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Tony G Takes Down €1.85 Million PLO Pot
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2013-02-20 09:18
Tony G has stayed away from the high stakes tables for a while, but the
PartyPoker pro and successful
online poker investor is back in the limelight. One has got to give it to Guoga, he certainly knows how to make an entrance: his official return to the nosebleed stakes live poker tables took place in the King’s Casino Rozvadov, in the Czech Republic, where he took on the owner of the establishment, Leon Tsoukernik. Tony G is friends with Tsoukernik, so the match-up was basically a friendly bout of high stakes PLO action.
The match commenced on Friday, February 15, at the €2k/€4k stakes and Tsoukernik was the one who finished the day in the black, by a measure of about €500k.
On Sunday, the two set down again and this time Tony G dropped another €1 million. On the final day of the match-up, the game degenerated into a blind-shove fest, and that’s when Tony G managed to grab a record breaking pot of €1.85 million to erase all his losses and to finish the trip with an overall profit of €300k. According to Tony G, the hand in question saw him call his opponent’s shove with A,A,J,7. Tsoukernik had J,J,6,7 and the board didn’t save him. Even though he managed to leave with $300k of his opponent’s money, Tony G is not the kind of guy who just takes the money and runs. He will be back to play Tsoukernik again in a few days, after which, he’ll head over to London to play in PartyPoker’s Premier League VI.
In other PartyPoker related news: PartyPoker have announced that they will be the sponsors of two WPT stops in Canada in 2013. The two events will be the WPT’s Canadian Spring Championship and the WPT Montreal.
