Poker Pro Tony G Knocks Alderney Gambling Control Over Full Tilt Poker

The BBC featured an interview Wednesday with noted poker pro Antanas Guoga, who is better known as Tony G. 

Throughout the painstaking process of trying to squeeze out whatever limited information was available from the Full Tilt Poker camp, Guoga routinely found himself providing misleading news to the public.  Not that he can necessarily be blamed as FTP had a habit of supplying whomever was there to listen with “mistruths”. 

And then there is the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, the respected agency that licensed Full Tilt Poker.  Guoga suggests they are partially to blame for the fact that Full Tilt Poker players are still owed millions of dollars following a US federal indictment on April 15.  He told the BBC regulation was sorely lacking. 

Mr Guoga said: "[The commission] had an obligation to those players and people. They are there to protect the young and the vulnerable and in my opinion they have failed to do that."

Andre Wilsenach, the commission's executive director, said: "We do have an obligation to protect players and we do so by keeping the industry free of crime to ensure the games the players play are fair

"Our operators do not exploit the young and the vulnerable.

"As far as players' funds go, we have never set ourselves up to underwrite these funds, no regulator in the world does that."

"As far as players' funds go, we have never set ourselves up to underwrite these funds, no regulator in the world does that."

- Chris Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher