Guy Laliberte, billionaire owner of Cirque du Soleil and creator/backer of the WSOP One Drop event, is finally speaking out about his staggering losses on Full Tilt.

Laliberte makes the following claims:

- Pros were colluding against him in the games.

- Pros had an unlimited virtual bankroll, because they could keep reloading with phantom Full Tilt money, while Laliberte could only play with money he had loaded online.


Laliberte's quotes (translated from French) were as follows:

I should have remembered that I am a dinosaur compared to this (the internet).

The story of Full Tilt is clear: I got scammed, squarely, by people I knew personally who used unlimited bank, paying no money.

It's easy to go all-in all the time, when it's not your own money, and they printed money to play against me, and they put two, three ... I was stupid.
The French article is here: http://www.journaldemontreal.com/201...tenir-le-mythe

He was aiming these statements at high-ranking Full Tilt Red Pros, rather than other pro players who played against him on the site.

Haralabob Voulgaris, who played in many of those games against Guy, said that he is simply a sore loser.

Quote Originally Posted by Haralabob Voulgaris
Guy basically was a huge loser the first week he started playing FTP, these guys weren’t playing with imaginary limitless money, they were playing for the most part with Guy’s money, and his opponents bankrolls kept on going up and up the more he played.
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Guy never even really had any upswings when playing live or online, the gap between him and the players he was playing against was that big… he was drawing dead.
I believe this.

I also think it's possible that the pros basically dodged big confrontations with each other, and simply waited for big hands against Guy.

Furthermore, it is possible that Full Tilt Red Pros had an agreement that they would withdraw nearly unlimited company money to play against Guy, and perhaps split the profits, knowing the high likelihood that they would clobber him overall. I have no evidence of this, though.

Guy also offered no evidence that he was colluded against, and did not name any names.

Haralabob did concede that it was likely that Guy's contact at Full Tilt -- the one who helped him deposit large amount of money there -- alerted his friends that Guy would likely be coming to the tables soon, so they were waiting and ready to play against him.