Tony G. Poker Blog

Take a walk with me through a tour of what’s behind the poker scene at the WSOP.

*Passerby, “He’s going to take all your chips!”*
There’s a man, he knows what I’m going to do.  So day two, another day two for me.  I don’t miss a day two, this time the 5K Omaha hi/lo.  So let’s […]

So we are in about Day 19 now on the World Series of poker, we’re all getting a bit tired, but I finally made my cash.  We’re going to walk in and see how the payouts work, let’s see if I can get in there. 

Here we go.  I’ve got my passport.  Luckily I am […]

OK, so my blog updates now are starting to be live when I play.  They are going to be on TV so here I am on TV. 

I’ll be updating you guys every day from the WSOP – just inside the room there is where all of the play’s going down.  I’m actually in the tournament […]

I made the money in the heads up and had a fun day so far.  I had to beat Sam Farha and David Williams on the way and now I am in round four so I feel very good.  My plan is to be alive in three events tomorrow.   That will be first time ever in […]

That is how I feel. The fun has been squeezed out and it’s a grind here.
I don’t think the WSOP is for me but I will plug away and this will likely be my final year of the WSOP, Why play something that you don’t enjoy? The organizers do not care about the players. […]

Holdem:  85 players were left and I was in shape to make the money with 60k coming in to day two, but I was in a very aggressive mood and I was going to go for it.  I wanted to get a big stack and go for the win.
I picked up 10-10 vs. 9-9 and […]

After a day off I was ready for some action and after arriving about 30 minutes late to the event, my start was on an outside table.  My table was to be broken in about 30 min but I got a good start and built up to 15k by the time I was moved.  I […]

After about an hour of play we had Doyle seat 1, Howard Lederer on my right, Eli Elezra seat 10, and all the other players were also good, so the table was a monument to a very high standard of limit holdem
I came in with 36k and was building steadily as my hands held up […]

With 10k in starting chips and a slow structure early, I got to this event one hour and 30 minutes late.  That left me down about 500 chips.  It seemed to be a pretty good table with good value on the right hand side and I was in good form playing a real tight game.  […]

I jumped into day 2 of the Stud event and the table was as great as it will ever get.  I will never get a better shot at stud then this game provided; it had some loose players and everyone appeared to be playing for fun and so L-O-O-O-O-S-E.
But in stud you still need to […]