Ante Up! Pokercast

With Scott galavanting all over Europe this month, Mike Fasso returns almost two years to the day since his last appearance. He'll be back next week, too.

This week we stray from our regular programing to bring you an interview with Thunder Valley Casino Resort's director of poker operations Ben Erwin as he discusses the upcoming Ante Up World Championship, which his property will host in August.

Scott and Chris each are going to Europe this summer and need your help. Listen in to see how and why!

Scott is back from our L.A. poker cruise, but he's still on the road at the Ante Up Poker Tour stop at The Casino 101.

Ante Up strategy columnist David Apostolico wrote an intriguing piece in this month's Ante Up about making hero calls and when not to make them.

Why do players choose to play in a tournament? Is it the guarantee? Money added? Plus, we complete an O'Mally's Move!

Nolan Dalla writes an interesting blog post wondering if poker is beatable anymore, plus we have a new O'Mally's Move.

Scott says poker analogies work very well in all walks of life, and we get to complete an O'Mally's Move.

We discuss the case of the WSOPC champ who pocketed a chip during heads-up play and was disqualified after winning the whole thing.

Full Tilt (via PokerStars) finally pays back the players from the Black Friday debacle, almost three years ago. Plus we complete an O'Mally's Move and other great stuff.

Scott reports back from the wildly successful AUPT Cordova Casino Ante Up Championship!

We recap the WSOP schedule for this summer, and there are some minor changes.

Chris watches a TV show where the star loses his business to a mafia guy in a poker game, plus we hear of a new reason to use the straddle.

We have an update to the Borgata counterfeit chip situation, plus Bitcoins are in the news again, and we have a new O'Mally's Move.

We discuss the Full Tilt Poker payment resolution and the counterfeit chips at the Borgata event.

PartyPoker.Com has a deal with the New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia 76ers for $10 million, plus a poker celeb is facing larceny charges.

Ante Up Poker Magazine is proud to announce we have merged with Southwest Poker News. We have SWPN founder and new Ante Up Director of Sales Chris Cronin on the show!

Be aware of thieves taking your laptop and inserting software to tell them what your hole cards online. Also, a cabbie returns $300K to a poker player who left it in the backseat of his cab.

A recent article in Reason magazine says the majority of Republicans will support regulated online poker. Really? Plus we complete the last O'Mally's Move of the year.

We learn that Rounders II is definitely coming and we get some details. Plus, we have a great HOTW and O'Mally's Move.