I would like to take as my text today a bit of wisdom from TJ Cloutier, whose book on tournament no-limit hold’em was the first poker strategy book I ever read. It came, though, not from that book, but from what I believe was his only appearance on the NBC television show, Poker After Dark. This was from Season 2, a show first broadcast in September 2007.
It requires a bit of set-up:
In the last hand of the previous episode, the one-table tournament was down to four players.