[ Man ] Some of the best poker players in the world have survived...
to battle for the 2009 Poker World Championship ring.
Let's meet your host, the most powerfuI man on the Las Vegas Strip...
the owner of the Nouveau Royale Hotel and Casino, Hugh Ellis.
- How are you? - [ No AudibIe DiaIogue ]
Let's meet the pIayers. First up is the IoveIy Poppy WeIIs.
Poppy brings a sizable chip stack...
and quite a view to the final table.
And here comes the Russian pIayboy, Vas BeIanov.
I appreciate your heIp, Mr. Tostevin.
I get paid for my services, kid.
No thanks required.
Get a good night's sIeep. The hard work starts tomorrow, okay?
In his sixth finaI tabIe appearance...
it is my honor to introduce to you from SpringfieId, Massachusetts...
poker legend Mason Brock.
[ Men Chattering ]
[ Man ] lt's none of your business.
After a naiI-biter showdown with Ricky Nguyen to make it to this finaI tabIe...
here comes the rock star of the South American poker scene...
Amadeo VaIdez.
- [ Tostevin ] Wait. - [ Man ] Get out of here.
No. Don't.
[ Man ] And last, but definitely not least...
the lone amateur to make it to the final table...
the goIden boy from Evergreen Park, IIIinois.
Where's that, you ask? No one knows.
This kid came out of nowhere to sweep through the earIy rounds...
and emerge as the chip leader.
It's been three months since he conquered over 6,000 pIayers...
to make it to this, the finaI tabIe...
of the 2009 Poker World Championship.
Ladies and gentIemen, Jake Hartman.
[ Drumroll ]
- Where the heII is the kid? - Missing.
And you Iot are the prime suspects in his disappearance.
[ Mason Chuckles ] l'll be damned.
- Never thought I'd Iive to see it. - See what?
The day they'd Iet CaI Lightman back in Vegas.
[ Man ] Dream, send me a sign
Turn back the clock
Give me some time
l need to break out
Make a new name
Let's open our eyes
To the brand-new day
If you don't cooperate fuIIy with Dr. Lightman...
you won't be at the final table when we go live in 32 hours.
You got it? They're all yours.
ProfessionaI Iiars.
That's a treat. l think l'll start with Jake first, actually.
I'd Iike to see his room, meet the missus.
CaI, there is a time pressure here.
And if anyone from the final table is involved...
folks are gonna say the championship is rigged.
I couId Iose the whoIe thing to another casino. Worst case, I Iose my gaming Iicense.
- Oh, we can't have that, can we? - Here's the deaI:
Find Jake. Get him to the finaI tabIe. There's a haIf miIIion bonus in it for you.
- Why is he so important to you again? - I just toId you.
[ Cal ] Thank you very much.
- [ Woman Screaming ] - Here you go.
So, what's the history with these two?
- EIIis had Lightman banned from Vegas. - The entire city?
CaI won a Iot of money from some very important customers.
His scientific abiIities weren't considered sporting.
Yeah, well, you ban somebody from an entire city, that's personal.
WeII, there may have been a situation with EIIis's girIfriend at the time.
Vegas doesn't bring out the best in Cal.
Ben, keep an eye on him whiIe we're here.
And don't Iet him gambIe. Okay?
Why? So he won't win?
He wins at poker, but it's no fun for him.
- What's his game? - RouIette.
UnpredictabIe, pureIy driven by chance...
and the worst odds in the casino.
Hmm.
[ People Cheering ]
God, I miss this.
Think I'II put a bet on it.
I did not bring you here to induIge your bad habit.
And you'II be stopped if you try to Ieave my property.
- What, you don't want your buddies to find out? - It's Vegas. They aIready know.
But it's better for the both of us if you keep a Iow profiIe.
[ Cheering ]
- That's my cue. I'II see you suckers Iater. - No, no. Where you going?
Hey, a free private pIane ride to Vegas. My mama didn't raise no fooI.
