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T.J. Cloutier: 'You don’t need a hand to win in those games — but it sure does help'

By launchpoker, Nov 22, 2004
T.J. Cloutier: 'You don’t need a hand to win in those games — but it sure does help'

  T.J. Cloutier is one of the best tournament players and though he had never won at the WSOP he made more than $1,000,000 at it. When saying that he had never won at the Main Event I want to add: yet. He doesn’t rely on luck. That’s why he won about 55 events with $500 (or higher) buy-ins.


  T.J. Cloutier began to play poker when he was in the army. Then he played for the Montreal Alloutes of the Canadian Football League, then for Toronto Argonauts. But everything led him to poker table. Like Doyle Brunson he got a knee injure and began to play poker...again. Though he played only on his days off he managed to make more money than working a regular job: “I went to work for six months as a derrick man on the oil rigs. On my off days, I was playing poker. Pretty soon, I was making more money at poker than I was on the rigs -- and I'd been freezing up there, anyway -- so that's how I moved into playing poker full time”. This was just the beginning of his success. Cloutier's favorite games - no-limit. The main word in this phrase is "no limit": "This doesn’t mean just no-limit hold’em; it also includes no-limit deuce-to-seven and no-limit draw. You don’t need a hand to win in those games — but it sure does help."


  Cloutier's Big List Of Wins


1) 1985 – NL Holdem – 2nd

2) 1987 – Limit Omaha – 1st

3) 1988 – NL Holdem – 5th

4) 1989 – PL Omaha – 2nd

5) 1989 – PL Omaha – 6th

6) 1992 – PL Holdem – 8th

7) 1992 – Limit Holdem – 7th

8) 1993 – PL Holdem – 9th

9) 1993 – Deuce to Seven Draw – 3rd

10) 1994 – Omaha 8 or Better – 1st

11) 1994 – PL Holdem – 1st12) 1995 – Seven-Card Stud – 2nd

13) 1996 – PL Omaha – 5th

14) 1996 – Limit Holdem – 7th

15) 1996 – Seven-Card Stud – 4th

16) 1996 – Limit Holdem – 8th

17) 1997 – NL Holdem – 24th

18) 1997 – NL Holdem – 11th

19) 1997 – Seven-Card Stud – 8th

20) 1998 – Omaha 8 or Better – 5th

21) 1998 – PL Omaha – 1st

22) 1998 – NL Holdem – 3rd

23) 1998 – Limit Holdem – 9th

24) 1999 – PL Omaha – 4th

25) 2000 – Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split – 10th

26) 2000 – PL Holdem – 7th

27) 2000 – NL Holdem – 2nd

28) 2001 – NL Holdem – 2nd

29) 2001 - Omaha Hi-Lo Split – 8th

30) 2002 – Limit Holdem – 6th

31) 2002 – NL Holdem – 3rd

32) 2002 – Limit Holdem – 17th

34) 2003 – Seven-Card Stud – 3rd

35) 2003 – NL Hodem – 5th

36) 2004 – PL Holdem – 29th

37) 2004 – PL Holdem – 15th

38) 2004 – Seven-Card Razz – 1st

39) 2004 – Limit Holdem – 9th