks of high society
I watched World Series of poker once on espn and won hand after hand against the best
I played with Phil Helmuth. He moved all-in pre flop with KQo and I called with pocket aces. He said I was the worst player he ever played against, called me stupid and then he started talking about his bracelets
"I played 2 hours against phil ivey, he never blinked once. Just stared at the bored like a maniac"
Didn’t know you could buy in for 10 BBs 😂
He says he sat down at a 300/600 table with 6000 and folded for an hour. He would have been blinded out. Good story but clearly bollicks.
#1 he "folded mostly" , not every hand
#2 its a fuckin' movie
sh1tabr1ck Do you even play live poker? You get 15 hands per hour, 20 tops at a full table. Thats only 2 rounds of SB/BB to post which sums up to 1800. Even if he folded every hand (which he said he didn't), he would still have 4200 left, enough for a 5 bet.
penncrow Yes I do play poker. Damon says he mostly folded for an hour which means his stack could not be greater than 6000. In the play with Chan he raises and re raises without going all in , which is impossible with a CSI of 6.67. Go learn something about the game you fucking moron.
sh1tabr1ck First of all, just because he folds mostly, doesn't mean he cannot be greater than 6000, he could have picked up a few small pots here and there to compensate for his blinds. Secondly, a 5 bet in this case would be about half of his stack (assume his stack is close to 6000). Lastly, you have to realize that before you started watching poker on ESPN, the popular game was Limit Hold'em. It is obvious in this movie that they are playing 300/600 limit at the Taj. Which means your fancy CSI means nothing. And stop telling others to learn the game when you are no expert at it yourself.
sh1tabr1ck who's the moron trying to make sense of a movie? "#2 its a fuckin' movie"
and kanish still gave him that awkward moment when you ask a second time and he still indirectly says no
derp
I was playing with tom dwan. I had aces, he putted me on all in with 10s preflop. I Call. i lost this hand. Sick turn.
Hey Phil
Great cast, but when you see John Turturro, game over. 😎
volume too low!!!!!!
This guy hit n run on Johnny Chan lol.
The hand is awful but they are definitely deep enough for that betting aspect to be true. Firstly he didn't 5bet, he 4bet. Second the game was limit, not no limit, so he actually has 10 big bets. At 300/600 the blinds would be 150/300, so a 4 bet preflop would only be 1200. Though Johnny Chan literally never fold pre getting such good odds on a call.
Yea but if he folds for an hour he’s losing like 3 blinds before he even plays a hand lmao and that’s the very least he’s losing since limit is such a quick game, when I use to deal it at a casino I could get 50 hands out in an hour lmao
Honey, I raised preflop with queen 10 vs Johnny Chan.
This movie was a great film! I absolutely loved it!
me too!
If he did that to Hellmuth, the clip would be 7 minutes long, full of rants of "can you believe this guy" and "they let anyone with a stack sit at these tables".
Don’t forget the constant hand updates to the wife. “He played six, seven suited, Honey!”
One thing bothers me about this scene. He sit downs with around 10BBs. Then plays tight for an hour. Then he has enough chips to re-raise 2 times?
Well, in one hour, you usually get about 15 hands at a live table. He said he "mostly" folded for an hour, so that means he probably picked up a few blinds here and there, which would make up for his sb/bb. Pot was raised 4 times (2 by Johnny, 2 by Mikey), thats about 2400, which is about half of his stack roughly.
So its very possible.
Rofl it's not possible. The money goes in with a 3bet if you have 10BB. He said he 5bet bluffed him.
Yeah, well if u get 15 hands per hour and u only pick up the blinds as you said to make up for your blinds lost it means you still would have around 10bb. Lets say Johnny bets the minimum - 2bb, then matt 3bets minimum - 4bb, then johnny 4bets minimum - 8bb, then matt is left with only 2bb which is not enough to make anyone fold with this pot. Plus dont forget that i used a scenario where they raise each other the minimum amount which is very rare especially with pro players.
+Georgi Geshov for fucks sake. Its BIG BETS. not Big Blinds. the blinds are 150/300 and the big bet is 600. fucking christ. why would you watch rounders if you dont know how to play limit holdem
it's a limit game, so Mike's 5 bet is 3k total
Dang he best Chan during one hand. He sat with the best in the world and won 😩
If you know anything about poker youd understand how incredibly flawed this scene is. Matt Damon says Chan is playing a 300/600 game. He said he only sat down with 6k..leaving him with only 10 big blinds in a game this size. He said he played tight and mostly folded for an hour. So that stack would be down to about 7 bigs. At best... then he claims to have played a betting war with Chan and "outplaying" him with nothing. But in reality, with ONE raise from Chan theres literally not a realistic chance in mankind history that he would fold a re raise to a stack of only 7 or so big blinds 🤣
It’s a movie. In a game like that though, with that much money on the table, a couple of hands could take 15-20 mins.
@@Socom2SoLid i can tell you're not a poker player by your comment...which is fine..but this scene is incredibly flawed to professionals
"I sat with the best and I won"
One hand. So what. Maybe Johnny was running a bluff too and figured since you dumped for an hour, maybe you had a hot hand. Johnny Chan would get you dialed in and once he did, you'd find out how good you really were.
I played against Michael Jordan one on one at a park in Buffalo. I played the best and I got smoked.
Did you really?
Need a pro actor comment here, please at 0:21, “I don’t doubt your talent.” It just lands - he turns his head and down, then back, changes his tone slightly. I don’t the term of art, but it quietly resonates.
I love this movie but this scene pisses me off to no end!
Mike sits down with 10 big blinds! There is absolutely no way he'd have the stack to 5bet. The standard 3bet size would have him all in!
when johnny chan raised and lays the chips down, he deliberately puts an extra ummf at the end of his toss, attempting to show the confidence with his raise as well as to over exaggerate the amount of chips he bets, in hopes that matt would fold, or at most equally call his bet, for Johnny chan knew his cards weren't that strong to attempt to re-raise matt if matt re-raises him, which he ends up doing. In order for matt to not catch on to his minor bluff, johnny again raises with false confidence. But matt goal was to outplay him, and got lucky that chan did have weaker cardsm because if chan was trying, he would have taken him for all his money in less than 5 minutes.
I sat down. Played...uno...that's it
Greatest story ever...
Phay dat mahm his mon hey
Only here because of brad owen. Sorry for your loss, may your dad rest in peace