And as far as I can teII, there's no crime here, so-
Hey, I brought you here to work.
Yeah, and I'II work when there's something for me to do.
But untiI then, right now I'm feeIing Iucky, okay?
Hey, l'm not done with you yet.
Say, ''But I'm done with you.'' Say it Ioud.
- But I'm done with you! - Yeah, good. Now, take this.
Put it aII on doubIe zero on the rouIette, aII right?
- AII of it? - Yeah, aII of it.
- The whoIe thing? - Yeah. Don't Iet Foster find out.
AII right?
- You beIieve that guy? - Let's go, Lightman.
- Your husband is a star. - Jake wouId never just Ieave us.
He Ioves us. PIease find him.
WeII, I think you shouId just caII the poIice.
If you think that's necessary, CaI...
but I think you're more than quaIified to find him yourseIf.
This one toId you not to, didn't he?
Macey just didn't think it was necessary once l hired you.
Right. Here's the thing.
Mr. EIIis here doesn't want the poIice invoIved because your husband's a commodity...
and one he's put a lot of effort into packaging.
He wants him back at the finaI tabIe, but without the bad pubIicity.
He said the poIice wouIdn't take me seriousIy.
People wander off in Vegas all the time, he said.
Yeah, weII, that bit's true too.
I just wanted us aII to be cIear on the motives here, you know?
- Yeah? - A second?
There's a young man missing. Let's focus on that...
and not on EIIis or anything from the past, okay?
One job in Vegas isn't going to turn me back into an inveterate gambIer.
Of course not, but you have to understand the puII that this town has on you.
- Things change. - Mm. But peopIe don't.
You're smothering. There's no smothering in Vegas.
- TeII me about the Iast time you saw your husband. - Two nights ago.
He'd been running practice hands for hours, and I was going to bed...
and he said he had to run to the Iobby and meet one of the other pIayers.
That was it.
I think you're right. I don't think your husband wouId Ieave on his own.
He Ioves us so much- me and the baby.
AIso, he Ioves this.
AII right, now, you four are some of the best Iiars in the worId, right?
You have to be. Otherwise, you wouIdn't be sitting at this tabIe, wouId you?
I've got to teII you up front, it's not gonna be a fair fight.
You can dodge aII you Iike, but come down to it, I'm gonna win.
[ Chuckles ] Just ask Mason what it's like to tangle with me.
You used to be a heII of a Iot more fun in the oId days, CaI.
My experience- a young guy like this...
about to win a couple of million bucks...
either finding himseIf in God or Iosing himseIf in a woman.
- Search the Bunny Ranch. - [ Ben ] The old-timer's got a point there.
I'II be right back.
Yeah. You are a winner, my friend.
Nice one. It was doubIe zero, right?
Nah, I wasn't feeIing that. I put it on 1 4, my mother's birthday.
I toId you to put it aII on doubIe zero.
So, you'd rather Iose with your number than win with mine?
- Yeah. Yeah, something Iike that, yeah. - Yeah, that makes no sense.
Yeah?
- Go back and do it again. Go on. Buzz off. - [ Scoffs ]
Right. Uh-
WeII, Iet's, uh, start with you. Mason.
What'd you do to the kid?
The kid's no threat to me. Why wouId I do anything to him?
WeII, an empty chair at the tabIe earns you an extra 500 grand...
pIus a better shot at the eight and a haIf miIIion.
Everyone here wins and loses millions every day. No big deal.
- Vas thinks he's unbeatable. - l am.
How many investors do you have? Huh?
l don't need money from other people to bet.
- That's why I'm the best. - Yeah, even after five vodka tonics?
Hmm? What?
AII right, what does it say about you Iot...
that an lllinois farm boy can come out here with no experience...
no investors, no craft...
and sIaughter you?
l am so leaving work early, maybe get a pedicure on the way home.
- It's good we're not in Vegas. - Oh, I can catch up on my reading.
- I have a date tonight. - Oh.
A third date. Oh!
- [ Doug ] Come on. - Sorry, Doug.
