Winning a World Series of Poker bracelet is one of the biggest achievements that a poker player can earn during their career. And pro poker player T.J. Cloutier has been lucky enough to win 6 of them during his career. However, he is only holding five of them after an unidentified person bought one of the bracelets off of Cloutier recently.
The seller has a gold bracelet from the 2005 WSOP listed on eBay, and is claiming that it’s the same one T.J. Cloutier won in a $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament. A description for the item also mentions that it has 13 round-cut diamonds and is made out of 14K gold. The auction ends on January 24th and the bidding starts at $2,999; so far, nobody has made a bid yet.
The fact that Cloutier was willing to part ways with the bracelet raises more speculation about his previous money problems. T.J. is known to gamble in casinos quite frequently, and is especially fond of the craps tables. Cloutier is also backed in many the tournaments that he plays in despite being ranked 10th on the all-time poker winnings list with $9,787,199. Cloutier is also ranked 16th on the all-time WSOP winnings list with $4,322,186.
In addition to the WSOP bracelet he won in the 2005 $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament, Cloutier has also captured bracelets in the 1987 Limit Omaha, 1994 $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, 1994 $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em, 1998 $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha, and 2004 $1,500 Seven Card Razz events.
Cloutier has also finished in the top 5 in four different WSOP Main Events; he placed 2nd in both the 1985 and the 2000 Main Events. Recently though, Cloutier has had a string of bad luck at the WSOP since he has only cashed once in the last two years.
