Poker | I Don't Know About That with Jim Jefferies

In this episode, the team discusses poker with professional poker player, comedian, and host of the Tournament Poker Edge podcast, Clayton Fletcher.
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[@dash-x]

I’m surprised Jim hasn’t said “Poker in the front, liquor in the back!” 😹🤭

[@agentorange81]

Was gonna say that so i went with " I hardly know her "

[@maxmotors9497]

Liquor in the rear.😢

[@nickharmer3049]

I'm from England & we've had 52 cards in a deck, for hundreds of years. Fantastic podcast, as per usual. Always appreciated. Bless 👊

[@jewsco]

The ironic thing is the poker rooms in casinos were more full when online poker was a thing

[@tinystamp2742]

Pretty sure it's more of a thing now than in the early 2000s

[@jewsco]

@@tinystamp2742 no they aren’t as full and they spread less games . You could find Omaha high low , 7 card stud, limit hold ‘em at all different limits high and low. Now it’s just no limit

[@DanEFresh100]

When it comes to poker in the front and liquor in the rear I would have thought Jim would know a lot about that!

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

A fun video is watching Ray Romano sitting at a table where one play has AAAA vs. a single opponent with a Royal Flush. It was already an awesome video, and the fact that Romano was there to comment on it was the cherry on top. He didn't even stutter.

[@ShredCo]

Mabuchi had quad aces.

[@FOREVERGREEN_MUSIC]

Don’t you need an ace for a royal flush?

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

@@FOREVERGREEN_MUSIC Yes, but the player was using the A that was on the board (one of five cards available to either player in order to make their hand).

[@jamiestewart7327]

This podcast must pay enough for... it to continue? Look forward to the next special 👍🏽

[@sparkywatts3072]

Aces and eights. The hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered in Deadwood. AKA "The dead mans hand"

[@lemmy9942]

the only answer I knew and I know it because of motorhead

[@skoll_5682]

6pm Melbourne time. My Hungry Jacks Now seems like utter shite. Good to see ya gang. Thanks.

[@dryherbvoter]

I think I requested this episode. Thank you again. Guessing cards is more difficult in poker than in blackjack. The more you play a game, the easier it is to win. Just keep your head on amount of players and possible arrangements of cards dealt to get a possible win. If I ever do play in public casino I will try to remember to keep my emotional and physical reactions restrained.

[@ShredCo]

Guessing cards is easier in poker? Hahah

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

17:15 Jim says "Holy hell Caroline!" haha.... did he mean "Clayton"?

[@tinystamp2742]

No it was a joke that went over your head, I also see you misspelled "violinist"

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

@@tinystamp2742 Thanks for the troll. actually play viola - so I'm a *violist* , not primarily a violinist. So you never saw me "misspell" violinist". As for Jim's joke... no sorry, I didn't get it, but if you couldn't explain it - that would be good.

[@ragnarlodbrok9186]

@@tinystamp2742 I see you have committed a comma splice.

[@saar144]

I wished they had mentioned the movie Maverick and how convoluted it was.

[@paulclissold1525]

Lookin fir a new cast best wishes forrest.

[@claysanford2648]

Oh that mango in 🇹🇭 Thailand is similar to a creme broulay. 😆

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

Correction 1:00:16 ... uh, you *can* buy back in up to a certain point! If you lose your very first hand you're allowed one or maybe two "re-buys". After a certain point such as 'Day 3' then no, you wouldn't be able to buy back in as you would be given a small star vs. a huge stack and that's just unfair (to you) and taking up space at the tables.

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

A tournament where you can't "buy back in" is call a *Freeze-Out* ... and I haven't seen one of these at the WSOP for a long time.

[@johnny207]

You can’t rebuy in the main event! Even if you were bad enough to lose 60,000 in your first hand.

[@kcc-karenschroniccorner9432]

@@johnny207you don’t necessarily have to be bad to get it all in on the first hand. Eric Roberts (Julia Roberts brother) lost on hand one with boat over boat. Hard to get away from that one.

[@armrule]

5-5 is Tom Cruise. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

My ol mate Richard did Green eggs and Ham at a cafe

[@korgothkillings2032]

I googled most of the stuff on the show. Lots of it was wrong. The invention of 52 card deck. And couple of other things. Chinese made cards in 1000 ad. The common deck we use today 1360s ad

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

That's more Hedonism than debauchery

[@titustiger27]

I had a Chinese couple make me dinner and when we got to dessert they were so excited... they had wrapped dough around peanut butter.. and boiled in water... it was sweet, but so slilmey

[@flnthrn2]

You can go to the bar in Deadwood where the dude was shot holding the "deadman's hand" (I was seven, I could be wrong)

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

When are you coming to England?

