I just got done reading Tony D's Blog and he describes a situation in which Tony was involved in and hers the story....

An orbit or so later a new player is moved to the table on the direct left of Tony Hachem. As the player sets his chips down he's dealt his cards and puts his hand on them while standing up. At this moment Tony Hachem raises to 4500 and the player being moved looks at his cards while standing up and then raises it to 20,000 while in the process of sitting down but technically not in his seat yet. This sets off Tony who starts demanding that the other players hand be called dead because he was not in his seat. There is moderate argument between him and the dealer before the floor is called over. The moved player, Tony, and the dealer all explain their sides of what happened in what order. Tony's description of events involve considerable colorful language. The tournament director thinks things over then rules that the hand is still live because the player was being moved.
"That's ****ing ridiculous!!" fumes Tony.
"EVERY ****ING TIME IN THIS CASINO! THESE ****ING DEALERS HAVE NO CLUE, LAST YEAR THE DEALER TOLD A PLAYER TO CALL MY BET AND YET AGAIN THIS YEAR THEY **** UP AND HE'S JUST TRYING TO COVER HIS ASS!"
The dealer remains quiet and motionless, unsure how to react to the verbal bombardment.
"TONY! LANGUAGE!" reprimands the tournament director.
"****ING RIDICULOUS!" he repeats. "I don't agree with the ruling, bring over Danny McDonough!"
Danny quickly hurries over to the table and yet again the events of the hand are rehashed. Throughout the telling the player who has reraised Tony tells him that he's happy to show him his cards after the hand. Tony tells him it's not his fault and continues to assign blame to the dealer. Danny considers the story and tells Tony that he is not the tournament director for this tournament and therefore the tournament directors ruling on the situation is the one that stands. Tony remains sitting arms crossed in his chair swearing and leaving his cards in front of him, in play. God knows how long the whole saga has taken at this point. Eventually Elliot, who is seating two seats to Tony's left, pipes up and says "Okay, I've got to call the clock here."
"OH WHAT THE **** ARE YOU GETTING INVOLVED FOR!?" explodes Tony.
"You're not even in the hand mate! Shut up before I put one on your chin and knock you back to Canada!" he threatens.
Tony is, by my guess, 5'9" and 160 pounds in his early thirties. Elliot appears to be around 6'5" and an athletic looking 225 and 21 years old. He's a giant ****ing dude. Elliot keeps his cool though, and tells Tony something like "I need to play poker here man."
Tony remains motionless in his chair fuming for another moment or so. The clock has been officially called and after counting down most of his seconds Tony angrily mucks his hand. The player who reraised him shows him 88

that's neat

why is it sometimes i accidentally drag these links into the quick reply box

does his brother back him because he has never picked up a large score according to THM database.

oi oi oi

worst ending evaaar...

I've never heard of this guy.

let's start another hachem is a douche thread

hate TH ever since neil channing blogged he was a douche for not showing down even though action was on tony.

sigh

being a db runs in the family.

Does this qualify as an angleshoot? IMO, it does. Anyways epic dbaggery, but possible human rights issue as well.

Would have been awesome if he had AA and the whole saga was a complete level to get the guy who re-raised to call his shove. But somehow I don't think Tony is anywhere near this smart

dbaggery on the part of tony

This is why I hate 90% of poker players

i'm in tony hachem's world?

fml

just another story of a crybaby finding a little tiny excuse to exaggerate when he finds him self in an uncomfortable position.

what a whiner. behave like you got some M'***** sense boy.

If you're ever on a table with Tony call him 'J.B.' (Joe's Brother), he will guaranteed insta-tilt.

The reason he can play tourneys at all is because he is sponsored by Stars for being J.B.

Someone has to find a link to the clip from WSOP where he doesn't even realise his opponent has turned a straight until Joe, who is railing him, points it out; one of the funniest TV-poker moments of all time.

fyp

He's just trying to live up to the level of douchebaggness that his brother has set. His brother set the bar high, this dickhead is doing a good job in matching it.

Tony is a much bigger douche than his brother, if that was possible

tldr

fyp

There are many players who deserve "one on the chin" imo

truth. i played with him on a WSOP table, he had a huge ego but was a huge nit who pretty much blinded himself out and complained of cold cards. i considered giving him my dusty harrington on hold em book

JH is a great guy compared to TH - saw him lay down a set on a board with 2 clubs because he didnt want to "race" for his tourney life.