“On your bike!”
For a generation of poker fans, that sentence is enough to identify Tony G.
Antanas Guoga built one of the biggest personalities of the television poker boom. He berated opponents, celebrated pots as though he had won world titles and appeared perfectly comfortable becoming the villain at any table he joined.
But what is Tony G doing now?
The answer in 2026 is considerably more complicated than playing poker.
Guoga has moved through poker, media, politics, cryptocurrency and investing during a career that rarely seems to remain in the same place for long. His latest move might be the most unexpected yet.
Tony G is now heavily involved in quantum technology.
And if his LinkedIn profile is any indication, poker is no longer occupying most of his working day. His recent posts are dominated by technology, investing, crypto, business and the occasional glimpse of family life.
Tony G Quick Facts
For anyone who remembers the trash-talking poker player but has lost track of what happened next:
- Real name: Antanas Guoga
- Known as: Tony G
- Born: December 17, 1973
- Birthplace: Kaunas, Lithuania
- Raised partly in: Melbourne, Australia
- Recorded live poker winnings: More than $11 million
- Largest recorded tournament cash: $1.39 million
- Lithuania all-time money list: No. 1
- Former role: Member of the European Parliament
- Poker business: Founder of PokerNews
- Current major focus: Quantum technology, crypto and investing
- Current qLABS role: President
- Other interests: Technology, media and horse racing
Those numbers tell only a small part of the story.
So, What Is Tony G Doing Now?
Look at Guoga’s LinkedIn page in August 2026 and something immediately stands out.
There isn’t much poker.
Instead, there is quantum computing, cryptocurrency infrastructure, investments, business lessons and updates from companies he has backed.
His latest professional obsession is qLABS, where Guoga serves as president. The company is working on quantum-resistant technology intended to protect cryptocurrency and other digital assets against the potential capabilities of future quantum computers.
It sounds a long way from calling a river bet.
For Guoga, however, it follows a familiar pattern.
Has Tony G Really Gone From Poker to Quantum Technology?
Yes.
Guoga recently summed up the progression himself, describing a career that has taken him from poker into online media, crypto and now quantum technology. His advice was to remain close to industries that genuinely interest you, learn from the people building within them and make decisions before an opportunity becomes obvious to everybody else.
That philosophy explains quite a lot about Tony G.
Poker was never simply poker.
Guoga understood the commercial opportunity surrounding the game remarkably early. He founded PokerNews more than two decades ago, building a media company around an industry he already understood as a player.
In another LinkedIn post, Guoga made an interesting distinction about that period of his life.
He doesn’t see himself as having turned poker into a career.
He says he turned poker into a business.
That distinction matters.
The loud television personality was simultaneously building companies behind the scenes.
Tony G Is Trying to Build the ‘PokerNews of Quantum’
Perhaps the most interesting development of all is that Guoga appears to be revisiting his poker media playbook.
Except this time there are no cards.
In August, Guoga revealed that his latest news venture is qnews.io, covering quantum computing, post-quantum security and companies operating within the emerging industry.
He explicitly connected the idea to PokerNews.
Guoga said he started PokerNews more than 20 years ago because he believed poker needed a proper news site. After becoming increasingly involved with quantum technology, he began to feel the same way about that industry.
By July, according to figures Guoga posted himself, the new publication had produced 159 articles during the month, taking its total to 227 articles and 26 guides. He said July output had increased by around 165% from June.
There is a fascinating circularity to it.
The poker player became a poker media entrepreneur.
More than two decades later, the technology investor is becoming a technology media entrepreneur.
Could Tony G Repeat the PokerNews Formula?
That may ultimately be one of the more interesting questions surrounding his latest venture.
PokerNews arrived at an unusually good moment.
Online poker was beginning to explode, the poker boom was approaching and millions of new players would soon be searching online for tournament results, strategy and industry information.
Guoga had positioned a media business directly in front of that growth.
Quantum computing is obviously an entirely different industry, but his reasoning appears similar: identify a technical subject that could become significantly more important, then build an information business while the mainstream audience is still learning what it means.
For a man who made his name by putting opponents under pressure, Tony G has spent much of his business career making bets before the river.
Why Is Tony G Worried About Quantum Computers?
Guoga’s interest isn’t simply in quantum computers becoming faster.
His particular focus is what they could eventually do to cryptography.
Much of modern cryptocurrency depends on cryptographic systems designed to be prohibitively difficult for conventional computers to defeat. A sufficiently capable quantum computer could eventually threaten some of those protections.
Guoga believes preparation needs to begin before that point arrives.
His work with qLABS has centered on areas including:
- Quantum-resistant cryptocurrency technology
- Protection for digital assets
- Post-quantum blockchain infrastructure
- Security protocols
- Blockchain migration technology
- Developer tools and integrations
In early 2026, qLABS was also involved in a quantum-resistant Layer 1 migration toolkit intended to help existing blockchains transition towards post-quantum cryptography.
Tony G appears happy to make the bet early.
Whatever Happened to Tony G’s Crypto Investments?
Quantum technology isn’t his first venture into cryptocurrency.
Far from it.
Guoga has spent years investing in blockchain businesses. His crossover between the two worlds makes him particularly interesting as cryptocurrency becomes increasingly embedded within poker.
