Guy Laliberté's Million-Dollar Online Poker Losses and Controversies

Guy Laliberté's online poker career was marked by both significant achievements and substantial losses. He played the most expensive limits on Full Tilt and took fourth place in the WPT Championship. In the fourth season of High Stakes Poker, a special game was organized for Laliberté with a buy-in of $500k.

Laliberté played 77 hands on High Stakes Poker with VPIP/PFR statistics of 61/8 and won $188,950. In his largest hand, he allowed David Benjamin to take approximately $500,000 from the pot and lost a huge pot to Doyle Brunson. In 2012, Laliberté participated in the first $1,000,000 tournament at the World Series and made it into the money.

Despite these achievements, Laliberté's online poker career was plagued by significant losses. He lost $31 million over his online poker career and described online poker as the most foolish expenditure of money in his life. After Black Friday, Laliberté stated that he did not deposit any money into online poker. Mike Matousov admitted in a 2011 interview that professionals sometimes collaborated against Laliberté, but Haralabos Vulgaris criticized the notion that players colluded against him.