[@chrispedraza9145]

There's no way pokers the most lucrative sport even with payouts. Highest paid qbs are making a quarter billion dollars on their contracts

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Australian's are known for having such particular palettes

[@angryhairpeice]

10/4 off suit wins a surprising amount of the time.

[@hakke3218]

Have you tried J4?

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Made with Parmesan cheese and basil pesto

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Sometimes a Bluff is needed

[@emcdonald85]

Jim, I'll play the main event with you. I'll even pick up dinner. I'm a decent hang.

[@ShredCo]

You're asking him out?

[@skoll_5682]

Green Mitzis…..will it be fun or will it be a hard night? Who cares, you’re at Dome 🤩

[@billd7120]

Puck is what Canadians call the button.

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Mango lassi with Indian food

[@EwokPanda]

Jim out here ignoring gulab jamun, one of the greatest desserts of all time (and I'm guessing, as most do, forgetting India is an Asian country).

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

NZ is good in Summer

[@gusgus8134]

I miss poker!

[@ShredCo]

Go play a game.

[@saar144]

Jim got so salty about his score, when finally he was graded fairly. He’s like a kid who sucks at sports used to get participation trophies, that gets upset for not receiving one after losing. I love it.

[@gart9680]

Sticky toffee pudding and cream or apple crumble or pie with cream or steamed strawberry pudding and cream or pear and ginger pudding and cream...

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Where is betterhelp based?

[@ragnarlodbrok9186]

72 is called either the hammer or the whip (worst hand in poker). Thought the longest game would be Nick the Greek vs Johnny Moss but I guess Clayton's answer makes sense. Cool fact about the Earl of Sandwich.

[@oysteintiktaalikson2885]

Isn't Angola prison in Louisiana?

[@dickjoe]

Yes. They completely screwed that anecdote up.

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Fingerprint

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

This ain't my first rodeo

[@k.l.schiller8200]

There's a hot girl PLAYING at some big games and she's really frickin nice. Victoria Coren Mitchell. She's a brilliant comedian as well.

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Hestan is a great Chef

[@petersutcliffe4927]

Why doesn't anyone ever schedule a show on a weekend? I really want to get to the Columbus show, but I have to get up at 530 Friday morning so, just like always-- probably not gonna make it!

[@delarue3198]

Hi 👋

[@godfathery2kgaming324]

Hi

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

I thought his Name was Calvin

[@sithonsithon1012]

Doesn't dave chappelle live in that area

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

I need a new desktop PC

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

I've won more on Yellow than on Red

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Nintendo started as a card company

[@korgothkillings2032]

Black aces an eights with the ten of clubs kicker

[@BradGryphonn]

Fkn Honey. Yes, I use it but the required blurb of 'I never recommend something I don't use' is just so much moo poo. But hey, I use Honey based on one of your promos so I guess it works.

[@marcbeebee6969]

Jim you can get a VPN and set it to Germany and then you are good to go online gambling. * not legal advice * Germany, land of the free 🤣

[@markcarey67]

The 52 card deck goes back hundreds of years (before 1000 AD) and was originally based on a simplified version of the tarot deck which is much older still.

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Mochi is pretty tasty

[@davidisrael9799]

Why wouldn't you call pocket 8s, Piano Man?!

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

As a pro poker (made my living for 2 years by *only* playing poker at my local casino [with 5 years of previous experience]. I've never don't online poker and don't plan to. I like to read people and socialise etc. N.B. Daniel Negreanu defines a pro poker player as "someone who uses it as their sole income and or plays it on the side of there day-job and continues to profit from poker in the long term."

[@officialsqeek]

So it's said poker was invented in New Orleans in 1829, but John Montagu (the Earl of Sandwich credited with the invention of the sandwich) died in 1792 and never stood foot on American soil. It may have been cards he was playing, but not poker by this logic.

