This has been all over the Internet for years so you may have seen it. If you did, you might want to see it again…
It's a half-hour of the late/great card wizard Ricky Jay discussing poker with five friends — Willie Garson, J.J. Johnston, John C. Reilly, Jeff Jones and Eddie Gorodetsky — and cheating the hell out of them. I knew Ricky casually. Eddie G. introduced us and then I kept running into him in different places — and he was a fascinating guy interested in just about everything. Someone could have done a weekly two-hour podcast with the guy for years and never run out of things to talk about…and not just magic or card hustles.
I played a little poker in my younger days and it never grabbed me the way it grabs some people I know. I was uncomfy playing it for money with friends and even more uncomfy with strangers so that kind of brought an end to my poker-playing days. Even before that, I learned the main lesson of this video which is to NEVER PLAY POKER WITH RICKY JAY OR ANYONE LIKE HIM. Actually, there's been no one quite like Ricky Jay but you know what I mean…