TJ Cloutier playing a final table on TCH Live
The Cookie is playing a final table on a live stream. $14K up top.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hNfMOF_...
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Nice work.
Not for nothing, but when you go through that Hendon Mob page, there are pretty much as many three-figure buy-ins as there are four- and five-figure entries. And granted, a $200+30 buy-in at the Gold Coast in 1993 is larger in real dollars than the $345 at TCH last weekend.
But let's not make it like Cloutier was some super high-roller back in the Reagan Administration but now he's slumming it with buy-ins that don't pay for a decent gaming console. It's clear he's been grinding this
In Spring 2014 a buddy and I were grinding @ WinStar for about three weeks. I saw TJ every day, and, every day, he was in the $40 Daily, as well as perpetually draped in some form of Taco Mayo gear. Always assumed they were staking the 40-ball.
Dude is a bum. Was a fixture at Choctaw in Durant back in the day and would beg regs for cash when he went busto. Never heard anything good about his repayment plans. He even asked me one time for $200 when I was cashing out at the cage and said "You see me here all the time and know who I am". At first, I was flattered to be asked, but I don't let people borrow money for gambling.
I can tell it again...
He was literally walking from table to table asking people to stake him in the WSOPc main at Choctaw back in 2014 or 15. I watched him work almost the whole room.
Probably 10-15 years ago, he was still a big name and could get some suckers to lend him money.
I don't know if he can't beat the games and/or blows his money on craps, etc. Not sure why he couldn't grind $400 tournament, some cash games, or something.
His books were the only tournament books until like 2004, and were just terrible. Real OMC style, don't play suited connectors much, don't bluff much. I don't know if he believed it, his coauthor wrote it, or it was intentionally bad advice. I guess you could get away with it then. The good players probably didn't need to make money from books, and didn't want to give away information.
He said reraises should be AA/KK only. However, he doubled someone up at the 2000 WSOP ME final table 3-betting, cbetting, and shoving the turn on a 5247 board and got called down by AK high.
Why the bump?
My TJ story. I sat next to him in a 2K tourney at the Bellagio, part of the Diamond Poker Classic. This was about 15 years ago. He was friendly as could be. Just before the break he says to me, "My buddy is bringing me some money a little later. Can you loan me 300 until then?" This is the first time I ever met him and he is asking me for money. I told him to wait until after the break. I go in the restroom and who do I see but my friend from L.A., Men Nguyen. I tell Men about TJ and he laughs, "If you give him any money it will be gone!" So now I go back to the table and TJ is waiting for me. I tell him I can't loan him any money. He makes a face and never says a word to me again. So much for our budding friendship.
My TJ story. I sat next to him in a 2K tourney at the Bellagio, part of the Diamond Poker Classic. This was about 15 years ago. He was friendly as could be. Just before the break he says to me, "My buddy is bringing me some money a little later. Can you loan me 300 until then?" This is the first time I ever met him and he is asking me for money. I told him to wait until after the break. I go in the restroom and who do I see but my friend from L.A., Men Nguyen. I tell Men about TJ and he laughs,
Ha how bad is it when an all time scumbag cheater piece of human bile like Men Nguyen correctly tells someone not to lend you money. Nice job TJ Cloudier!
Yeah, I would think he could grind $300 or whatever tournaments, but probably not $10Ks these days.
My TJ story. I sat next to him in a 2K tourney at the Bellagio, part of the Diamond Poker Classic. This was about 15 years ago. He was friendly as could be. Just before the break he says to me, "My buddy is bringing me some money a little later. Can you loan me 300 until then?" This is the first time I ever met him and he is asking me for money. I told him to wait until after the break. I go in the restroom and who do I see but my friend from L.A., Men Nguyen. I tell Men about TJ and he laughs,
Sounds like he would make people think they had made friends with this famous player and then ask for $300, which supposedly would be repayed in a few hours.
