Stories From The Felt S01E01 ACEHiGH

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00:00I lost one night, 1.37 million.

00:05My parents never make this kind of money for all their life.

00:09And then you have the day that I won 1.78 million in eight hours.

00:14And then you leave this place and you think, nobody can touch you.

00:17You are the best pro poker player in the world.

00:23Bobby Baldwin is trying to decide what he's going to do.

00:26And let's see, there may, uh-oh, he is also going to make a big raise here.

00:31$86,000 raise he has in the hole, a pair of nines.

00:36The big game started well before all of our times.

00:40I believe it started at the Golden Nugget.

00:43Vegas has obviously changed a lot in the last 40 years.

00:46But the game moved to the Mirage.

00:48That was the office, that's literally what they called the Mirage.

00:51And then they knocked down the dunes, they built the Bellagio,

00:54and that became the new office, Bobby's Room.

00:58Do you remember the first time you played in Bobby's Room?

01:00I do remember the first time I played in Bobby's Room.

01:02I was 21 and it was, uh, it was quite an experience.

01:06You know, whoa, I mean, uh...

01:08It's a very interesting place.

01:10You really have a collection of talented players,

01:13degenerate gamblers, chiseled old veterans.

01:16You have new guys.

01:17You have guys like me that are sort of in the middle, I guess, at this point.

01:20But one thing that all these people have in common is some desire to play stakes like this.

01:26I mean, the money that we transfer over there is just scary.

01:30It's a tough game.

01:31The swings are ridiculous and people win and lose a lot of money.

01:34The games are open to everybody who can afford to play at those stakes.

01:38So, it doesn't matter who you are, you can play.

01:40A guy walked in, he got like Middle Eastern look and he's shaking.

01:45He got chips in his pocket and he's playing with them.

01:47And he said, oh, oh, Doyle Bronstone.

01:50Oh, I see you on TV, I see you.

01:52So, we're looking and he said, hello, how are you?

01:55You know, we're trying to be...

01:56He said, good, I want to play with you.

01:58Those chips that he's playing with is $100,000 cheap.

02:00He has 17 of them.

02:01Two and a half hours later, he left with nothing.

02:04Only because he wanted to play with us.

02:07He was one of those chic, you know, from Saudi Arabia or whatever.

02:11How do you deal with the emotional turmoil of those stakes?

02:15That's a good question.

02:17The way I handle big swings is I don't let myself have big swings.

02:22I hurt when I lose 50 cents and that's...

02:25It's my job and it's what I do now for a long time.

02:29So, you learn how to cope with it.

02:31I have an ongoing joke with Phil Hellmuth when he has a tirade

02:35and he screams and cries and rolls on the floor.

02:37You have a lot of useful stuff to say, don't you?

02:39And I say, Phil, nobody understands but you and me.

02:41And that's kind of serious.

02:43I'm pretty freaking upset too when I lose.

02:45I don't think anybody in that situation can be robotic.

02:48We try, but, you know, we're human.

02:51So, Bobby's room, you know, there's a lot of stuff happened in there that, you know...

02:58I was in a pot one time where there was a fight at the table

03:02which involved someone's stack getting slid into the pot.

03:06Chips were everywhere going in everybody's stack, you know,

03:09we're in the middle of this pot.

03:10Like, I wanted to tell the guy, like, listen, pal, I got a straight flush.

03:13You know, it's just like, do I have to wear the poker face for an hour here?

03:16I mean, it's like...

03:17I wound up winning the pot.

03:18It took 45 minutes for everybody to stack their chips up, but then, you know...

03:23But on the other hand, everybody's, you know, good friends.

03:29So, I remember, like, I think the New Yorker was doing an article on Bobby's room

03:33and he actually pulled me aside and said,

03:35are you guys playing for real money?

03:37Because everybody was laughing and having fun

03:40and, like, it didn't seem like anybody was taking anything seriously.

03:44I went broke and left the game.

03:47He came outside without me saying anything

03:50and he had what we call a flag chip.

03:53It's a $5,000 chip.

03:54He said, looks like you can use this for now.

03:58So, you're not asking.

04:00So, that happens more often in poker world than you can possibly imagine.

04:05One flag chip?

04:07Was it more?

04:09Anyone that plays with each other all the time,

04:11even if you don't really like them, you know,

04:13you see them and it's, like, it's just all love

04:15because it's, like, we do the same stuff all the time together,

04:18you know, and it's a bond.

04:20It's a deep bond.

04:23We all chose this.

04:24We know what stakes we're playing.

04:26We know the kind of personalities that enter this room

04:28and there's going to be some shrewd, ruthless, calculated,

04:31cold-blooded decision-making in there

04:33and there's also going to be some very warm feelings,

04:35some great times and the whole thing rolls into one.

04:38Fear To One.

04:55Fear To One.

05:00Fear To One.

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