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Nope - absolutely nothing to do with golf - just a very cool story.

Guy Laliberte, one of the founders of Cirque du Soleil, bought a ticket on the latest Russian rocket to the space station and will be spending 9 days with 8 other astro and cosmo nauts.

The price tag ? A measly $35 million...but Laliberte is worth well over a billion dollars, so he won't be sleeping in a Motel 6 anytime soon...unless he just happens to buy one while travelling.

If you're a poker fan and get the Game Show Network, you might recognize Laliberte from the fourth season of High Stakes Poker. The million dollar minimum buy in season.

This is one guy I would really like to meet some day. He seems to truly love the Cirque (he started off as a fire eater and stilt walker), and doesn't mind putting his money in places where people really need it.

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$35m to him is like

$11.83 to us. Is he any good at poker?

...from the land of pleasant living, Baltimore.

by One-Eyed Golfer Guy on Oct 11, 2009 1:03 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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