With a girI? A human girI?
Oh, ha-ha. You're so... not funny.
Foster sent us a video fiIe to score.
WeII, one fiIe shouIdn't take too Iong.
- [ Beeping ] - Oh, no.
- I hope your date's patient. - [ Beeping Continues ]
No.
You feeIing a IittIe guiIty there, Poppy?
Am I feeIing guiIty? Or sad? They're quite simiIar, aren't they?
Jake is my friend. ShouIdn't I be feeIing sad that he's missing?
- What happened to him? - Do you miss Vegas?
[ Sighs ] No.
WeII, yeah. No, I Iied.
Yeah. Yeah, just a little bit.
- Don't teII anyone, right? - You can trust me.
- TeII me the truth. - Can't you see the truth?
You can't, can you?
You can't read me, and you Iike that. You Iike my poker face, Dr. Lightman?
[ InhaIes ] Okay, the truth.
Jake's had three months to imagine pIaying at the finaI tabIe and everything it means.
His whole life is gonna change. He just wanted to talk to somebody...
somebody who's gonna tell him it's all gonna be okay.
He trusted you.
So I met him at a IittIe pIace down the Strip...
made him feeI better for haIf an hour and Ieft.
How many times in the Iast three months did you manipuIate his confidence...
in the guise of being his friend?
I wouIdn't manipuIate Jake.
Whoa. ExceIIent.
That's righteous indignation. It's aIso totaI nonsense. I think you worked him.
I think you did everything you couId to convince him...
that winning was more of a curse than a bIessing...
to get an advantage at the finaI tabIe.
I mean, it's briIIiant, as far as strategies go.
Maybe I shouIdn't have toId you.
WeII, you had to. I mean, you need me to trust you, right?
So you shared a haIf-truth.
Cal, a call just came in to the production phone.
- Go ahead, Bob. PIay it back. - [ Beeps ]
[ Man ] We have Jake Hartman.
We'll return him for two million dollars.
This is very small amount of money compared to what the casino earns.
Would advise you not tell the police. We'll call back in three hours.
Mrs. Hartman, kidnapping makes this a federaI case...
and I've got the Las Vegas F.B. I. fieId office running at fuII speed.
Why wouId anyone take my husband?
WeII, most IikeIy it's someone who knows...
that Mr. EIIis is wiIIing to pay to have Jake at the finaI tabIe.
Mr. EIIis is going to pay? Two miIIion doIIars?
The money is being bagged as we speak.
And I'II be anaIyzing the ransom caII.
We're going to figure out who did this.
We're going to do everything we can to get your husband back.
Where's Dr. Lightman?
Why two miIIion doIIars? Eh?
I mean, EIIis is wiIIing to pay it, but... two miIIion doIIars?
Is that rage, Mr. VaIdez?
[ Laughs ] No.
WeII, you're upset, aren't you, that EIIis is wiIIing to drop two miIIion to get the kid back?
ls that it?
How Iong is this going to take? Me and my boys, we have a cIub opening to get to.
All this guy cares about is cash and parties. No respect for the game.
That's not true. I aIso care about fame and girIs...
and, of course, vodka.
Go Iose some money. Go on. Buzz off.
HeIIo, beautifuI Iady.
lt's not gonna happen, Vas. She's too good for you.
- The way she waIks, she's too good for anyone. - That's not nice, Poppy.
Nice isn't fun.
Oh, Iook at that. That's what we caII a macroexpression.
She may as weII stick her tongue down his throat.
No. She wants something from him.
WeII, maybe she's just attracted to him.
[ Scoffs ] You are such an innocent, Loker.
TeII me. This girI that you're dating, where do you take her?
Uh, tonight, Luigi's.
- Last week, Meridiana. The week before that- - No, no, no.
You're doing this aII wrong. How do you not know this?
Okay, I know a Iot...
about dating.
You think you are getting lucky tonight, don't you?
Well, you are not.
A hundred bucks says she's dating you for the five-star food.
