Apparently Warren Buffett and Berkshire subsidiary NetJets host an exclusive poker game for high rollers. Here is the inside scoop:
Warren Buffett is a famously world-class bridge player, putting in 12 hours a week at the table, often with Bill Gates, and sponsoring the Buffett Cup, which mimics golf’s Ryder Cup, except with cards. “Every hand fascinates me,” he recently told me, in explaining this obsession. But relatively quietly, over the past seven years he’s emerged as the host of one of the planet’s most exclusive poker games.
While the World Series of Poker Main Event remains the most famous and prestigious tournament, a ten-day-long bacchanal that satisfies ESPN’s late-night programming needs for months, it’s also open to anyone with $10,000 and a dream. The NetJets Poker Invitational, run byBerkshire Hathaway‘s private-jet subsidiary, has a much steeper hurdle: Players must be a NetJets fractional owner (minimum cost: $200,000), with a select few heavy Marquis Jet Card owners sprinkled in.
Link to entire article: _ http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2012/08/27/inside-warren-buffetts-private-poker-game/
Warren Buffett is a famously world-class bridge player, putting in 12 hours a week at the table, often with Bill Gates, and sponsoring the Buffett Cup, which mimics golf’s Ryder Cup, except with cards. “Every hand fascinates me,” he recently told me, in explaining this obsession. But relatively quietly, over the past seven years he’s emerged as the host of one of the planet’s most exclusive poker games.
While the World Series of Poker Main Event remains the most famous and prestigious tournament, a ten-day-long bacchanal that satisfies ESPN’s late-night programming needs for months, it’s also open to anyone with $10,000 and a dream. The NetJets Poker Invitational, run byBerkshire Hathaway‘s private-jet subsidiary, has a much steeper hurdle: Players must be a NetJets fractional owner (minimum cost: $200,000), with a select few heavy Marquis Jet Card owners sprinkled in.
Link to entire article: _ http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2012/08/27/inside-warren-buffetts-private-poker-game/
