Ante Up! wins Chicago Poker Club's "Best Podcast" award for second year
A good month for Ante Up! just got a lot better - for the second year in a row, Ante Up! has been named "Best Podcast" by the Chicago Poker Club.
Click on the link above to read the entire text, but here's a highlight:
"... Ante Up!’s accessible style and its consistency are the two keys to its success. Other great podcasts have come and gone, waxed and waned, or disbanded and rejoined, but Ante Up! marches on as poker’s podcast beacon."
ChicagoJason even flew down to Tampa last night, as a testament to how strongly the Chicago Poker Club feels about Ante Up! (well, he got to visit his Dad, who lives here, and his wife, who is on business in Orlando, and he got a cheap fare on Southwest, but think how impressed you would have been had I not told you all of that).
And again, on behalf of Chris, we humbly thank our listeners for all of our success. Last night, Jason laughed about how he just walked up to my table, said "Hey!" and I turned around and said "Hey!" like we were old friends, even though we've never met. He said he felt that way because he's grown to know us over 135 weeks of shows. To me, that's the real award in all of this - that Ante Up! has that effect on its listeners. We feel like we're old friends with many of you, too, regardless of whether we've ever met.
But to that end, let's not forget that I'll be in Chicago - home of the Chicago Poker Club - this weekend, and would like to have a beer with as many of our "old friends" as possible. Come out if you can (details here), and if not, we thank you for listening week in and week out - and we hope to meet you sometime and someplace else.
- 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).
Congrats boys... may the good times keep on rolling and may this week be the best show yet!
(checks to see that its Pot Odds 2k8...)
(rubs hands together in anticipation...)
Posted by: Rob from NJ | January 22, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Scott,
Thank you for clarifying that Chicago is the home of the Chicago Poker Club...........
See you this weekend and Congratulations on the award!
Brian
Posted by: Chi-Guy | January 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Congrats guys!
Whatcha gonna do with all the success?
Posted by: OhCaptain | January 22, 2008 at 04:21 PM
I'd hereby like to announce, from my powerful comment medium, that California's own South Bay Poker Club has also voted you as the Best Poker Podcast of the 2008.
Posted by: NickG | January 22, 2008 at 05:03 PM
In celebration of your two most recent (the latest, of course, being the most special) I was going to buy an Ante Up! t-shirt. I'm all for the made in the USA schwag, but man with those prices, I'll just wait for the made in Taiwan versions instead.
Posted by: NickG | January 22, 2008 at 05:07 PM