Chapter 4 Ep. 20 WSOB: Babies, Billions, and Back to the Future
5/30/20261 hr 14 min
The WSOP is underway, but based on the headlines, maybe it should be called the World Series of Babies. This week on the Ante Up Poker Podcast, Joe and Elle dive into the latest WSOP stories, including Daniel Negreanu and Adam Hendrix both preparing for fatherhood, the first bracelet winner of the summer, and what the massive Caesars/Fertitta deal could mean for poker players going forward.
In Call the Floor, Elliott Schecter weighs in on a controversial tournament ruling. Can a dealer declare your hand dead if you’re not paying attention? And if your cards haven’t actually reached the muck yet, do you still have a claim to them? It’s a situation that sparked plenty of debate at the table.
For this week’s Hand of the Week, we’re doing something a little different. Andrew sends in a wild No-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo hand from a regular home game, but the real twist is that this very same hand was originally broken down by Scott and Chris back in 2012. We found the original episode and weaved clips into the discussion. It’s a fun look back at the show’s history while tackling a fascinating hand.
And in Joe’s One Outer, I talk about adaptability. Why some players never change gears at the table and how many of us make the same mistake in life. The challenges change, the situations change, and sometimes success comes from from finding the right gear.
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Joe Scales· Host0:16
Hello A-Team, and welcome back to another episode of the Ante Up Poker Podcast, where every hand is an opportunity, every player is a friend, and every episode is a winning experience. I'm your host, Joe Scales, and I wanna talk for just a minute about this week's Hand of the Week. I have been looking forward to this for a few weeks now, but we went ahead and recorded the episode or the segment yesterday because I knew it was going to require a little extra work on the back end. The hand was originally submitted back in 2012, and I managed to track down the episode where Scott and Chris broke it down all those years ago. I thought it'd be fun to use those clips, so I sent that off along with the Hand of the Week to have it prepared for the show, and then I was able to weave those tidbits into our current breakdown. Uh, I knew it was going to take some extra editing. I guess I didn't know how much extra, [laughs] extra editing it was going to take. Granted, most of that was on the video side that took so long, but it, but it turned into a, a bigger project than I really expected. But honestly, I loved every minute of it. But more than anything,