Guy Laliberté nicest man on earth?

#1 27th November 2007, 8:54 PM

WOW

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

#2 27th November 2007, 9:11 PM

the guy is not a poker player....

#3 28th November 2007, 3:44 AM

wow, that is pretty amazing

#4 28th November 2007, 5:09 AM

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

#5 28th November 2007, 5:12 AM

were there 2 episodes yesterday?

and its lauberte i believe

#6 28th November 2007, 5:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by royalburrito24

were there 2 episodes yesterday?

and its lauberte i believe

anyone? anyone?

#7 28th November 2007, 6:15 AM

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

Gotta love Doyle too

#8 28th November 2007, 11:40 PM

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.

#9 28th November 2007, 11:51 PM

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

#10 22nd December 2007, 10:19 PM

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 ,http://www.cardschat.com/f13/gsn-s-5...e-soft-100369/.
I want to see blood on the felt!

#11 25th December 2007, 4:09 PM

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!

#12 25th December 2007, 4:24 PM

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.

#13 28th December 2007, 8:00 PM

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.

#14 30th December 2007, 7:42 AM

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

#15 11th January 2008, 4:48 AM

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).

#16 11th January 2008, 5:28 AM

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.

#17 11th January 2008, 12:05 PM

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.

#18 28th January 2008, 8:07 AM

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.

#19 11th February 2008, 11:24 AM

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.

#20 11th February 2008, 11:45 AM

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.

#21 11th February 2008, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shinedown.45

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.

#22 22nd February 2008, 6:10 PM

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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