Guy Laliberte getting crushed online.

[diamond_06_06]

I was just reading on pokerbloggs.com the other day and came across an entry about Guy Laliberte and some of the biggest winners and loses recently playig high stakes online (for those who do not know Laliberte is the owner of Cirque du Soleil, and has appeared on High Stakes Poker).

Now I never really rated Laliberte againts the other players on HSP and believed he just ran really good not to spew all his money away. However he is apparently an absolute spewtard online. He plays under the username 'elmariachimacho' on full tilt and is down more than $4,000,000 over just 8,100 hands!!!!

About $1,700,000 of this is to Tom Dwan. Laliberte also rumouredly plays under the names 'patatino' and 'ladymarmelade' which are down $465,000 and $400,000 respectly this year to Dwan also.

But I guess when your worth about 1 point 2 bill, whats 5 or 6 mill a year spent on recreation.

Ahhh to be able to play in the nosebleed stakes.

 

[icemonkey9]

Someone get ChuckTs or Zachvac to those tables - STAT

 

[CAPT. ZIGZAG]

and is down more than $4,000,000 over just 8,100 hands!!!!

He earns that much in about, ummm...... 3 minutes.

It's like you and I dropping $0.45


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[jordanbillie]

The worst part is that he actually has a superuser account and still loses $4M!

 

[chuckgellasc]

The worst part is that he actually has a superuser account and still loses $4M!

not a superuser but multi accounter. ban hammer needed for Guy

 

[zachvac]

meh he's not that bad, not even losing $500/hand.

 

[BelgoSuisse]

meh he's not that bad, not even losing $500/hand.

Actually, I don't know if we'd do a lot better than that if we had to play against Ivey, Antonius, durrr and so on.

 

[ivantech]

screw it what does he care, but i wish he would send some of those losings my way.

 

[sd great 1]

he can't be so terrible or H.S.P. wouldn't invite him back, the players seem to give him respect as well. more than jamie gold at least.

 

[zachvac]

Actually, I don't know if we'd do a lot better than that if we had to play against Ivey, Antonius, durrr and so on.

Did you not notice the sarcasm? That said if we folded 100% of our hands we would only lose $250/hand at railhaven ($1500 every 6 hands) so we would be at least twice as good. Plus we could gain a bit of money from that by just open shoving AA from any position.

he can't be so terrible or H.S.P. wouldn't invite him back, the players seem to give him respect as well. more than jamie gold at least.

He's widely recognized as the donator in any game. They invite him back because he creates action, not because he's good. And as to respect, wouldn't you respect an atm?

 

[trojan87]

of course hes terrible and down millions at poker. guy has billions and fires lol. its likes one of us playing 5c10c nl lol. ivey takes money from the rich peeps that cant play a lick

 

[OzExorcist]

Re: Laliberte being on HSP, Zach has it. He's not on the show because he's good, he's on the show because without him it's a totally unattractive proposition for the pros to play on the show.

Pretty much every table on that show has a few players who are rich outside of poker and are mostly there to donate - Laliberte is obviously the only one who wanted to put up $500K at a time. Jerry Buss, Fred Shamanara (sp?), Mike Baxter and various others have fulfilled the same role on lower buy-in shows.

Aside from being a laugh, I'm pretty sure Laliberte also sees it as an opportunity to promote his charity on air.

 

[BillHall]

I like what Belgosuisse said above...

...I have a feeling that he is in over his head competition wise...how else to explain the big losses?

 

[PokerVic]

It's hard not to like Guy. Here's a guy doing what he enjoys, and having fun doing it. You only have to look at this hand for proof of that:

YouTube - 1.2 mil pot between Guy Laliberte and David Benyamine

Is he the best player ever? No. But neither am I.

 

[CAPT. ZIGZAG]

That's zakly wut I wus thinking about.

That was the coolest when he let David Benyamine off the hook.



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[skoldpadda]

I was just reading on pokerbloggs.com the other day and came across an entry about Guy Laliberte and some of the biggest winners and loses recently playig high stakes online (for those who do not know Laliberte is the owner of Cirque du Soleil, and has appeared on High Stakes Poker).

Now I never really rated Laliberte againts the other players on HSP and believed he just ran really good not to spew all his money away. However he is apparently an absolute spewtard online. He plays under the username 'elmariachimacho' on full tilt and is down more than $4,000,000 over just 8,100 hands!!!!

About $1,700,000 of this is to Tom Dwan. Laliberte also rumouredly plays under the names 'patatino' and 'ladymarmelade' which are down $465,000 and $400,000 respectly this year to Dwan also.

But I guess when your worth about 1 point 2 bill, whats 5 or 6 mill a year spent on recreation.

Ahhh to be able to play in the nosebleed stakes.

I watched it go down. It was very sick. One hand Guy was in the BB and 3 bet Durrrr preflop and Dwan smooth called. They both had over 200K (don't recall exact amount but believe final pot was about 500K). Flop was 356 and Guy led out and was raised. He pushed his KK only to be called by Dwan with 24.

 

[Aurelio H]

hes not a good player but he plays for entertainment so its like going to the movies for us hes having fun he doesn't car about the money hes enjoying himself.

 

[hacklimit]

Guy can afford to lose millions. Cirque de Soleli prints money for him!

 

[jordanbillie]

Great video, I can't believe he just let him off the hook like that. That is proof he is just playing for the entertainment.