Guy Laliberté, the man behind the One Drop Foundation, has had tough times at the poker tables, both live and online (according to a Swedish poker site, he has lost around $20 million playing online poker alone.)
Apart from his poker losses, he is one heck of a businessman. In 1984, Laliberté started Cirque du Soleil with a fellow street performer. The show was an instant success an[...] Read more » Guy Laliberté To Sell His Company For $1.5 Billion
Joined: Mar '11
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This is a mind boggling amount of money and his losses at the poker tables pales into insignificance compared to what he gets for this sale. I bet the high stakes sharks are circling already!!
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guy was the reason many online players turned pro and rich that must not feel good but still he is successful buisnessman .. he was able to make billions and also thanks to him we were able to see the biggest tournaments in the history of poker he is a good dude , he does lot of charities but he is not great poker player even he kept losing he still plays .. which means he loves poker
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This guy, for many is a crazy one, for other is a good man, for me is just a men that from nothing get rich, building one company and, from that he try to help charities and things that he love grow up and be seen diferently, like poker. If he sell her crow jewellery, its because he have other thing in mind to make more money, or just are tired and want to stop and just dedicate to is passion, poker or life
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Hmm nice 1.5 b for some lifework cool, but i hate those sharks waiting for it to happens and the trying to play him to make him lose, well this is the rule of the jungle always attack the weak anyway hope he get this money and keep it safe and use the money wisely like invest to get passive income and all! I would have gone for the passive income route and i hope he is not stupid enough to lose all money he had gotten when he sold his company!
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For as long as I have seen him play poker he has always been a losing player but I don't think losing a couple of million is any big deal to him and if he has invested his money well then I don't think he will ever be destitute because of his poker playing.
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The sale of his company have nothing to do with pokeer lost. He was sole owner of the circle and not one of his children were interested in continuying in the business. After 30 years in the businesss he said that it was the time to have other peoples to look at it and bring the circle to another level.
For this much of a money he should be able to hire some proper coaches to help him loose less when he is at the tables. Nice to be a degenerate gambling addict when your bank account could back up your losses even into seven digits... Poor fellow.
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Well this is a s**t load of money he has and he is going to use them wisely and get a lot of money selling his company, should be a good decision as he loses too much money to be able to play, anyway hope he has a plan for that amount of money, should invest in passive income and just enjoy interests for the rest of his life lol, anyway keep posting these news always good to watch and so on, anyway peace out going out now and resting too tired after work lol!
Posted by Heskor: Well this is a s**t load of money he has and he is going to use them wisely and get a lot of money selling his company, should be a good decision as he loses too much money to be able to play...
Not really sure what you read in the article above, but I think he will find a way to spend this money on gambling too, judging his previous benders with poker...
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I can understand that losing $20 million is nothing to this Guy (pun intended ) - He claims he enjoys the game, and the money isn't important.
I totally agree with that. Once you have amassed a certain amount of money, it isn't important any more. Win or lose 20, or even 100 million, and his life doesn't change one bit.
What I don't get AT ALL... Is why you would continue to play something over many years, that you are really bad at. How can you enjoy something that you're awful at? I wouldn't play a computer game where I kept dying on the first level over and over again...
To me, the satisfaction in poker is improving. And knowing you're improving. The money comes with improvement, so is not an issue. Play to get better, play to learn....
I'd be happy to coach him for say.... $1,000 per hour
He might not be that bad at poker actually, but I can see him try to bluff his way out of situations where he should've just fold and boom - once somebody have a good read on you then your game will suffer. The millionaires suffering is in millions I guess.