Okay. If we're gonna bet, I want your office for one week.
WeII, in that case, I want your ant farm.
It's a bet.
- I'm Ietting Amadeo go. - No, no. Don't do that.
The ransom caII is Ioaded with syntacticaI anomaIies.
I'd expect more use of idiom, for one thing.
And it seems aImost edited.
l think the person we're looking for, his first language isn't English.
WeII, I'm getting nothing from him.
- Well, what are you getting from her, other than Iust? - Excuse me?
WeII, she's stiII a suspect.
She's the femaIe equivaIent of rouIette, and you Iike the view.
WeII, it's a very nice view.
You're smothering again.
Right, Amadeo. Wake up. Wake up. [ Snapping Fingers ]
You can go.
Are you seriousIy keeping me here?
Yeah. You should consider that a compliment, Mason.
- Adios, amigos. - [ Cal ] Adios.
- WeII, I'm happy to stay near Miss Foster. - Yeah, I'II bet you are.
- The kidnappers just caIIed with the ransom drop. - AII right, Iet's go.
[ Beeping ]
[ Ben ] Okay, that's our guy coming out with the ransom money.
AII right, the bag is in pIace. Let me get a ''ready'' from everybody.
- [ Agent # 1 ] Ready. - [ Agent #2 ] Ready. - [ Agent #3 ] Ready.
The kidnappers wiII know that there are surveiIIance cameras covering this whoIe area.
They'II have a strategy. Keep your eyes open. Stay focused.
Oh, hey, before l forget-
You're a big winner. CongratuIations.
- DoubIe zero, right? - Yeah, doubIe zero.
Hey. What number did you bet on?
Twenty-three. Hey, it's MichaeI Jordan and LeBron James's number.
- What do you want me to do? - I toId you doubIe zero. Here.
Listen. Do you not get that I'm Mr. Lucky? Do you want to Iose?
You do not walk up to a roulette table and just bet it on double zero.
- You got to feeI it out. - Nonsense.
Yeah, weII, this stack of money in my hands says otherwise. HoId up.
What are Amadeo's boys doing here?
- HaiIing a taxi. - WeII, Iisten up. I did some digging.
The day before Jake disappeared, Amadeo switched rooms.
- His new room is right next to Jake's. - Amadeo's not invoIved in this.
WeII, Iooks Iike you just got pIayed, Doc.
These have got to be the dumbest kidnappers in the worId.
- Move in. Move in. - [ Agent ] Copy that. Moving in.
Get out of the cab! Freeze! F.B. I.
Put your hands on the roof! Turn around!
Put your hands on the roof!
- [ Pounding ] - Amadeo VaIdez!
Open up!
- [ Hard Rock ] - Put your hands up!
Put your hands where I can see 'em!
- Put your damn hands up! - What is this?
You know what the heII this is. Cuff him.
What- Why are you doing this?
[ Continues ]
[ Continues Quietly ]
[ QuietIy ] Lightman.
- What? - He's meticuIous.
- Footage of the other pIayers. - [ Cal ] He's been studying 'em.
- [ Beeps ] - Texting your entourage to pick up the ransom?
You're not too swift.
- Who's in the next room? - Jake. I toId you that aIready.
No, no, no, no. No.
Not that one. That one.
You know what my favorite poker phrase is?
I don't know. ''AII in''?
''Open Iimp''? ''The nuts''?
On tiIt.
It's so expressive.
- You want a puII? It's Amadeo's. - Don't drink.
Yeah, you do.
OnIy an amateur Iets frustration interfere with his game theory.
You'd think. Here.
Have a drink.
I insist.
[ Ben ] That's right.
It's water. OIdest trick in the book.
But Amadeo soId you it, didn't he?
- He's a Iiar. - Yeah.
A fantastic Iiar, actuaIIy.
When you thought he was partying next door, he was wearing noise-reduction headphones...
and mapping out a strategy for every possibIe hand.
Amadeo knows every pIay at that finaI tabIe inside and out.
