Royal Flush beats Quad Aces! Justin Phillips vs Motoyuki Mabuchi is one of the best showdown hands in poker legend. With the TV cameras following Ray Romano to one of the outer tables at the WSOP, they catch possibly the sickest beat in the game, when Mabuchi hits the ace of diamonds for quad aces on the river and shoves all-in.

We introduce the show and then talk: The ultimate bad beat that's been going viral - quads vs quads vs straight flush (0-11:40), The WSOP quad aces vs royal flush hand w/ Ray Romano (11:40-14:40), our own personal worst poker beat stories (14:40-22:15), radio and poker superstar Cakes with great insight from the mind of an amateur player who went deep in a Main Event (22:15-55:00), we recap.
THE GRAND is a Royal Flush!!! Known 'poker players' Jason Alexander and Ray Romano are in there. Woody Harrelson is in the lead as One Eyed Jack. He's trying to win the tournament in order to.

For the fourth consecutive year, Ray Romano played in the World Series of Poker main event. Unfortunately for the comedic actor, it also marked the fourth consecutive year he failed to make the money as he was unable to make it through day 1.

However, Romano took time out of one of breaks to talk to Card Player about his home poker game, the rambunctious Brad Garrett, and his new show on TNT.

“I played as a teenager,” Romano said about his start in poker. “I would play with my buddies in Queens, and now we’ve got a home game with the boys once a month.”

That home game includes Garrett, who played Romano’s brother in the hit CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.

Garrett has become a bit of a regular at the high-profile, celebrity poker events in recent years, often stealing and securing the spotlight with his booming voice and provocative jokes.

Romano admits his former co-star isn’t exactly that way in their home games.

“He tweaks it a little. Once there’s a crowd, it’s his energy source,” said Romano. “He goes in spurts. But we have to censor him sometimes, even in our home game.”

Everybody might love Raymond, but no one seemed to have a problem taking his chips. Romano drew a tougher than average table draw on day 1A, sitting to the right of last year’s $40,000-event winner, Vitaly Lunkin.

After his pocket jacks failed to hold up against an opponent’s A-K, Romano got the last of his chips in with middle pair against an opponent’s straight-flush draw. That straight flush came on the river with ESPN’s cameras rolling, making it likely that the TV star gets some added face time on ESPN later this year.

Micro stakes online poker sites. Romano was sporting a hat with the title of his new TNT show, Men of a Certain Age.

Ray Romano Poker Royal Flush Toilet

“It’s about three men my age, which is about twice you,” said Romano, accurately guessing the interviewer’s age. “Take your age and double it, it’s just [about] life.”

Romano says it’s certainly different to star in a TNT show, as opposed to one of the major networks.

“Money-wise, it’s like going from the World Series event to pitching pennies against the wall,” said Romano. “But that’s not to say it’s not where I want to be, because creatively they give us our freedom and they take care of the shows. In that aspect, we haven’t sacrificed anything.”

The second season of Men of a Certain Age begins in the fall. According to Romano, the show is under contract for four seasons.

The TV star is just one of many celebrities to play in the World Series of Poker. Seinfeld (and more recently Curb Your Enthusiasm) star Jason Alexander made a deep run in last year’s main event, and NBA star Shawn Marion also joined Romano in this year’s day 1A field just one year after the L.A. Lakers’ Jordan Farmar competed in the event.

A plethora of celebrities once again showed up to support the WSOP’s Ante Up for Africa charity event this year, including Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Shannon Elizabeth, Jerome Bettis, Don Cheadle, Evander Holyfield, Montel Williams, and Jeff French.

Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time playing poker knows that bad beats happen – maybe your aces get cracked, or you lose some important coin-flip hands. Sometimes the deck just runs out in such a way that you’re forced to go broke with the second-best hand. It happens.

It rarely happens quite like this, though.

Aces vs. aces for a cool $1 million

What’s the biggest buy-in tournament you’ve ever played? Ever taken a shot at the $215 Weekly Sunday Guarantee on WSOP.com? (You can’t play PA online poker or at PA online casinos yet, but you may be be able to next year, if the legislature passes a law this fall.)

Well, imagine playing a tournament with a buy-in almost 5,000 times that. A hefty $1 million entry fee to the World Series of Poker’s Big One For One Drop made it the largest-ever WSOP event.

Playing in that tournament is really, really, really not a great time to offend the poker gods, which is what Conor Drinan must have done to have been on the receiving end of this extremely cruel bad beat.

Ray Romano Poker Royal Flush Parts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO86oLN3ZsU

Straight outta Hollywood

Ray Romano Poker Royal Flush Machine

Often, poker movies get a lot of stick from fans of the game for their unrealistic showdowns – quads against full house against flush, more straight flushes than you can shake a stick at… it would just never happen in real life, would it?

Don’t tell that to Justin Phillips, who scooped a huge pot at the 2008 WSOP Main Event after rivering a royal flush against nothing less than four aces. To top off the Hollywood vibe of the hand, Ray Romano was there to witness this 1 in 2.7 billion event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XunAlp2azhA

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The moment poker went mainstream

It seems like poker has always been on TV, and that the game has always been a staple of online casinos.

Before 2003, poker was pretty niche – that all changed with the man bearing the aptronym to end all aptronyms, Chris Moneymaker. The amateur player made it all the way to the heads-up stage of the 2003 WSOP, playing for a first prize of $2.5 million.

Playing against Sam Farha, who looked every bit the poker professional with his sharp suits and cigars, Moneymaker proved a more than formidable opponent as this ballsy bluff shows.

Chris went on to win the whole tournament, and it’s him you have to thank for being able to play online at WSOP.com.

Ray Romano Poker Royal Flush Kit

A million-dollar cold deck

In this super-high-stakes showdown, with blinds of $1,000/$2,000 and six-figure chip stacks, action was inevitable.

What no one expected was the largest pot ever televised, as Phil Ivey and Tom “durrrr” Dwan contested a hand worth $1,108,500 in real dollars. It took the world’s most fortuitous card to give both players a monster hand, and the fallout was immense.