Ante Up! Pokercast

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.

Famed gambling publisher and author Avery Cardoza joins us this week to discuss his new novel, Lost in Las Vegas.

Our Reno Ante Up Ambassador Cordell Howard takes the trip of a lifetime, covering 12,000 miles and 125 poker rooms in three weeks. We chat with him about the experience.

Licensed poker mental coach Jared Tendler calls in to chat about his new book, among other things.

Formerly known as the Kongkeys, we decided we needed a show for Thanksgiving week, so we have rebranded the awards for boneheadedness and called them our 2011 Turkeys.

The last of our four-part Road Trip series features the poker rooms of the Phoenix area and St. Louis.

Part III of our Road Trip series takes us to the poker rooms and casinos of Northern California.

Chris catches up with Amanda Leatherman, who recently signed a deal with Bodog.