Ted Forrest

Best game: Any form of seven-card stud
Weakness: Invests in losing players and failing businesses

Most people consider him to be a stud specialist, but he did win a WSOP bracelet in no-limit hold'em against a field of over 800 players. Ted is a very tricky player and is known for making great reads. If you want to know how it feels to be in the eye of a hurricane, play short-handed seven-card stud eight-or-better with Ted.

Thomas James (T.J.) Cloutier

Aggressiveness: 6
Looseness: 5
Short-handed: 6
Limit: 5
No-limit: 7
Tournaments: 7
Side games: 3
Steam control: 4
Against weak players: 8
Against strong players: 6

Best game: Tournament no-limit hold'em
Weakness: A seven on the craps table at the wrong time

Conventional wisdom is that T. J.'s non-poker gambling has limited his monetary success.

T.J. often shows his good hands because he likes to give the image that he is always there. His philosophy is: if you never get called, you will end up with all of the chips.

T.J. has probably played in and won more major tournaments than any other person.

Amusing anecdote:

When T.J and I first played together, we had discussed how I had played some no-limit hold'em in Houston in the ‘70s whereas he had played in Dallas. I moved in on someone with Ace-King. The player called with a pair of Queens and I won the race.

T.J. said, “I can see you learned to play in Houston. Those Houston players would come to Dallas and play that Ace-King, but they'd always end up against a pair of Aces. That's why we call that hand ‘Walking back to Houston.'”