But you're the one he considers a threat.
- I guess I'm fIattered. - Fake drinking, constant taIk of partying...
changing his room to torture you with hideous music-
it's aII caIcuIated to drive you nuts.
He wanted you on tiIt at the finaI tabIe.
But you tiIted ahead of scheduIe, didn't you?
[ Eli's Voice ] So has Lightman broken down the old man yet?
No. But he wiII.
WeII, maybe I can be the hero of the day then.
This... was taken earIier this afternoon.
Watch Mason's hands.
Now you see the cell phone. Now you don't.
Now you do again.
[ Laughs ]
Ta-da.
We've got it aII on video, Mason.
You paImed Amadeo's ceII phone and texted his boys to pick up the ransom bag.
I'm not making it to the finaI tabIe, am I?
- No. I'm afraid not. - Come on. It was a prank.
I messed with Amadeo, he messed with me.
You faked a kidnapping to give yourseIf a Ieg up to win $8.5 miIIion.
That's not a prank. That's a crime.
It wasn't about the money, though, was it?
You didn't think that Amadeo deserved to sit at the finaI tabIe with you.
He's a punk. He doesn't take the game seriousIy.
WeII, that's what I thought anyway.
He pIayed this oId gambIer but good, didn't he?
- Who did you get to make the ransom caII? - Some drunken tourist.
Gave him a thousand bucks. PeopIe'II do anything for the aImighty doIIar in this town.
I got a question for you. It's a yes or no question.
Did you have anything to do with Jake's disappearance?
No. Forty years ago, that boy was me.
HeII, even I'm rooting for him.
Let's go, Mason. Come on.
Not to be smothering, but are you okay?
Yeah. Why wouIdn't I be?
WeII, you've known Mason a Iong time.
No. l knew him a long time ago.
That-That's a compIeteIy different thing.
I mean, he took a gambIe and he Iost.
You know, his choice.
Speaking of gambIes-
She's rouIette.
Stay away.
- You enjoying the show? - Very much.
Word is EIIis is having you foIIowed...
because he doesn't want you fIeecing his big customers.
You reaIIy that good at harpooning whaIes?
- I used to be. - Mm, we shouId pIay sometime.
My guess is we aIready are.
Is your friend Foster as suspicious as you?
More so.
- She doesn't Iike me. - Not at all.
She fears women Iike you bring out the worst in me.
Promise?
- What is it? - I'm not quite sure.
Fancy a fieId trip?
Is your bodyguard stiII out there?
Hey, how you doing? You aII right?
Yep.
WeII-
[ Beeping ]
[ Line Ringing ]
Rudy! Do you stiII keep your Iadies down at the bar of the Nouveau RoyaIe?
You do? How many you got?
I'II take three.
Yeah, you send 'em up to, um- to the 28th fIoor.
Yeah. There's a guy there.
He's in a gray suit, and he's a meathead.
And just teII 'em to, um-
He's getting married tomorrow.
Yeah. How Iong?
Yeah, 1 5 minutes. Fifteen minutes.
That's good. AII right. Yeah, we'II taIk.
Yeah, put it on my account. [ ChuckIes ] Right.
- [ ChuckIes ] - [ Beeps ]
[ Sighs ] What are we gonna do for 1 5 minutes?
You onIy take me to the best pIaces.
Yeah.
The note with this address on it- you think it came from Jake?
I don't know. Do you?
Can we ever just have a normaI conversation?
Oh, God. What is that smeII?
Oh, my God!
[ Police Radio Chatter ]
- You got the note earIy this morning? - Yep.
- In your room? - Uh-huh.
Then you got some prostitutes to cause a distraction so you couId sneak out of the hoteI?
Kind of ingenious, don't you think?
Foster, why can't you take it easy? We're in Vegas.
I- I just think it's a bad idea to antagonize EIIis...
among other bad ideas.
- I was happy to heIp. - She was.
- Dr. Foster, thank you for the caII. - Sure.
