Epsiode #119: Tom Schneider
MAIN TOPIC
World Series of Poker Player of the Year Tom Schneider gives us a ring to talk about his huge summer and lots of other things. Click here to listen to the show. Highlights:
Split games: Find out why he hates Stud/8.
POY: Learn what he got for winning it and how his life has changed since.
Podcast: He hosts Beyond the Table, a humorous look at the poker world.
Book: Check out his book, Oops! I Won Too Much Money, which melds advice from his business career with tales from the tables.
7-2 off: Learn why his book cover features the worst hand in poker.
OTHER TOPICS
Scott's back from Texas: Turns out, there's no basement at the Alamo.
No way, Jose: Jose Canseco talks his way into the ladies event of the California State Poker Championship. Hmmmm...
Absolute cracked: Ever dream of winning every single hand you show down? Some dude on Absolute Poker did. Lucky? Nah.
Mississippi straddle: A letter writer correctly chides us for not explaining the Mississippi straddle on last week's Mailbag show. Mucho apologies but, hey, imagine a world where no one straddles. It would be wonderful.
It's a small world: Another letter writer lets us know he struck up a conversation with a fellow player at the MGM Grand poker room in Vegas and turns out, she listens to Ante Up! too. Cool.
Survivor: Jean-Robert Bellande makes a BIG debut on the reality show. Scott's wife wasn't impressed, and it looks like next week he'll be asked to "pull his weight." A mighty challenge, indeed.
Ante Up Hotline: Bitguru calls to suggest fade-in music to go with our fade-out music.
Tampa Bay Poker Replay: Godard calls to suggest Chris be aggressive early in the the big Derby Lane tournament coming up because players who are playing above their normal bankrolls are usually tight. Interesting tip. Also, check out what Sam is doing down at One-Eyed Jack's in Sarasota: Monday Night Football squares and "Dueling Rack Attack" where players face off heads up to see who can rack the most chips in 60 seconds. That's cool stuff, which is what we were hoping would come from the new laws.
HAND OF THE WEEK
Tom sticks around to help Chris with a Stud/8 hand. Chris brings it in with (A♣ 4♥) 2♣, hoping to raise if it's completed. Not only is it completed, but it's raised and reraised before it gets back to Chris. He caps it, though Tom would have just called since we're battling for only half the pot right now.
Fourth street brings Chris the 5♣, and the pot got capped again with boards of A♦ 4♦, 2♠ 6♥ and 5♠ A♥.
Fifth street gives Chris the K♦, and the boards show: A♦ 4♦ 9♣, 2♠ 6♥ 7♠ and 5♠ A♥ 8♦. It's bet and raised before it gets to Chris, who figures it's going to get capped again. He sticks around, and sure enough it's capped and he calls. Tom says there's too much money in the pot now to bail with our draws.
Sixth street gives Chris the 8♣, giving him a smooth 8 low and an A-high flush draw. The betting slows, though, as everyone else apparently bricks. Everyone calls one bet.
Chris improves to a 6-low on the river, but misses his flush. It's bet and raised, and Chris calls. It's then raised and capped behind him, and Chris calls and loses to a wheel.
Tom said Chris played it well, and this is an example of why he doesn't like Stud/8. Ha!
- SCOTT
Christopher Cosenza is co-host of the longest running poker podcast on the planet, Ante Up! He started playing poker seriously in 2003 and his favorite players are Phil Ivey and Kenna James, though he tends to act like Phil Hellmuth if you make a bad play against him.
Scott Long, Ante Up!'s other co-host, is the author of the monthly Bet on It column in tbt*. He began gambling way too young (don't tell the fuzz!) and in the seventh grade, named his state "Gambleland" for a school project (State Animal? Loan shark, of course).
When Chris said Scott was back from Dallas and asked about the Alamo....I've been to Texas a few times--not my favorite state--but I believe the Alamo isn't in Dallas but San Antonio. As is the Riverwalk. But hey, who's keeping track.
A great podcast though!
Posted by: jherky | September 22, 2007 at 04:11 PM
We know it's in San Antonio! I said you're back from Dallas and then he said Texas, it's much bigger. Then I said, Oh, did you find the basement of the Alamo. The Alamo is in San Antonio, which is in TEXAS. And so is the RiverWalk. I never said the Alamo was in Dallas. Plus, I remember when they made a big deal of the Women's Final Four being there and how they spruced up the RiverWalk just for that occasion. I think your name should be kneejerky. 8-)
Posted by: Chris Cosenza | September 22, 2007 at 04:19 PM
I was just ribbing you. I was also going to say in your suckout post that you needed a shave and a haircut. ;-)
Posted by: kneejerky | September 23, 2007 at 10:14 PM
2-bits. 8-)
Posted by: Chris Cosenza | September 23, 2007 at 10:57 PM