Tony G. What an A$$

FullOf..IT

I know poker is a game of discipline but how neither of the blokes in this dont clonk this lad ill never know...*whoops"

ntlbell

He's really a nice guy.

The Ace Face

I remember watching the full final table on tv about 3 months ago, he abused the final players something rotten.Non stop crap but harmless stuff, nothing overly personal...you have to play along with him..the heads up guy ( not in video ) just sat there and Tony got to him. Yes his annoying and loud but he is a character.

R.

DeVore

He is the sombrero of ass-hats.

DeV.

Tar.Aldarion

From that video, prick.
Hate people like that. Just stfu.

roryc

He went on to knock him out, but apologised straight after

Ollieboy

Yeh I watch this a couple of months ago and thought it was brilliant television, I heard it was all an act, he wasn't even drinking. Its great entainment, but I think he went ott on this table.

I found him very hard to talk to and play with at the table, but a nice guy off the table and very smart, he know's exactly what he's doing and as a great business head. But on the table he just wants to crush you. I know he's planning to make it big in the states now and I think he won the Badboy WPT there recently.

I heard what he done at the WSOP last year was really bad.

FullOf..IT

Ollieboy wrote:

I heard what he done at the WSOP last year was really bad.

What did he do?

hotspur

I think he's great for TV poker, you cheer everytime he loses a big hand, and when he does he shuts up and has a face like a smacked arse lol.

"Sombrero of ass-hats" - splendid

Ollieboy

FullOf..IT wrote:

What did he do?

Its a long story, but he shout at another player for about and hour, telling him he wasn't good enough to play with him etc and than he talk him into calling him when he had a big hand. The guy nearly left in tears.

Corben Dallas

guess they get a lot of ignorant South Africans in the WSOP?

what a plonker. Great TV but u wouldnt want to face that abuse in a tournie.

roryc

south african?

hes lithuanian/ australian

Scotty #

I think I posted something about this a while back. I think his abuse of the other players, especialy when he got in to Surindars face and said he was going to tear him apart, should not have been tolerated. Have to hand it to Surinder though for keeping his cool when alot of players would have reacted.

EDIT: Other thread here>>http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054899361

mewso

Shaky ground there Full..OfIt. That links contains a video that may not be legal plus link to "cousins" recordings. Lets be careful folks.

ntlbell

musician wrote:

Shaky ground there Full..OfIt. That links contains a video that may not be legal plus link to "cousins" recordings. Lets be careful folks.

It might be an idea to pin this down, are the youtube posts of espn episodes legal? if not why has nothing been said before?

If I link to a poker article, somewhere on the page there's a link to recordings that can be obtained ilegally via BT or whatever, I can't see how that effects boards?

if someone that has a link on their blog here one day decided to make an entry in their blog and links ilegal material, should the link in the signature then be removed?

mewso

I'm more concerned with the fact that that blog had a link to a WPT episode file which is not ok. If it was just the TonyG video or youtube I would be ok with it.

RasTa

More of this "great" man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMPdKJXR6qo&search=tony%20g

ionapaul

How is this tolerated on televised tournaments - is it only because it will boost ratings? He would be kicked out of most tournies in Dublin for these antics and probably get smacked around outside.

sunzz

It's tolerated for the simple fact that it sells, the general public hate a bully and love an underdog, people tune in and are gripped to the tv shouting for the underdog to take the bully down. This sort of tv, whilst obnoxious in a general point of view rakes in viewers which in turn means bigger rating, more rating = more advertising and essentialy more money

Money makes the world go round.

DubTony

sunzz wrote:

It's tolerated for the simple fact that it sells, the general public hate a bully and love an underdog, people tune in and are gripped to the tv shouting for the underdog to take the bully down. This sort of tv, whilst obnoxious in a general point of view rakes in viewers which in turn means bigger rating, more rating = more advertising and essentialy more money

Money makes the world go round.

Would the ratings be even bigger if someody kicked the crap out of him at the table?

califano

DubTony wrote:

Would the ratings be even bigger if someody kicked the crap out of him at the table?

Tony
He certainly wouldnt have given you that verbal.
'Dub Tony the most feared player in Irish poker'*

*In a self preservation sense that is