Stories From The Felt S01E02 ACEHiGH

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00:00The 1973 championship round draws the largest field ever. Look at them. No

00:12different than the guy next door. But gambling for this lineup is no hobby,

00:15it's their profession. I have the kind of a mind that whenever I see something

00:25happening. I don't know why, but almost automatically in the back of my head

00:32there's a question, can I do this better? This is my nature. I can't even help myself.

00:44Poker on TV is something we take for granted today. Poker After Dark, Poker

00:50Night in America, Poker Masters, Super High Roller Bowl, and the granddaddy of them

00:54all, the world series of poker. It wasn't always this way. Back in the day, poker

01:12players were thought to be hustlers, drunks, and criminals. Shifty gamblers playing in

01:18dim, smoky rooms. Not exactly TV friendly. Beginning in the early 70s, the only poker

01:25shown on TV was an hour-long documentary recounting the highlights of the World Series.

01:30Doyle Brunson, a one-time high school principal, is next to tap out. Now a respected gambler,

01:37Dolly Doyle is armed with a master's degree in education, but it's no help here.

01:42It was just simply, this is what happened in Vegas, a group of people came in, this is

01:47the world champion poker player. A couple of interviews, showed a couple of hands.

01:53I have a lot of inventions, I have almost a hundred patents to my name, and this is one

02:00of them. Over the years, the players changed, but the TV presentation stuck to the same general

02:06format. I found it the most boring thing in the world to sit there, watch two guys, you

02:11don't know what they have, and they're thinking and thinking and thinking, and then the guy

02:15throws his hand away. That to me is about as dull as it gets.

02:19I met Henry Ornstein in 1987 at the bicycle club, playing seven car to stud. And he would

02:26sit next to me, and every time I would throw my hand away, especially when there was action

02:33in the hand. I could have had a flush draw that I missed, or I could have been bluffing

02:38that I gave up, or something. As soon as I throw my hand away, he'd reach out to look

02:41at my hold cards. So he just wanted to see everybody's hold cards.

02:45Born in Poland in 1923, Henry Ornstein always loved games. But his childhood was interrupted

02:53by an invading army. Henry and two of his brothers were the only members of their family

02:59to survive the concentration camps. After the war, Henry immigrated to America and found

03:06success in the toy business. His inventive mind and playful spirit were behind some of

03:11the most successful toys of their time. But his most influential idea came in the early

03:1690s when he happened to catch the World Series of Poker on TV.

03:20It was very boring, because you watch, you watch, you didn't know what was going on.

03:24And, of course, to Henry, that was unacceptable, because he loved the game, and he kept thinking

03:31that everybody should know what we're doing. Everybody should know there's so much more

03:35to play in this game.

03:36I figured out quickly that if we just cut the table and put a glass on top, and then

03:42have camera installed underneath, the audiences could see all the cards, which made it very interesting.

03:50I really hated the idea of showing cards in a hall cam. It just seemed like this was not what poker was about.

03:57There is a big element of disguise in the way you want to play hands and the way you play.

04:04A lot of times I hate to run a bluff or something when I know somebody's going to see it.

04:09I'm like, if I do this on TV, they're going to see it and they're going to know, and I'll never be able to do it again.

04:14So that's how I always think, and I try and, you know, play more ABC than I maybe normally would.

04:20As a professional poker player, I would say, how can you expect professional poker players to show their hall cards?

04:26That's how they make their living. You're telling me to expose the way I play? Really?

04:32What did the players say when you said, let's look at your hall cards?

04:37Well, they thought that the players wouldn't like it, but I said the desire to be seen on TV will be stronger than any other consideration.

04:49I had no doubt about it, and history shows I was right.

04:55The first show to feature the whole cam was BBC's late-night poker in 1999.

05:01We'll be using under-the-table cameras tonight to show you the cards.

05:04We're going to have the luxury of being able to know everybody's hands,

05:07but the players have no way of knowing anyone's cards but their own.

05:10The program was a success, and American producers quickly took notice.

05:15Going all in with nothing.

05:17A stunning play from Moneymaker who missed his draws, has nothing,

05:22and now has put Sam Barhol all in.

05:26Is Chris Bluffing this card? No.

05:29You know, it was like a perfect storm of whole cam being there, television being interested,

05:34and all of a sudden here comes the internet and online poker.

05:38With poker exploding in popularity, a new breed of player was born, the poker celebrity.

05:43Then all of a sudden it hit TV, and there was just a total different air about it.

05:48I actually was a rock star. You know what I'm saying?

05:50That's how you were treated, kind of like a rock star.

05:53Yeah.

05:54And it was strange.

05:56I mean, I would never imagine that Ice-Tex Poker will make me a category of superstar and celebrity, you know?

06:07Today, televised poker is evolving along with its industry.

06:11A new generation of players and a changing audience call for innovative storytelling.

06:16A pioneer in the field, Maury Eskandani continues to find new ways to bring poker to the world.

06:21Poker on TV is going to be outlasting. My grandkids, your grandkids, just because the game is so amazing.

06:30The game itself just captures everybody's heart and soul.

06:35As the inventor of the hole cam, Henry Orenstein has earned his place in poker history.

06:41What's the secret for staying sharp at poker in two-year-old age?

06:46What's the secret of staying sharp at poker?

06:48At your age. At your age. At your age.

06:50You eat a pound of raw cabbage every day.

06:53But it's just a game day.

06:54What is it?

06:59A comeback?

07:00Ache Same Art Team.

07:01Agla Nicole.

07:02King's old.

07:03Kings and Jack's.

07:04Ten's old.

07:06Great.

07:07I bet.

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