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Originally Posted by BlackEleven
I'm not talking about Chris Moneymaker. I know who he is. This is a different story. The guy was a magazine writer and he decided to write an article on the World Series of Poker. He thought entering it would be the best way to write about it, so he entered without ever having played in a tournament before and finished in the top 10 (I don't remember exactly where). He took out TJ Cloutier (called his bluff) on his way to the final table. This was back in the 70s I believe, before poker was hugely popular.
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I think you're referring to the autobiographical story told in
Positively Fifth Street by James McManus... though his story is not about the WSOP in the 70's (there were fewer than 100 entrants in any year of the WSOP in the 70's), but was actually the year 2000, and he was hired to write an article about the WSOP. He used his advance money from
Harpers to enter the tournament. He was an amateur who had not played formal tournament poker. His advance money from
Harpers was only $4K (which included expenses), and he needed $10K, so he played some satellites and won entry into the tournament. In the satellites, he defeated Hasan Habib and Amir Vahedi - no small accompishment.
He came in 5th of about 600 entrants in the main event of the WSOP in the year 2000 (yes the tourney was that small then), and was at the final table with TJ Cloutier. However TJ came in 2nd that year, losing to Chris Ferguson (IIRC).
By the way, Cloutier tends not to bluff. If you have any example of a major hand at a final table lost by TJ Cloutier on a "bluff", please send me the reference. He's one of the sharpest players of all time and plays the odds extremely well. He might semi-bluff at a final table but I doubt he'd even try to pull a complete bluff.
Cloutier has been at the final table in the main event about 4 or 5 times, and has never been bested by an author, to my knowledge, so that's why I think you're referring to McManus, which is the closest to your story that I can recall.
Good book, by the way, though it rambles (like this post of mine) from time to time.