Mike McDermott:  I never told anybody this , about eight nine months ago , I 'm at the Taj it 's late and I see Johnny Chan walk in and he goes and sits in the three hundred six hundred section and the whole place stops and everybody puts an eye on him , after a while there was n't a crap going on because all the high rollers are over there watching and some of them playing but they 're giving their money to him and say " oh " , I played with the world champion " , you know what I did ?
Joey Knish: What ?
Mike McDermott: I sat down
Joey Knish: You need fifty to sixty grand to play right in that game
Mike McDermott: I had _ six _ but I had to know
Joey Knish: what happened ?
Mike McDermott: Played tight for an hour , folded mostly then I made a score
Joey Knish: With what ? aces or kings ?
Mike McDermott: Rags , I had nothing , but he raised and I decided I do n't care about the money , I 'm just going to out play the guy , I 'm going to out play this guy , this hand , I 'll re - raise
Joey Knish: Re - raise ? You play right back at him ?
Mike McDermott: Yeah , he comes back over the top at me trying bully me like I 'm some tourist , I hesitate for like two seconds then I 'll re - raise and he makes a move to his checks and he looks at me , check his cards and looks at me again , and he mucked it , I took it down
Mike McDermott: did you have it ?
Mike McDermott: I 'm sorry John , I do n't remember
Mike McDermott: I got up and walked to the cashier , I sat with the best in the world , and I won
Joey Knish: You made a fucking move on Chan you son of a bitch , so that 's why you made that run at KGB 's place
Mike McDermott: That 's right I 'll do it again if I can