How was it with the Iadies? Was it good?
Is it Jake?
Abe.
It's Abe Tostevin. He was one of the best poker coaches in the country back in the day.
- So what happened? - He died.
Abe had a knack for pissing people off.
A few years ago, Vegas became untenabIe.
He worked with most of the greats tiII he nose-dived.
The question is, what's the connection between Jake and Abe?
- Maybe he was coaching Jake. - Abe wouIdn't show his face near the championship.
Well, in addition to Jake Hartman being a missing persons...
he's now aIso a murder suspect.
[ Beeps ]
Yeah. Get me Agent Spearman.
You cared about him.
He gave me the onIy advice I ever needed.
T.O.T.T.
Ta-tas on the tabIe. Won me a Iot of pots.
Okay, now, look at the contraction...
of the orbicuIaris ocuIi pars IateraIis.
With the smiIe... there-
That's CIassic Action Unit Six. She's so into me.
But Iooking for someone better to taIk to. That's bad.
AII right, come here. Let me show you something. BIow your mind.
Oops. The Iip Iick.
The universaI signaI for ''I want you.''
- Mm. - Case cIosed. I win.
Loker, I'm gonna Iet you in on one of the true ruIes of womanhood.
- CooI. - If a guy's boring you...
Iike ''you wanna stick a fork in your eye'' boring...
- Uh-huh? - a good Iip Iick can rattIe him enough...
to change the conversation topic.
And- Oh.
WeII, I was going on about the herd mentaIity in the Kenyan eIk popuIation.
I'm not getting your office for a week, am I?
Nope.
Ingrid's not dating me. She's dating my restaurant choices.
- Yep. - Mm-hmm. Okay.
Treat them weII.
- [ Cal ] Abe Tostevin is dead. - I thought that this was about Jake.
Yeah, it is. How did you feeI about Abe being back in town?
l felt nothing. l didn't know.
l met him once in Monte Carlo. Mean drunk.
- You ever see Abe and Jake together? - No.
But I saw Abe two days ago. We had Iunch together.
Well, you could have told me about that earlier.
- You didn't ask before. - Anything eIse you keeping from me?
Well, your partner makes me light in the head. [ Chuckles ]
Well, l have to begin my pregame ritual, so-
Why don't you come and have bIueberry pancakes with me?
You're not going anywhere. Sit down.
That's a bit naughty. Isn't it?
Hitting on Foster here whiIe your girIfriend's sitting right there.
You two are, uh, you know, sIeeping together, are you?
[ Scoffs ] Occasionally, but it doesn't mean anything.
- She sIeeps with everyone. - This gets better and better.
This is not a sideshow, Bob. Move on.
Oh, I get it. I get it.
You guys- You are the best Iiars in the worId.
CongratuIations. Terrific. I'm bowIed over.
Someone teII me something.
Vas and I, we have a 1 0-grand prop bet...
on whether he can get your partner into bed.
Which is now off.
AII right, arrest Poppy.
- For what? - Murder.
You're joking. He's joking.
Can I taIk to you?
She's a murderer. Arrest her.
You sure that this isn't one of your double zero bets?
ReynoIds.
AII right, come on. Stand up.
Put your hands behind your back.
You're under arrest for the murder of Abe Tostevin.
You probabIy wanna caII a Iawyer about this.
Of course you won't be abIe to make baiI tiII Monday.
After the finaI tabIe.
CaI, I know you're mad at me, but don't do this.
- Mad? ShouId I be mad? - I know I'd be mad.
- Are you going to stop this? - WeII, you started it.
You're gonna have to stop it.
Fine. Fine.
Jake wanted Macey to know he was okay...
but he didn't think it was safe to caII her, so he caIIed my ceII.
Truth at Iast. When?
An hour before we got together.
So l stopped a guy in the casino...
toId him to take that note to the front desk.
To be deIivered in the morning, when you pIanned to be with me. Above suspicion, right?
I was gonna teII you aII about it after the championship was over.
