Tony G.

I am back home in Melbourne and its great to be back, this is the best country in the world by far. Everything is easy here and lots of sport events, went to the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground seats 95,000)today to watch a cricket game South Africa vs Australia its a 5 day test match. […]

USA versus rest of the world. Team ‘Rest of the World’ have won. I have captained the team to victory. Its an amazing feeling to beat a US team that included Phil Ivey, and Jesus Ferguson, just to name a couple players. The World Team had Daniel Negreanu, playing for […]

So. Just an update on the World Team vs USA. Its been a fantastic day, and with 16 players left, the world team leads the US team 21 – 13. Its gonna be very interesting to see how it goes. We have 9 of the 16 remaining players left for the world […]

A personal update for Tony G….The latest news is that I have been named the World Team Captain to captain the Rest of the World versus America. The tournament is going to happen on the 15th, in Las Vegas, and will be broadcast on Fox Sports. It’s a pretty secret tournament. Its very […]

I’m out….Flopped the nuts. K 10 9 on the flop, and I had Q J. I Went all in, against a set of Kings, and the river paired up. I Would’ve had a massive stack. Nothing you can do….that’s my game.
Next time, I’ll get em.

OK….here we are. Bellagio $15,000 WPT main event. 555 players turned up to pay out $15,000 each, with about $2.5 million to first, which will make it the third biggest payout of 2005, and its going to be very interesting. End of Level 1, and I am down to about 28,000…we started […]

I’m out. It’s OK. I had the big blind again. The chip leader raised 2,300 – I had 9,000 left. I picked up QJ suited. Great opportunity to make a move – there’s 4,000 in the middle. If I can pick it up without a flop, its great. Also, I […]

The world champ has arrived at my table. What a feeling to be in this business, playing, and enjoying. Joesph Hachem has just arrived at my table, the current world champ. We’re from the same town, Melbourne, Australia. What a nice guy he is. He came to the table […]

Well, that was a very tough 2 hours, and were at the end of level 4. Unfortunately, I’m down to about 7,500…we started with 10,000 today. I was up to 23,000 early in that level, but I misplayed two 10s. I had two 10’s in the middle, and called an under the […]

This is the 5k update, and I’m up on the first break. With about 210 players remaining. They have a really big field for this, with about 250 people starting. This turns out to be a pretty big event, with first place paying $440,000, and second paying $250,000. I had a really good start, and […]