T.J. Cloutier

Name: T.J. Cloutier
Current Residence: Richardson, Texas
Birth Date: October 13, 1939
Birth Place: Albany, Calif., United States

T.J. Cloutier attended the University of California at Berkeley on a baseball and football athletic scholarship. He was later drafted into the army where he began to refine his poker game. Upon leaving the army, he played for the Montreal Allouettes in the Canadian Football League and was then traded to the Toronto Argonauts. Canadian football is at least as rough as the American game; T.J. had some experiences that, if not quite wild Texas... Read more >>

Trivia

Author of multiple poker books with Tom McEvoy, including Championship Pot-Limit and No-Limit Hold'em
Graduate of U.C. Berkeley
Played in the 1959 Rose Bowl
Played pro football with the Montreal Alouettes and the Toronto Argonauts
Travels to tournaments with Joy, his wife

Recent Tournament Placings

Tournament	Place	Winnings
WPT Season 6, WPT World Championship	34th	$65,955
WPT Season 6, World Poker Open	21st	$12,060
WPT Season 6, World Poker Finals	12th	$72,955
WPT Season 6, Gulf Coast Poker Championship	21st	$14,017
2007 WSOP, Event 47, No-Limit Hold'em	17th	$25,593
2007 WSOP, Event 37, Pot-Limit Hold'em	11th	$10,902
2007 WSOP, Event 22, No-Limit Hold'em	23rd	$20,034
2007 Special, NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship	9th	$25,000
2006 WSOP, Event 37, No-Limit Hold'em	120th	$4,591
2006 WSOP, Event 27, No-Limit Hold'em	152nd	$2,902
2006 WSOP, Event 20, H.O.R.S.E.	5th	$480,480
2005 WSOP, Event 34, $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em	57th	$1,500
2005 WSOP, Event 13, $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em	1st	$657,100
2005 WSOP, Event 11, $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em	44th	$2,980
2004 WSOP, Event 29, Limit Hold'em	9th	$20,020
2004 WSOP, Event 26, Seven Card Razz	1st	$90,500
2004 WSOP, Event 25, Pot-Limit Hold'em	15th	$8,720
1987 WSOP, $1,000 Limit Omaha	1st	$72,000
1994 WSOP, $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em	1st	$163,000
1994 WSOP, $2,500 Omaha Eight-or-Better	1st	$135,000
1998 WSOP, $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha	1st	$136,000

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Player Statistics

Cashes	27
Total Winnings	$3,863,518
First Place Finishes	6
WSOP Bracelets	6

Player Analysis of T.J. Cloutier

Description

Conventional wisdom is that T.J.'s non-poker gambling has limited his monetary success.

T.J. often shows his good hands because he likes to give the image that he is always there. His philosophy is: if you never get called, you will end up with all of the chips.

T.J. has probably played in and won more major tournaments than any other person.

Best Game

Tournament No-Limit Hold'em

Weakness

A seven on the craps table at the wrong time

T.J. Cloutier's Score

5.7/10

Agressiveness 6
Looseness 5
Limit 5
No-Limit 7
Side Games 3
Steam Control 4
Against Strong Players 6
Tournaments 7
Short-Handed 6
Against Weak Players 8

Amusing Anecdote

When T.J. and I first played together, we had discussed how I had played some No-Limit Hold'em in Houston in the '70s whereas he had played in Dallas. I moved in on someone with ace-king. The player called with a pair of queens and I won the race.

T.J. said, “I can see you learned to play in Houston. Those Houston players would come to Dallas and play that ace-king, but they'd always end up against a pair of aces. That's why we call that hand ‘Walking back to Houston.'”

Analysis brought to you by Barry Greenstein