About Us
Christopher Cosenza handles the editorial operations for Ante Up Publishing LLC, including writing, editing and design. He has more than 20 years of professional media experience, including 13 years as an award-winning designer at the St. Petersburg Times. Before that he served as sports editor for the Middletown (Conn.) Press and sports writer for the New Haven (Conn.) Register.
Contact him: (727) 742-3428 or chris@anteupmagazine.com
Scott Long handles the business operations for Ante Up Publishing LLC, including advertising, marketing and distribution. He has more than 20 years of professional media experience, including editing and management roles at the St. Petersburg Times and Pensacola News Journal. He previously was the author of the "Bet On It" gambling column for tbt*, a daily product of the Times.
Contact him: (727) 331-4335 or scott@anteupmagazine.com.
Our Products
Ante Up Magazine
Ante Up is "Your Poker Magazine" because it highlights the accomplishments of the players who take down a local or regional tournament, win a bad-beat jackpot or qualify for a World Series event through their local poker league. Each issue includes state-by-state news, features and columns. The 30,000 monthly copies are available for free in more than 120 casinos, poker rooms and poker leagues throughout Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, West Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, and by subscription elsewhere.
Ante Up PokerCast - Presented by PokerStars
Our award-winning weekly Internet audio show mixed humor, commentary and strategy every Friday. The show, which has garnered accolades from Bluff Magazine, the Chicago Poker Club and PodcastAwards.Com, features popular segments like Columbo's One-Minute Mystery, the Ante Up News Desk and listener-submitted Mailbag, Hotline and Hand of the Week.
Ante Up TV
Ante Up has partnered with Fallah Productions Inc., producer of the successful Windy City Poker Championship television show, to produce an Ante Up TV show. We have broadcast agreements in place with SUN Sports and Bright House Networks in Florida, Comcast SportsNet Chicago in Illinois and Cox Cable in Louisiana, for a total reach of 18.5 million households.
Ante Up Events
Throughout the year, Ante Up works with venues and sponsors to develop other live events, from training camps, to special tournaments to parties.
Ante Up E-Newsletters
Our monthly fan e-newsletter alerts more than 2,000 players to everything going on in the world of Ante Up, from our magazine to our pokercast to our live events, as well as great offers and promotions from our partners and advertisers. Our monthly e-newsletter to more than 200 poker room managers and executives throughout The South gives them a preview of what's coming up in the next issue of Ante Up, as well as information on Ante Up special events and offers from our partners and advertisers. Subscribe
AnteUpMagazine.Com - Powered by PokerNews
The 24/7 hub of Ante Up's universe, our Web site features breaking news, a fan forum, archives of our magazine and pokercast and exclusive content from PokerNews.
AUPT and Ante Up Intercontinental Poker Series
Our year-long live tournament series runs from June 1-May 31 and features more than a dozen poker tournaments each month in Florida poker rooms (expanding to Southern poker rooms on June 1). Players who finish in the top 10 of any event earn points in our Player of the Year race, with the top finishers at the end of the year winning prizes from our sponsors. Ante Up Intercontinental Poker Series (AIPS): Our year-long online tournament series runs from February to January and features at least one online tournament a month, joining together Ante Up fans from around the world. Players earn points based on their finish toward our Player of the Year title, and winners of individual events win a trophy and prizes from our sponsors.
Ante Up Poker Cruises
Twice a year we take the Ante Up experience on the high seas, transforming a major cruise ship's conference room into a professionally staffed and equipped 10-table poker room. With cash games, tournaments and SNGs running around the clock, it's a great way for our fans to combine poker and a vacation and get an intimate introduction to our sponsors.
