POKER INFO - PROILE - Tony D

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.

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

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?

just goes to show PHIL HELLMUTH RULES

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.

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.

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!