That relationship can already be seen elsewhere in the industry. At the 2026 WSOP, players used Solana to pay for almost $23 million worth of tournament entries, showing how far the relationship between poker and digital assets has progressed.
Guoga continues discussing his technology investments publicly. Recent LinkedIn activity has included SOL Strategies and Houdini Swap, alongside his quantum projects.
His posts aren’t all victory laps, either.
One particularly striking recent story concerned a $1 million investment that ultimately became worth approximately $36 following four reverse stock splits totaling 1:75,000.
Rather than hiding it, Guoga used the loss to discuss investment discipline and accepting responsibility when a decision goes badly.
That might be the least Tony G-sounding Tony G story imaginable.
Did Tony G Really Make a $300 Million Fortune?
There is another number that inevitably appears when looking at Tony G’s recent life.
$300 million.
Australian mainstream media has taken an interest in his transformation from poker player to businessman.
In 2025, The Australian profiled Guoga and examined how the former poker professional says he built a fortune through PokerNews, gambling-industry earnings, property, mining shares, technology stocks, cryptocurrency and blockchain investments.
The newspaper reported Guoga’s claim that his fortune had reached around $300 million.
That figure should be treated as Guoga’s own estimate rather than an independently verified calculation.
But it demonstrates something important about his post-poker career.
Tournament winnings are no longer remotely capable of explaining Tony G’s wealth.
His recorded poker results exceed $11 million before buy-ins and other expenses. If his estimates of his wider wealth are accurate, business and investment have long since overtaken poker as his primary financial story.
Tony G Became a Melbourne Cup-Winning Owner
As if poker, politics, cryptocurrency and quantum computing were not enough, Guoga has another serious interest.
Horse racing.
And in 2025 it produced one of the biggest wins of his life.
Half Yours, a horse in which Guoga held an ownership interest, won the 2025 Melbourne Cup at Flemington.
This wasn’t a minor racing success. Half Yours won Australia’s most famous horse race, defeating Goodie Two Shoes and Middle Earth.
Australian national broadcaster ABC News reported on Half Yours’ Melbourne Cup victory, with Jamie Melham riding the Tony and Calvin McEvoy-trained horse to victory in the A$10 million race. Melham also made history as the first female jockey to complete the Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double.
For Guoga, the Australian connection runs considerably deeper than simply owning part of a successful racehorse.
He emigrated to Australia as a child and has spoken about arriving without much money. In a recent LinkedIn post, he recalled helping his mother while she cleaned houses, alongside mowing lawns, washing cars and even repairing sewing machines to earn money.
Going from that childhood to owning a share of a Melbourne Cup winner makes Half Yours a particularly significant chapter in his story.
And apparently winning one Melbourne Cup hasn’t satisfied him.
Guoga has also revealed the purchase of a horse called Augustus, with the explicit hope that it could eventually run in the Melbourne Cup.
Can Tony G Win the Melbourne Cup Again?
That gives poker fans another Tony G project to keep an eye on.
Horse racing has plenty in common with some of Guoga’s other interests. There is money, imperfect information, risk, competition and absolutely no guarantee that a large investment will produce the desired result.
Poker players are supposed to understand variance.
Owning racehorses may be one way of testing that theory.
Does Tony G Still Play Poker?
This is probably the question most poker fans actually want answered.
Yes, but far less frequently than during his peak years.
Tony G has never completely disappeared from the game.
His tournament history contains more than $11 million in recorded live cashes, while his biggest result came at Triton Poker Madrid in 2022 when he finished runner-up in the €100,000 Short Deck Main Event for approximately $1.39 million.
Cash games have provided some of his more recent memorable moments.
During a 2024 Triton Poker cash game in Montenegro, Guoga played an extraordinary $2 million pot with jack-high, successfully bluffing his opponent after previously losing two seven-figure pots during the session.
It was vintage Tony G.
The difference is that poker now appears to be something he can dip into rather than something around which the rest of his life revolves.
Our full Tony G player profile charts the journey from his early poker career and notorious televised appearances through business and politics.
Will We See the Old Tony G Again?
That is harder to answer.
At 52, Guoga certainly doesn’t need to grind a conventional tournament schedule simply to move further up the all-time money list.
But high-stakes poker has always had one thing capable of attracting wealthy businessmen and former professionals back to the table.
Competition.
Tony G still has that.
Put him in a sufficiently large cash game, preferably surrounded by players willing to talk back, and the businessman, investor and quantum technology executive has a habit of disappearing.
The Tony G poker fans remember tends to return remarkably quickly.
Tony G Has Become Much Bigger Than His Poker Character
There is an odd contrast between the Tony G of the television poker boom and Antanas Guoga in 2026.
One became famous for shouting at poker players.
The other discusses quantum-resistant cryptography, blockchain infrastructure, investment strategy and media businesses with more than 13,000 followers on LinkedIn.
They are, of course, the same person.
Perhaps that is what makes Guoga such an unusual figure in poker history.
Poker didn’t become his destination. It became his starting point.
It helped create Tony G, provided the knowledge behind PokerNews and eventually gave Guoga a platform from which to move into businesses far beyond the game.
More than two decades later, he still occasionally turns up at a poker table and reminds everyone why they remember him.
But if you want to know what Tony G is doing now, don’t look at the tournament schedule first.
Look at quantum technology.