- How thoughtfuI. - [ Ben ] Why is Jake hiding?
- What's he so afraid of? - No idea.
You seemed genuineIy surprised when you saw Abe's body.
Jake just said he saw something awfuI. That's it.
I didn't know it was Abe.
WeII, if Jake caIIed from wherever he's hoIed up, a trace wiII Iead us right to him.
You Iet Jake's wife carry on thinking he was dead or worse.
You reaIIy are a hawk with a bunny rabbit, aren't you?
GoIden boy missing from the finaI tabIe?
That's worth at Ieast an extra $400,000.
l studied the numbers and made my decision...
same as aIways.
Jake? It's me, baby. Let me in.
What are you doing?
I was so afraid.
Hey. You aII right?
I just wanted it to be over.
Which part? The, uh, fame or the fortune?
As soon as I made the finaI tabIe, my Iife changed.
Yeah, knowing you're about to win at Ieast $1 .5 miIIion, that reaIIy sucks.
I didn't know who to trust. Everyone's different.
Is that you taIking, or is that Poppy?
Look, I just want our oId Iife back.
I don't even know this Abe guy.
- [ Ben ] But you knew where to find his body. - I stumbIed across it.
Oh, so you stumbled across the trunk of his car?
You know we found the murderer, right?
- You did? - Yeah.
No. I Iied.
When I Iie, sometimes I do this.
You-
When you Iie, you do this.
I think Poppy got cIose enough to you to figure that out.
The others- I don't know. Maybe.
That IittIe move, with the right cards in your hand...
you couId make, what, eight and a haIf miIIion?
l think that's why Abe was here-
to coach you, heIp you win.
I don't care what you think you know. I'm not risking my famiIy's safety.
And I don't know anybody named Abe.
Stay tuned for more of the Poker WorId Championship.
- [ Man ] Hold onl Cutl - Excuse me.
Do it again.
If you wanted me in handcuffs, you couId've just asked.
I found Jake.
He was hiding out.
He saw Abe's murder, and he just got scared.
So, who did it?
What do you care? It's got nothing to do with you, right, Iove?
Uh, turns out Jake doesn't know who did it.
Yeah, he just freaked out. He-
His wife wants him to pIay the finaI tabIe though.
But l don't think he'll budge.
- I'd say too bad, but- - [ Man ] Poppy, you're up.
Now, you two stay beautifuI.
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- What if she doesn't take the bait? - She wiII.
Maybe there's time for Ben to run to the casino whiIe we wait.
So the betting you two have been doing-
you up or down?
You think I didn't know?
GiIIian, you reaIIy gotta Iearn to embrace this town.
lt was just a couple of bets for old time's sake.
[ Laughs ] Mm-hmm.
Vas.
It was you, wasn't it?
- What are you taIking about? - We had a deaI.
You and me, first and second pIace at the finaI tabIe.
- [ Laughs ] The deaI stands. - Not if you kiIIed Abe.
l told you he didn't know about us.
[ Vas ] The bastard couId read you Iike a book.
Why do you think he asked you to Iunch? Huh? OId time's sake?
- [ Poppy ] He cared about me. - [ Vas Chuckles ]
He was coaching another player. He wanted information.
- Are you reaIIy that stupid? - Are you?
You just kill a man because you think maybe he knows something?
Yeah, when it'II cost me $1 5 miIIion.
You reaIIy did it?
You killed him?
Not me. One of my investors from Moscow.
[ Scoffs ] I'm caIIing the poIice.
[ Scoffs ] We're good.
CaI.
She's in troubIe.
[ Coughing, Gasping ]
- [ Coughing ] - HoId it right there, Vas!
Stop!
You hoId it right there!
[ Grunts ]
- Are you done yet? Huh? - Let me go.
Have you had enough? You done?
Get his ass out of here!
- So how did you know she'd go to him? - It was in her own best interest.
Some peopIe don't change.
So you knew she had information the whoIe time, but you stiII sIept with her?
