Born Antanas Guoga, Tony G. Is a businessman and politician better known for his career as a professional poker player. More to the point, Tony G. Is known as the ultimate trash-talker. For a man named after the patron saint of the poor, Mr. Guoga has a reputation as something of a loudmouth. Known in the poker world as Tony G, Antanas Guoga is a man of many hats. Born in Kaunas, Lithuania on December 17, 1973, this Australian-Lithuanian poker star is also a businessman, politician, and philanthropist.

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Tony has always been a tough cookie

Three years later, Tony started playing poker more intensely and at a more professional level. Yet all beginnings are hard and not even Tony G became a poker star over night. On the contrary, he first tried, without success, to make a name for himself in the Australian poker scene. Not only was Tony one of the youngest at the table most of the time, he looked even younger than he actually was. The older players made fun of his appearance and lack of experience and he was not taken very seriously at the poker table. So Tony decided to earn his money as a Black Jack dealer in Hong Kong.

When he finally had saved up $ 200,000 he moved to Las Vegas, the city of dreams of every dedicated player. With the aid of a fake ID, he got into some of the city’s most famous casinos. Once again, luck dealt Tony a foul hand: He gambled away all of his savings and had to put up with the constant mockery and ridicule of the other players. Being blessed with the gift of the gab, though, Tony soon became known for his cheeky and defiant manner.

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After numerous downfalls in Las Vegas, Tony G returned to Australia to nurse his wounds and earn some more money. Although he often felt frustrated, giving up was never an option for him. He then tried his luck in Europe, where he finally started seeing some results. Tony became a regular at the Victoria Casino in London, where he trained hard and played many a cash-game. It was in Vienna, though, his next stop after London, that he recognized his true calling was to be a professional poker player.

In Vienna he registered for poker games as Tony G, a name that soon was on everybody’s lips. By now, most of the games he played he left as a winner. As a matter of fact, he started having difficulties finding people willing to play against him because he had become such a feared opponent: Everyone was scared of Tony G taking away all their money. In an interview, Tony G described his stay in Vienna as the “first step” of his career, not lastly because there, at last, he was allowed to legally play poker for the first time. Tony trained hard, improved his game and finally felt ready to enter bigger tournaments.

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On the road to success

In 2002, he participated in the European World Series of Poker (EWSOP) in Vienna. He made it to the finals where he faced Martin Aigner from Austria. It was only after a bout of bad luck that Tony G lost with Q-Q to a Q-5, a remarkable second place that impressed the poker scene. At the World Heads-Up Omaha Championship he was able to deliver an amazing win and beat poker stars such as Dave “Devilish” Ulliott. Heads-up does seem to be Tony’s specialty. In the World Heads-Up Championships he won thirteen matches in a row, an achievement no one had thought possible.

Not only did Tony G gain a reputation as an excellent poker player, but also for being an arrogant and cheeky loudmouth. At the 2003 World Poker Tour (WPT) in Paris he came in fifth place, but it was not his achievement as a poker player that stayed in the public memory after this tournament: His audacious manner throughout the poker game was too much for his colleague Howard Lederer who refused to shake hands with Tony at the end of the tournament. Even though this might not have been an achievement to be proud of, the incident only made Tony G more popular and his provocative demeanour earned him nicknames such as “The Mouth from Down Under”, “The Australian Windbag”, or “Loudmouth”.

In 2003, Tony G sat at not less than 10 final tables. He won two “White Nights Poker Festival” tournaments where he beat the Russian poker pros Andrei Martsev and O Rodin at pot-limit Omaha and no-limit Texas Hold’em. Not only that, he also finished second at the Austrian Masters at no-limit Texas Hold’em and third place at the 2003 Five Diamond WPT Season 2 at pot-limit Omaha. At the WPT of the Aviation Club de Paris he once more made it to the finals.

Soon, Tony G earned enough money winning tournaments to make a nice living. In 2004 Tony G earned an especially nice sum of money: At the WPT Season 3 “Rendezvous à Paris“, he won his biggest pot yet, almost half a million dollars, for his second place at no-limit Texas Hold’em. In 2005 he won the No-Limit Hold’em European Poker Championships where he also won a decent amount of prize money.

In 2006 he won the Lithuanian Open Summer Festival and the Betfair Asian Poker Tour at no-limit Texas Hold’em. In that same year he eliminated Phil Hellmuth, Gus Hansen, Bobby Bellande, Men Nguyen and Mike Matusow in the WPT Bad Boys of Poker II and was crowned the new “Bad Boy of Poker”, a title that fits him perfectly.

In 2007 he played his way up to third place at the NPL Global Poker Circuit- UK Open, as he did at the WSOP Europe that year.
In between tournaments, Tony spends a lot of his time at cash-games, especially in Moscow, where the stakes can be exceedingly high.

Aggressive playing style and a big mouth

Three card poker online game real money. His assertive playing manner makes Tony G one of the most aggressive poker players on the scene. Not only is he willing to take great risks, he also tends to be extremely short-tempered and provocative towards his fellow players. At the poker table he often lets his heated and unabashed emotions get the better of him and even cracks jokes at his competitors’ expense. Although this has made him very unpopular among his opponents, it seems to have had quite a good effect on his wins quota: Due to his incessant inappropriate comments, quite a few players not only lost their concentration but also their money – to Tony G.

His big mouth also is an advantage when it comes to public relations. At tournaments with media presence, the cameras point his way most of the time in the hope of capturing one of his infamous tantrums or one of his funny (and mostly derogatory) comments on camera. As a result, Tony G is a celebrated star on video websites like YouTube, where clips of him head the top rated lists and his fans hang on his every word.

A lot of the time it seems that just winning is not enough for Tony G, what makes a victory complete is finishing off his opponent verbally.
One classic example, as documented by a YouTube video:

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“Look at how I played! It’s not even possible to play worse than you! Your career is over, you’re out man! It’s over, over, over…” sings Tony G as he performs a dance of victory, emphasizing his insults with vivid gestures.

He especially enjoys poking fun at Russian players: his phrase “send them back to Russia” has become legendary. The reason for this – at least partly – are his Lithuanian roots. In an interview Tony explains that there have always been some tensions between Lithuanians and their Russian neighbours.

There is no doubt that many of Tony G’s opponents strongly dislike him. Those who have had the chance to get to know him a little better, however, know that in private Tony G is a polite and companionable person. His poker colleague Phil Hellmuth describes Tony as a li