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Originally Posted by Reggie Steer
https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=51
TJ probably has the sickest Hendon Mob in history with as many as 18 cashes as recent as 2018. That was his last totally active year and he bought in from $200 to $1600. He was 78 years old then.
He obviously has had weaknesses outside poker. Many players do. But when it comes to just poker tournaments, the guy might be the GOAT. Second in the Main Event (thanks to a bad beat) in 2000. Third in 1998. Last table in 1995. He won back to back to back of the main event in a tournament called Diamond Jim Brady which had a buy in of 5k back in the 80s.
Possibly the tourney GOAT.
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 type of event for decades. This is not some massive fall from grace like EastCoastBalla thinks, it's just what Cookier has done for the entirety of his recorded tourney history.
Also...
TJ: "I wake up every day with a new attitude. Yesterday's gone, so I'm not gonna worry about yesterday, just go on to the next day. How can anybody who has won $11 million in poker and lost about $3 million in craps worry about what happened yesterday?"
Gavin Smith: "Okay, I'll take slightly the under and way the over."
[PokerRoad Radio, March 1, 2008]
Last edited by Wilbury Twist; 06-11-2022 at 05:02 AM.