Tony G Is FURIOUS With Nik Airball!! [He QUITS!]
Published 2024-06-19
When you are playing deep stacked poker, is it not advised to 4-bet very frequently, especially with hands like jacks or queens. Better candidates to 4-bet with are aces or kings for your premium holdings, and ace-x suited or king-x suited to build your bluffs from.
Nik Airball is an investment banker and an amateur poker player, he occasionally plays at The Lodge Card Club but mainly plays on the Hustler Casino Live poker stream. He will play any stakes, and is often involved in heated table talk with the other poker players. Nik Airball is almost fluent in Mandarin, engaging in table talk with many Mandarin-speaking poker players. He often voices his strong opinions about current trends, topics and scandals in the poker world on social media and poker podcasts.
Antanas Guoga or, more commonly known as Tony G is a Lithuanian-Australian businessman and also a part-time professional poker player. Tony G has played on many live poker streams throughout the years such as: Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker, The Big Game, and many more. He is known for his theatrics at the table and over the top celebrations. His most famous quote is “On Your Bike” when he stacks an opponent.
Hustler Casino Live is a full-scale, high-value poker production. Close to a million dollars was spent transforming the casino’s high-limit poker room, the Crystal Room, into the set of this new state-of-the-art live show. Hustler Casino Live looks more like coverage of a TV broadcast sporting event and appeals to those beyond the poker community. Unscripted and unedited, they host regular poker streams such as ‘Max Pain Monday’ and ‘Thirsty Thursday’. Some of the most notable poker players to have appeared on the show are Phil Ivey ‘The Tiger Woods of Poker’ ‘RaiseOnce’, Tom Dwan ’durrrr’, Phil Hellmuth ‘The Poker Brat’, Chris Moneymaker, Doug Polk ‘WCGRider, Garrett Adelstein ‘Gman’, Tony Guoga ‘Tony G’ and many more.
This hand occurred during the highly anticipated $1,000,000 minimum buy-in cash game on the Hustler Casino Live stream. It had an array of professionals and businessmen competing against one another. Some of the players that played in this game were Doug Polk, Tom Dwan, Tony G, Rampage, Wesley, Stanley Tang, Nik Airball, Huss, J.R., Double M, Blank Check Ben, Brandon Steven, Charles, and Rob Yong
🔍 Preflop:
Huss raises to $6,000 from under-the-gun +1 with pocket queens. Nik Airball calls on the button with T9 of diamonds before Tony G squeezes to $40,000 from the big blind with his pocket aces. Huss calls with his premium pocket pair, and Nik calls with his suited connector. They head to the flop three-way.
💸 Flop - Kh 8c 7s:
The king-high rainbow flop falls, and Tony G continuation bets for $40,000. Huss calls with his queens, but Airball takes the aggressive line with his open-ended straight draw by raising to $150,000. Tony G isn’t going anywhere with his pocket rockets and calls to see the turn, but Huss correctly folds his ladies, and they now head to the turn heads-up.
💣 Turn - 6c:
The 6 of clubs on the turn brings a potential backdoor flush draw. After Tony G checks with his aces, Nik Airball puts out a bet of $225,000, having hit one of the cards he needs to turn the nut straight and have Tony G drawing dead.
How will Tony G respond to this bet? He has the best starting hand in poker! Will he fold, call, or raise? You have to watch this entire poker video to see the result.
You should stay and watch the ending to see how the two trash talkers react to each other after the hand!
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Jonathan Little analyzes live poker hands from TV poker shows such as Poker After Dark, Hustler Casino Live, The Lodge Poker Club & PokerGO. He also analyzes popular poker vloggers such as Rampage Poker, Brad Owen, Jaman Burton, Ashley Sleeth, Wolfgang Poker and others!
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All Comments (21)
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Would YOU have been able to fold pocket aces here? 🧐
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This, to me, is always going to be the most embarrassing Nik Airball hand. All those horrible punts were supposed to serve a purpose -- that in this situation, you get paid. And he still can't get paid.
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It's Tony's money. He wants to leave, who is to say he can't? If HCL has a problem with it, then don't invite him back.
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Tubby Airball could laugh and prick all he wants...unlike Tony G he would have NEVER been able in that spot to fold aces so what's he to be proud of, being a lucky goof!?
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Tony G felt the fix was in, maybe it was.
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you can leave any cash poker table at any time for sure. Tony has been around big/private games enough to know when shenanigans are afoot so I like that he trusted his instincts.
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tony isn't the maniac everyone seems to think he is. Every time i see him play a hand on TV it's a good hand.
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Excellent fold against that clown. Airball got a dream board but found a way to win the minimum.
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Tony G made a great fold and left when he needed to. That is strong poker. Have the brains to know when you aren´t having fun. It happens.
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Tony G's fold is amazing.
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That's why Tony G is one of the best he can smell a rat
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This shows how bad of a player Airball is. He bluffs off his chips constantly yet people find folds when he actually has it
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Unless you have a contract to stay for a period of time, no game can force you to stay. If my head is not in the game, I am leaving. Why waste money?
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If you’re losing big like Tony was then leaving early shouldn’t be an issue. Leaving early a winner or close to even in any invite game will not get you invited back
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Anyone who plays hustler casino for big money after that scandal that showed scam, bad decision.
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“can’t no one compel another man to engage in recreation.” ~ Buster Scruggs
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Airball could have gotten sooo much more value IMO
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You changed my life man. Been delved in study for months mostly all with your teachings. I’ve turned $2,400 into $4,300 in 56 HRS of play at 1/2. You’re the 🐐
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Perfect example of how much class Nik has. ZERO.
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You can leave a poker game whenever you want. Ppl gotta chill. It’s his money
