Guy Laliberté nicest man on earth?

4Aces · Nov 27, 2007

WOW

YouTube - Guy and Benyamine in a $1.2 million pot High Stakes Poker 4

vanquish · Nov 27, 2007

the guy is not a poker player....

Aalgaard · Nov 27, 2007

wow, that is pretty amazing

skoldpadda · Nov 28, 2007

wow how did that guy get that before it's been aired?!!

royalburrito24 · Nov 28, 2007

were there 2 episodes yesterday?

and its lauberte i believe

royalburrito24 · Nov 28, 2007

royalburrito24 said:
were there 2 episodes yesterday?

and its lauberte i believe

anyone? anyone?

ChuckTs · Nov 28, 2007

cirque du soleil owner, 600k = nothing to him.

Gotta love Doyle too

skoldpadda · Nov 28, 2007

Laliberte (French for "liberty") is how it's spelled.

He's a billionaire as Chuck said: Guy Laliberte, The World's Richest People - Forbes.com

There was only 1 episode -- this is from next week's show. That is what prompted my question above burrito.

beardyian · Nov 28, 2007

As i remember hearing from a previous show he is listed in Forbes magazine at joint 634th riches, level with Oprah Winfrey.

momoney2 · Dec 22, 2007

There is no room for nice in poker. Take all the money. Why else play?
At least run it 2 or 3 times to reduce the variance, but don't just end the hand with both of them all-in and no Turn or River.
I wrote a post on this, GSN's $500K High Stakes Poker - a little soft ,https://www.cardschat.com/forum/general-poker-13/gsn-s-500k-high-stakes-poker-little-soft-100369/.
I want to see blood on the felt!

zidane10 · Dec 25, 2007

What a nice guy. But I agree with "momoney2" that there is no room for niceness in poker. High Stakes isn't even fun to watch sometimes when they run it 4 times or completely call it a tie like in that hand. That's not poker!

N.D. · Dec 25, 2007

I didn't know it was okay to grave rob. Maybe I'd have started fewer new threads if I did...

Yeah weird video. I dunno though, it's his money, he can do what he wants with it. Maybe it was a French connection or something, whatever.

peterswellman · Dec 28, 2007

It's not like he ended up making a loss anyway. He still got iirc 60k off Benyamine. Funny first when Guy suggested they just run it once, Benyamine looked like that belly of his was going to come out of his mouth.

worditst · Dec 30, 2007

I think I would be too greedy to even do that.. =(

Qwikls1 · Jan 10, 2008

Guy said in that episode that he had a premonition/bad feeling about the hand.

Even though he was a favorite, he was worried about losing.

Not "worried" in what losing the money would mean, but worried about his "ego"? (dunno if that's the right term, but it's all I can think of at the moment).

the lab man · Jan 11, 2008

Guy is a new poker player (2 years) but has done quite well in his short time .He is coached by Isabell (No mercy) Mercier a great player from Canada.

Last fall he made a final table of a wpt event and finished 5th I think.

He occasionally plays in some hi stakes poker games in Vegas and does well . Biggest plus for him .....he never plays with scared money and its a huge advantage to his game....Wish we could all play that way

IMHO give him some well deserved respect.

alan1983 · Jan 11, 2008

He said hed donate half his winnings at that table to charity. I think itd been better to win and give it to these kids than leave it for Benyamine. Then hedve been a really good guy.

I think it ruins the whole point of the game. If he wants to be mr billionaire nice guy to them, why play...just give them your money.

cambovenzi · Jan 28, 2008

seriously there should be no feeling bad for these guys.
they are all rich out of their minds.
if you cant afford to play a hand that big, don't sign up for high stakes.

mafalda34 · Feb 11, 2008

Yeah that guy just want to entertain himself, he doesnt care at all about the money. Doyle Brunson on his blog a few days ago wrote that Guy bought 2 Bugati Veyron (the most expensive car on the planet 1.4million$ each)

And also he wins about 2 million every night because the circus... i mean while most of the other players where playing above their limits he was just gambling and having some fun.

shinedown.45 · Feb 11, 2008

For all the reasons stated above is the main reason I don't watch HSP.....tooo soft.
If you're gonna play poker, PLAY poker, this is not a business deal.

4Aces · Feb 11, 2008

shinedown.45 said:
For all the reasons stated above is the main reason I don't watch HSP.....tooo soft.
If you're gonna play poker, PLAY poker, this is not a business deal.

I agree, they should definitely drop the buyin for the next HSP, although I have heard rumours that the buyin might be increased to 1 million. That would be really boring, If they ever did get all the money in on the flop for 2 million they would run it like 10 times, lol.

Rweik · Feb 22, 2008

Momoney hit it right on the head. No blood, no mercy. This is a winning mans game. Losing is for the weak hearted.

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