[@emdiar6588]

He was not credited with inventing anything at the time, and he certainly never claimed to have invented putting food between bread. That is just what some people accuse him of these days. He was just well known for eating his meals that way so he could continue gambling (not poker according to the chronology), so his name became synonymous with it. Hitler wasn't the first person to have a 'toothbrush moustache, but now we call it a Hitler moustache. Davy Crockett wasn't the first person to make a hat out of a raccoon pelt. Moses wasn't the first baby to be put in a ' Moses basket'. Humphrey Bogart wasn't the first person to keep a cigarette permanently in his mouth, but he gave his name to hogging a spliff because of it. It's not always who invents a thing. It's who is most associated with it that counts, and if it sticks, that's the name of it.

[@agentorange81]

"I hardly know her!" Lol but I Say people are more worried half the people voted obvious bad guy rejects of WWE and that's the depression as side effect

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Gordon needs to relax

[@davidtodd3401]

Do baked goods count as deserts? The Vietnamese bakery near my place does strudels and croissants and stuff are fucking immense

[@slidewayzgreer2740]

That would be French Vietnamese cooking

[@davidtodd3401]

@@slidewayzgreer2740 so, by Vietnamese people. Thank you for repeating what I said 😂

[@woltervandenberg]

The dead mans hand is A-8 of spades to be specific

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

Good knowledge! You're correct.

[@mr.bachooga5503]

Columbus sucks, you should have chose Cincinnati.

[@TheWindynook]

Stu Unger was the best player

[@malindawhite1039]

Malinda from Columbus Ohio here... Jim ...we hate this place..not much for venturing around our own shit hole...I mean you've been here right?! Lol ..unless it's a game weekend..those " buck fucks" as I call them go out by convoy in the masses.

[@davidhill2020]

Fletcher might be a good poker player, but he doesn't have over $500k in tournament winnings (according to the Hendon Mob Database). Take away his two WSOP ME finishes and we're down to about $150k, which I wouldn't say no to, but I'm guessing he makes the bulk of his money elsewhere. If he makes a living as a poker player, he does it in cash games.

[@johnny207]

What are on about? He’s cashed for $433,000. Talking about taking out main event cashes! ffs man. I’ve listened to his TE podcast for year’s, he’s an exceptional good profitable player. He also wins online which is considerably harder than live.

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

Biggest win: Antonio Esfandiari in the One Drop who took his glasses off before they would potentially get smashed when his friends raced to hug him. And you can see it on the video. Also his father was there to hug him which was a very emotional moment. If you can call me a fan of any two things other than classical music: Poker and Jim Jefferies ahaha :P

[@mdimo77]

I thought Jims leg was growing out of his stomach

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

Not yet a doctor

[@davidhill2020]

42:25 55 is actually known as "Presto," presumably because they look like jazz hands when you hold them up. 42:55 72 is called the beer hand, for reasons I couldn't tell you 58:20 The first ballot, there was a massive tie because everyone voted for themselves. When they had a second one and said that you couldn't, Johnny Moss won

[@johnny207]

3 years of wearing black. 😂

[@declaredjeans7555]

Man, that camera angle was annoying..

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

Poker angles are more annoying ;)

[@Arthur_Pendragon2022]

No one gets Reservations like the Natives

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Haha wow asif yanks can't play poker for money online. We don't have that issue in England. VPNs are your friends yankidoodledandies

[@BraniusBalki]

I want your little friend to hook up with Jessica. The only link I have is they are Grateful Dead fans. She is gorgeous.

[@davidtodd3401]

For the record, the US/Canada is the second largest viewership market in world cricket behind India. There's a huge market for it, just no professional league

[@Mannsy83]

Jim is such a weak man. Pay him couple bucks and he will take any side you say

[@jefflabbecomedy]

This is a podcast episode about card games, sir.

[@DinoAlberini]

6 years ago, millions of views, now about 20k. People don’t like cheaters.

[@daddysnowflake8186]

what are you on about? this one of the most popular podcasts in the world

[@DinoAlberini]

@@daddysnowflake8186 barely braking 20k per episode is considered “popular” now? I’ve seen light bulb removing tutorials with better ratings.

[@daddysnowflake8186]

@@DinoAlberini vast majority of the audience is audio only. Those light bulb tutorials don't postv weekly either and aren't an hour long. You're just showing your ignorance

[@dash-x]

I love this podcast. It’s soo fun and different. I’d also love to see Jim go on “ *Are you Garbage* !” I like to imagine if in another universe I was to ever be on what my expertise would be. My degree is boring normal Anthropology with a minor focused on evolutionary linguistics focusing on the Breton language preservation…which I don’t think would make for a fun time😹 However, if I were to pick I’d like to do either Crafting with cat fur, or Planners. Which are my favorite hobbies. 😼🫶🏻