TJ Cloutier's selling his 2005 WSOP Bracelette

Ive heard Ivey at a WPT event say he has to finish at least 2nd just to break even for the trip. Also heard Matusow say he lost his 1,000,000 first place prize money from the tournament of champions in the next 3 days. So yes they do have there vices.

He came from a time where you played poker purely for the money.

Doyle Brunson didnt even pick up some of the bracelets he won back in the day.

While he is probably in money trouble, I also think that him not caring about the bracelet is feasible.

So why even play? lol
Where do you fit in on the scale?
I think I'd keep my kids away from folks with a narrow-minded view on things.
I like your perception of why poker players put out poker books. So do ya figure Phil Gordon wrote his series of books cuz he was hurting for money? How about Dan Harrinton... same thing for him was it? What about Sklansky... no desire to share info. with others....
I've never personally met a writer who didn't have a passion for writing. I'm sure there's some.. ie. "poker for dummies".. "how to make $30K playing sng's online".. etc. BUT with the 50+ poker books I've read, I'd safely assume that with 90% of them, the writer's objective wasn't merely greed-based and all about the mighty dollar (&/or because they were hurting from being a gambler).

Sounds to me like he should stay away from the craps table and stick to poker.

The bracelet was bought by Cake Poker.

Is it possible that he may have lost it playing poker? I can completely see some guy challenging him decent bucks against his bracelet, and getting lucky.

i have won lots of tropheys playing pool. when i first won them it was cool now i could care lees anbout a trophy just give me the money. i would imagine thats how he feels.

I'm sure he didn't carry it around with him 24/7

Why would someone challenge him for his braclet and the pawn it? Surely if he was challenged for his bracelet then the person who challenged him wanted the bracelet not the opportunity to pawn the bracelet.

The announcement made by Cake Poker said that they intend to enjoy their new purchase before handing it back to its prestigious owner professional poker player TJ Cloutier. “As much as we would love to have a WSOP bracelet, or even award it to one of our cherished poker players, we can’t, in good conscience, keep it from the man who rightfully won it; which is why we’ve decided to return it to TJ Cloutier… just as soon as we’re done having some fun with it…there will be no sacrilegious treatment of the artifact.” was written on the site's blog.

heres the link

http://cakepoker.com/blog/En/post/Ye...-Bracelet.aspx

he is just gonna sell it atgan anyways...there is a reason why he put it up the first time

I was thinking about that.

Cake may well get him to sign a contract specifying the penalties involved should he do so.

In effect he may become the custodian of cake pokers property.

Otherwise it could happen again.