Ante Up! Pokercast

After our Oklahoma trip, Scott headed to California for more Ante Up business and he reports back with his findings.

We come to you from Highway 75 in Oklahoma/Texas after our successful live stream at the Choctaw Resort and Casino for the Chad Brown Challenge Main Event. It's a short show, but we'll be back in full force next week.

Our cover story for April was on the puzzle that is the guarantee tournament. We invited Commerce Casino's tournament director Sam Quinto to be our guest this week to tell us about the decisions that go into this tricky marketing tool.

The writer and director of All In The Poker Movie calls in and answers our questions about his fine poker documentary.

After nearly seven years of doing our show, we finally land the 2003 WSOP champ on our show. We discuss all kinds of poker things, including the new movie All In.

Scott returns from a trip to the AC, Delaware and Philly rooms after meeting up with some of our favorite listeners.

What makes a poker game "legit" in your mind, and should we be so quick to label other games as "carnival" or unworthy.

We return from our seventh poker cruise with some fun stories, in this abbreviated show.

Who are the five people, living or dead, real or fictional, you'd love to play poker with in a 6-max game? We have our lists ready!

That's right, our show is dedicated to the game we all probably learned poker from and never play now. But it's a fun variation in a home game so we have some thoughts.

We invite Ante Up friend Sam Minutello, director of poker at One-Eyed Jacks in Sarasota, Fla., to chat about some recent chip-dumping and collusion events that have happened in the poker world recently. Plus we discuss the Epic Poker League news.

Scott returns from a South Florida trip where he played in a WSOPC H.O.R.S.E. event and visited at least three new rooms.

We chat with Mark Hoke of Short Stacked Radio about his path to this point and future plans for the poker production.

The great Mike Fasso, a.k.a. The Bard, returns to the show to tell us about his trip to Macau.

Video games giant Zynga may be softening its stance on turning its play-money poker platform into real money. We discuss the ramifications.

Someone once asked us who the top five poker players were today, and there are a LOT of angles to take on this. We come up with five each ... well, maybe more than five.

Ante Up Magazine's 2011 Player of the Year Darryll Fish joins us to discuss his remarkable year and poker career.

It's been a long time coming, but we finally get around to introducing you to Chinese Poker, and we have the creators of a cool Chinese Poker app on the show to help us.

The Ante Up boys discuss the DOJ opinion regarding the Wire Act and ask what it means to online poker.

Scott returns from the New Orleans cruise and Lee Childs calls in to say what fun they had while Chris stayed behind and did actual work for Ante Up.