The Clown In Space - Guy Laliberté Takes Poker To The Sky
- Filed under: Guy Laliberte, Uncategorized
- Date: Oct 1,2009
World famous Cirque du Soleil founder and a high stakes poker gambler Guy Laliberté heads to the sky.
The biggest high stakes donator of the past years, Guy Laliberté, wanted to be the first clown in space. Now his dream has come true as he is heading towards ISS (International Space Station). His 12-day trip didn’t come cheap as the ticket to space cost him about twenty million euros.
Laliberté doesn’t need to travel alone as he is accompanied by the US astronaut Jeffrey Williams and the Russian cosmonaut Alexei Surajev.
Between 2007 and 2008 Guy Laliberté has lost approximately 25 million dollars in the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker. Then again, for a billionaire a sum like that is a small price to pay for a nice hobby.
Time will tell if other high stakes players will head after him to ISS or will Guy lose his fortune playing Chinese poker with the space station crew.
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