Tj Cloutier

Cloutier: biography October 13, 1939 – Thomas James 'T.J.' Cloutier (born October 13, 1939) is a professional poker player from Richardson, Texas. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006. Early years Cloutier was born in Albany, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley on an athletic scholarship. Players learn how to build up enough chips to make it to the final table and give themselves the best chance of winning the title, the trophy, and the money, using the same strategies that have taken T.J. Cloutier to the championship table of more tournaments than any player in the history of poker. Total life earnings: $10,443,473. Latest cash: $2,083 on 13-Jan-2020. Click here to see the details of Thomas John Cloutier's 409 cashes. Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store. Find the perfect T.J. Cloutier stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Select from premium T.J. Cloutier of the highest quality.

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T.J. Cloutier attended the University of California at Berkeley on an athletic scholarship for football and baseball and played in the Rose Bowl in 1959. However, he later dropped out because of family financial hardship.

Cloutier was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he learned to play poker. After the Army, he played football in the Canadian Football League for Toronto and Montreal, but an injury cut his career short.

Cloutier then started a food company, but it was not successful, so he moved to Texas to work on oil rigs. On his off days he began to play poker, and quit his job in after realizing that he was winning more money playing poker than working.

Cloutier specializes in playing tournament poker, especially No Limit and Pot Limit Hold'em. He is the only person in the history of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) to have won events in all three types of Omaha played at the World Series - (Pot Limit High, Limit High, and Limit 8-or-Better High-low split).

Despite winning dozens of tournaments, he has never won the main event of the World Series of Poker, although he has placed four times in the top 5, including two 2nd place finishes in 1985 and 2000.

Cloutier also plays in World Poker Tour events, where his highest finish to date was 3rd place in the 2003 Legends of Poker event won by Mel Judah.

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Cloutier has also featured in the Ultimate Poker Challenge, the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament and Poker Royale: Battle of the Ages.As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $6,700,000.

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Aggressiveness: 6
Looseness: 5
Short-handed: 6
Limit: 5
No-limit: 7
Tournaments: 7
Side games: 3
Steam control: 4
Against weak players: 8
Against strong players: 6

Best game: Tournament no-limit hold’em
Weakness: A seven on the craps table at the wrong time

Conventional wisdom is that TJ’s non-poker gambling has limited his monetary success.

TJ 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.

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

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Amusing anecdote

When TJ 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.

TJ 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.’”

Title: On The Road Again
Artist: Willie Nelson
Year: 1992

Reason for this song choice

T. J. loves to tell stories from a long time ago about poker game he traveled to in Texas. Also, he has been on the road, traveling to poker tournaments, more than anyone else.