Originally Posted by RI Tony

Too much garbage here to respond to. Feels like I'm talking to the wall. You people are so brain dead. My initial response was in response to the first 90% of posts which were laughing at the guy. Hell, the title of the thread is LOL TJ. Essentially, people are ridiculing someone who is in dire straits. I made the analogy, and it was an exaggerated one, that these same people probably laugh at the dire straits that the people in Haiti are in. The obvious distinction is that the Haiti situation was beyond their control, and TJ could have had some control of his outcome.

Which brings me to the gambling as a disease argument. I agree that accountability in today's society is a big problem. People always want to blame something/one else for their shortfalls. However, I also believe gambling addiction is a disease. That is why there is GA. And if any of you professional gamblers don't think you have a problem, try tearing yourself away from the computer screen or the casino for a month and see what happens.

Lastly, as for the MJ/Brittany comments, I don't think any of us has ever had a camera shoved in our faces and had our entire personal life on display for the whole world to see and analyze since we were the age of 5. Just like with Tiger (in response to yet another post), today's media loves to pump up unknowns and make them celebrities, put them on a pedestal, feed off their celebrity in terms of ratings and subscriptions, then tear them down off that pedestal, again to maintain their particular self-serving interests. How would you like to walk out to your car everyday having to fight past paparazzi? Christ, Tiger is trying to better himself, save a marriage/ his career, and yet he can't go to a clinic without being photographed having a coffee walking from one building to the next, and having the photos splashed on the front page of newspapers worldwide. How would you like that? Money isn't everything, and, yes I feel sympathy for these people.

I agree with a previous poster who said that people like to bash others because it makes their lives look better. Take a look in the mirror, people.

Exactly, so why are you coming in here and telling people that they should not LOL. And making judgment calls about our character just because we are laughing. This is isn't a " is Poker A Disease"-thread. So stfu. You seem like you are just...getting so just,,, worked up that you could just,,,, cry aaawwwww Now i feel sorry for you feeling sorry for anybody who made a bad choice awww. Sincerly i do. <3

I dont think he's divorced or broke. He sat on my right just yesterday in the $60 buyin at Winstar and when he busted out his wife was waiting on him.......

i saw TJ last year at Borgata...dude is a big man...his wife was standing behind him...he was playin craps.

TJ Cookier > TJ Cloutier

Love how all of you can bash this man after what hes done for the game of poker as a whole.

 

Originally Posted by Werglum

I don't think it's that bad to purchase a wsop bracelet as a collectible but wearing it to a tourny is just pathetic.

I sooooooo disagree. Wearing TJs bracelet to EVERY tourney you play would be just plain awesome, especially come the day you're sitting at a table with him.
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