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Antanas Guoga or “Tony G” as he is better known is a well known and very famous Australian poker player. Tony G moved to Australia at the age of 11 after already being the Rubiks Cube champion in his native Lithuania at the young age of 11 years old. Antanas Guoga fist started to play poker when he was 18 years old but he became famous with his wild table talk and sledging that was purely a tactic to intimidate players at the table to give himself a bigger edge over his rivals.

His monumental rant at Ralph Perry in the 2006 Intercontinental Poker Championships is remembered as being one of the most vicious verbal assaults ever in the history of televised poker. However his on screen rants are a far cry from what Tony G is really like away from the poker table and his personality can be quite inoffensive and charming. Of course this makes it look all the more deliberate when he baits people in this way.

He is also one of the most aggressive players on the table which is really connected to his game when you think about it. There is little point in having trashy table talk if you are the most tight aggressive player on the table. The entire point of this line of play is to drag your opponent away from their normal peaceful mental equilibrium in pots that you yourself are in. This means that in order to do this to the optimal effect that you must be constantly raising and re-raising. Then the combination of the table talk and aggressive play can often have a very severe effect on certain people!

If you are playing Online Texas Holdem poker then you will often feel aggrieved and annoyed when the same players keep pounding on you all the time and it makes you want to play back at them. Well imagine if that situation was taken from a live game and you could see your opponent directly and not only were they being very aggressive but also they were targeting and berating you. It is easy to see just how bad this could affect certain people.

But Tony G is also a very strong player in his own right and has many good top tournament results to prove that. He is still waiting for his first major WSOP or WPT title but that will surely be not far from coming for this very aggressive and talented player. Tony G will also be remembered for his colourful sledging on the final table of the European event of the WPT in 2003 at the Aviation Club. On that final table, Guoga basically needled everybody except the eventual winner Christer Johansson who remained coolness personified throughout.

Tony G recently launched his very own poker site a few years ago which brought him even more into the public eye. He was also in the news when he stated of his annoyance that Tiffany Michelle blatantly advertised Ultimate Bet on her clothing when he had personally backed her financially and had asked her to promote his own companies or companies that he was associated with at a recent WSOP main event. Love him or hate him, Tony G is definitely a person who you cannot ignore.