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Cirque Du Soleil : 20 Years Under the Sun
by Tony Babinski
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It's hard to imagine that a company known for its amazing acrobatics and pyrotechnics started out as a loose band of stilt-walkers and fire-breathers, but this elaborate retrospective has the pictures to prove it, as well as interviews offering insight into the exotic world under the big top. The book traces Cirque du Soleil's history in almost excessive detail; the first section, in particular, is an exhaustive record of all the work it took to get the project going.

Cirque du Soleil Founder in Final Six at WPT Poker Championship

Monday, April 30, 2007
LAS VEGAS -- As reported by BodogBeat: He’s the richest man in Canada, a billionaire businessman and the co-founder of "Cirque du Soleil," and today he is one of the final six pokerGuy Laliberte will add to his billions with his good finish at the WPT World Championships.
Guy Laliberte will add to his billions with his good finish at the WPT World Championships.
  players left competing for the $3.97 million first prize at the WPT World Championship.  In only his third tournament after picking up the game 16 months ago, Guy Laliberté has shown at the poker tables this week the same focus he’s used to develop his Cirque entertainment empire, outlasting more than 630 poker players to begin play today at the TV final table with the third most poker chips ($4,690,000).
Laliberté, 47, started with cash games at the Bellagio and got to know some of the high-stakes players who frequent the poker room and learned by watching them play. He took that knowledge and entered a $2,500 super-satellite at the Bellagio earlier this month to win his seat into the WPT World Championship.
Now, after playing through a tough 639 person field, Laliberte still has an uphill climb if he hopes to take home first place against a table of accomplished poker pros, including experienced tournament player Paul Lee, who took his Day 4 chip lead and parlayed it into a dominating lead after Day 5. Lee now holds more than a third of the chips in play at $11.83 million.
Sitting approximately 5 million chips behind him in second place is Carlos "The Matador" Mortensen ($6.5 million), who is looking to become the first player to ever win both the WSOP Main Event (in 2001) and the WPT World Championship.
Here are the full chip counts with the rest of the final table:
1. Paul Lee - $11,828,000
2. Carlos Mortensen - $6,501,000
3. Guy Laliberte - $4,690,000
4. Kirk Morrison - $4,194,000
5. Mike Wattel - $2,887,000
6. Tim Phan - $2,162,000
The final table will begin at 5pm PST today and will go until the winner is awarded the $3.97 million first-place prize.
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