POKER CHOCTAW KICKS OFF

The World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw had a total of 947 participants. The first qualifying day that has already ended had 647 players on Day 1A and had 300 players on Day 1B. The event went on for 14 hours with action packed play and finally ended with 498 survivors qualifying for the second day of competition. The rank of a chip-leader went to Chris Tiller. Tiller has a secure position for the rest of the competition with a stack of 167,500 chips. La Sengphet held the second position with 144,000 chips.

The day1 saw the early elimination of some of the prominent professional poker players. To name a few of them are Gavin Smith, Todd Brunson and Ylon Schwartz. Along with TJ Coultier, some of the well known players who would be back at the Poker room for Day 2 would include James Van Aistyne, Tommy Vedes, Men Nguyen, Tom McEvoy, Scotty Nguyen, Roland Israel, Dennis Phillips, Layne Flack, Chad Brown, Kattamuri Raja and Drazen Illich. Huy Nguyen who was the champion of the series last year has participated in the tournament to defend his title this year and has qualified for the Day2.

Kattamuri Raja played an incredible game from the very beginning in the World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw, he has already won some attractive offers like two gold jewellery by picking the trophy for event 3, a No-limit Hold’em of $555 buy-in and event 3 and heads’Up No limit Hold’em. Raja Kattamuri has also succeeded to get the second place of the tournament Six Max No-Limit Hold’em with $345 and also the 6th place at the Pot-Limit Omaha tournament at $345.

Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament Season 1 episode 3 – 1/3

TJ Cloutier Online video Score: / 5

Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament Season 1 episode 2 – 2/3

TJ Cloutier Video Score: / five

Canadian Poker Championships Hands 34-37

TJ Cloutier Video clip Ranking: 3 / 5

Focus on: TJ Cloutier

TJ Cloutier is a Texas based poker player that was born in 1939. In 2006 he became part of the Hall of Fame of Poker.

TJ loves to play poker in tournaments and he specializes in it, mostly in Pot Limit and No Limit Hold’em. Currently, only he was able to win WSOP events of three different Omaha types (including Limit High and Pot Limit High). He has six bracelets from the World Series during his entire career, plus many other wins at all kinds of games of poker.

On four separate occasions he finished in top 5 at WSOP main event tables. On two occasions was actually runner-up. The first time was in 1985, when he was runner-up to Bill Smith and the second time was in 2000, when the winner was Chris Ferguson. The other two final table finishes were in 1988, when he finished 5^th, the winner being Johnny Chan, and in 1998, on 3^rd place, when the winner was Scotty Nguyen.

When it comes to the largest number of finishes at final tables during the World Series, Cloutier ranks second, with 39 presences, the first one being Phil Hellmuth, which has 41. He also has 55 finishes in the money at the World Series, which makes him rank on 5^th place in that category.

A player at WPT events, TJ also has a finish in 3^rd place during Legends of Poker 2003, which was won by Judah Mel.

The total winnings from live tournaments reached $9.7 million in 2009. Out of these, his World Series finishes in the money brought him $4,324,186.

The first bracelet won by TJ Cloutier came from the Limit Omaha Hi event during the 1987 WSOP. His prize was $72k. In 1994 he won another two bracelets and the prizes were $135k and $163k. The next three bracelets came in 1998, 2004 and 2005.

Poker After Dark Season 2 Episode 22 – World Series Legends – 1/3

TJ Cloutier Online video Rating: / 5