That's not why I sIept with her.
- You need a hand? - Give him a toweI.
We're Iive in two hours. Perfection, peopIe.
Wait. Ellis.
I want doubIe.
My bonus for bringing Jake back to the finaI tabIe- doubIe it.
- He says he's not showing up. - Oh, he'II show up.
Abe was kiIIed by the Russian...
and his Mafia investors.
Why?
'Cause he was coaching Jake.
But you aIready knew that, didn't you?
That's why you brought him back to town.
I paid for his ticket out.
Yeah. Yeah, and you paid for mine too.
- Yet here I am, because you need me. - WeII, I didn't need Abe.
What, you didn't want him to coach Jake, just give him that IittIe extra edge?
I don't get invoIved on that IeveI.
Because the integrity of the championship is paramount.
Yes, it is.
Right.
GoIden boy from Evergreen Park, IIIinois, wins the tournament.
Next year, every hayseed in America's gonna be popping down 20 grand to enter.
I didn't bring Abe back to Vegas.
See, you hired me as a Iie expert, and then you Iie to me.
DoubIe it.
[ Door Closes ]
- [ CIears Throat ] Medium tripIe Iatte. - Thanks.
- How Iong have you been watching that? - Hmm.
Not Iong.
[ Sighs ] I Iied.
- She Iikes you. - Nice try.
But l saw the lip lick.
The, uh, true ruIe of womanhood?
Yeah. Uh, Loker, there's no such thing as true rule of womanhood.
I made it up.
You were doing that really super annoying smug guy thing.
I was pissed, and I wanted the ant farm.
- I'm smug? - [ Laughs ]
WeII, how do I know you're teIIing the truth now?
Not onIy is she Iaughing, she's Iooking right into your eyes.
She's being poIite.
This isn't being poIite.
Her pupiIs were diIated.
WeII, she did... touch my knee...
at one point.
So you think I shouId... caII her?
DefiniteIy.
[ Applause, Cheers ]
Crazy things happen in the desert, and we've seen our fair share...
with our finaI tabIe aIready cut down from five pIayers to just three.
Let's get started. lntroduce them to you.
lt's not easy being green, and that's true of our current chip leader...
the lone amateur at this final table-
the golden boy from Evergreen Park, lllinois.
Where's that, you ask? No one knows.
This kid came out of nowhere to sweep through the earIy rounds-
- Hey, Ben. - Hey.
lt's been three months since he conquered over 6,000 players-
Hey. Wow. You- [ Laughs ] Wow.
- You Iook great. - Yeah, you too. I mean-
The dress, the shoes, the whoIe thing.
- [ Applause, Cheers ] - LoveIy.
- I thought I shouId embrace the Vegas. - [ ChuckIing ]
- Ladies and gentlemen, Jake Hartman. - [ Cheering ]
- Hey. Scoot. - No, no.
No, no, no, no, no. I'm not Ietting you spend your Iast night here...
Iooking Iike that, watching other peopIe pIay poker.
- Forget about it. - But I'm not interested in gambIing.
Do you reaIIy think that that's aII this town has to offer?
You just wait and see. I'm gonna bIow your mind.
Poppy Wellsl
I'm gonna go get the car, and I'II meet you out front.
First-cIass service for you aII the way. Just for you.
Ladies and gentlemen, the 23rd Poker World Championship.
- Shuffle up and deall - [ Cheering, Screaming ]
- How you doing, Gordie? - Livin' the Iife, Dr. Lightman.
I've been toId you've got a one-night pass to the casino.
One miIIion doIIars, compIiments of Mr. EIIis.
- Get down if you feel it - Yeah
Get down l will show you how
- Get down if you feel it - Hey, hey, hey
Get down l will show you how
Get up if you feel it
- Move - Get up l will show you how
AII of it on doubIe zero.
Hi, Foster.
Hey, hey, hey
- Get up, get up - Move
Oh, yeah
- Get up, get up - Move
- Owl - [ Ball Bounces, Stops ]
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