POKER PLAYER PROFILES

Tony D (Tam Duong) is a veteran high-stakes cash game player who is known as a "jammer" who plays very aggressively. Although he isn't known as a tournament player, he finished 8th in the 2002 WSOP where he played very passively at the final table which is not his style. Basically Tony sat out the first two levels and was forced to play a Q J all-in when the blinds went to $15k/$30k and the ante at $5,000. Robert Varkonyi had most of John Shipley's chips by then and called with A K. In the 2003 WSOP he made what some people call a huge mistake when he folded trips to Hellmuth when Hellmuth only had 2 pair.

COMMENTS:

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July 9, 2011
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bad_dog76
December 18, 2007
Got Tony D and Tony G mixed up LOL!
Where's the Tony G. page? That guy is awesome!

bad_dog76
November 30, 2007
This isn't Tony D!
Where the hell is the page on the "Australian Airbag"? That's the real Tony D.

This guy is a nobody!

boulez
August 25, 2005
he is anoying, y hate this guu, mr lederer almost beat (with his fists) to this poor player for being so stupid,

lerinard
August 8, 2005
folding trips with only one of the cards in your hand, and 2 pair on the board is okay. if he held a pocket pair and got 3 of a kind by hitting the third card on the board, that is a diferent matter

Unregistered
July 11, 2005
good player

Unregistered
April 17, 2005
Phil made the mistake he put Tony D on a drawing hand like Ace Queen suited. Tony thought for sure Phil knew he had at least three jacks (he did check raise Phil). But anyway Phil misread Tony and reraised, Tony thinking Phil had to know he had three jacks could only fold because Phil was representing Kings. Phil screwed up and got lucky you don't see pros mess up their reads much so its an interesting hand

WTF??
February 21, 2005
Hand fabrication? A poker conspiracy theory? Next you will tell me that Hellmuth was in the book depository and Tony was on the grassy knoll.

LOLOL
February 17, 2005
you guys are all idiots, the fold of trip jacks was a fake. ESPN edited that shit to make it look like it was a badass bluff. Get your facts stright idiots

Chad
December 2, 2004
He's probably really good at limit games with that strategy though.

Chad
December 2, 2004
Folding the trips at the 2003 WSOP was indeed the biggest mistake that i've ever seen in poker. He either did not know what he had or was playing like a ******. You can only play so tight before you are just plain retarded. It was one of the worst folds I've ever seen!

jomatty
October 6, 2004
ask the top pros and they will tell you that he is a very strong player. people see him play probably 5 hands (1 of which it seems highly likely was fabricated by espn) and people develop opinions on his play. great side game player.

BL.
October 5, 2004
By now, word has gotten out that ESPN most likely fabricated the hand. I doubt Tony D minds anyway, he probably makes even more money off cash game guys who think they can bluff him out.

smash
August 14, 2004
just goes to show PHIL HELLMUTH RULES

Dooces/g_moss00
July 3, 2004
Of course it was a bad lay down, but it wasn't stupid. It's no limit. You can make a bad read at any time and your tourney is over. If it had been anyone besides Helmuth across from him, I'm sure that Tony would have played. It's kind of bogus when people are judging a guy's play when they only saw 5 hands at that table on t.v. instead of knowing what the other 300 hands they played that day were like. There's a certain level of karma that surrounds a table. Maybe that played a hand in Tony's lay-down. Maybe he caught a couple of bad-beats that weren't televised. Whatever the case may be, I'm sure that all the losers that sit at home and play nickel and dime games think they can stand-in with the big boys and hold their own.I guess it's idiots like that that allow the pro's to make their living playing cards.By the way, someone told me that Tony was from Minneapolis, is that true?

bk
June 30, 2004
You do not fold trip jacks when Phil Helmuth stands up and asks you how much you got left its just an intinmidation question. Wow

sportsbettor
June 28, 2004
dude is good, but how the hell do you fold those three jacks! horrible play to fold in that spot versus such an azz like helmuth.

flush80
June 24, 2004
By the way, Tony D's sister's name is Tammy

shizz
June 20, 2004
I cant believe he let Helmuth outplay him in that hand. Phil asked how much he had left and didn't put him in and just raised. What a tell. I would have reraised all-in right then. A very crappy player who gets scared easily.

hah
June 7, 2004
he looks like jet li in that picture.

tenjack
May 15, 2004
I wouldn't piss him off

jm.
May 11, 2004
to judge anyones play by one hand is silly)(esp. considering it seemed like a reasonable laydown.) hes been a top player for years just ask anyone whos played him in NL side action.

Burt
May 5, 2004
I think that was an understandable lay down with Phil considering the re-raise, but you can't be scared at the same time. I couldn't see myself laying that down, but maybe that is because I am not disciplined enough to do so. If I would have been beat I would have paid him off. Overall, he looked like a good player though.

Unregistered
May 2, 2004
I can't believ he made it to the final table that one year, .... I forgot which one. but that one hand with hellmuth he folded with 3 jacks and hellmuth had nothin. he's really funny tho

Chris
April 15, 2004
Tony D is a stud, and he's certainly better than all of you.

Matt
March 24, 2004
You can't call a guy a moron for folding trips to anyone in that spot, especially a guy like Hellmuth. Tony was worried that Phil had a full house with KJ or had him outkicked with AJ or QJ. It's an understandable laydown, especially when its for all of your chips.

Gman
March 18, 2004
I do not necessarily know how great of a player he is overall considering the fact I only saw about 3-4 hands on that WSOP championship, but his fold was somewhat understandable. I think the thing he was most worried about was probably being outkicked right? A 10 kicker with the pot being THAT big is nothing much really...I probably would have called their but Tony's records speak for themselves. He was at the final table last year and according to Phil (I can't remember the article) Tony lost all of his chips on a beat basically. Tony raised with J10 and Farha flat called with QJ. Tony made two pair on the flop and bet hard all the way to the river where Farha hit a Q and took all of Tony's chips. Give the guy SOMETHING of a break, no player is perfect.

Joe tomey
March 18, 2004
I would have folded that hand too.

Gtycoon
March 15, 2004
Yeah sure. Im sure u guys could beat him.You probably couldn't drop a pair of twoslet alone trip Jacks.

The dude
March 10, 2004
He's like Scotty Nguyen but without the Scotty or the Nguyen.

Unregistered
February 23, 2004
Yeah he got bluffed with his set of Jokers to Phil Hellmuth who had 7's wired.

Kc KId
February 12, 2004
He's lousy

obsidian
Tony D January 30, 2004
hes aight, nuin great