Billionaire Bill Gates landed in a small city in Wyoming on Monday for a ribbon chopping ceremony after which dropped in on a private poker game.
The Microsoft co-founder is among the traders in a $4 billion nuclear reactor challenge deliberate for Kemmerer, a city of simply over 2,400 folks within the southwest portion of the state.
“After all the groundbreaking-with-a-shovel poses with dignitaries from the billionaire Warren Buffett-owned PacifiCorp, with Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon and TerraPower LLC, one of the richest men in the world headed over to a local fossil store to play a private game of Texas hold’em poker with a few ‘regular people,’” the Cowboy State Daily reported.
Poker And Power Plants
Gates, who owns TerraPower, mentioned the challenge has been a dream of his since 2005 and he was happy to see it lastly come to fruition.
“It’s important for the future of this country that projects like this succeed,” Gates mentioned. “This is a big step toward safe, abundant, zero-carbon energy.”
About 300 folks attended the ceremony. After, Gates hit the cardboard desk with some locals as a part of the itinerary, shopping for in with everybody else on the desk for $30.
“To have someone of his stature sit down with local people and talk with us shows that he really cares about us,” Wyoming Fossils co-owner Robert Bowen mentioned. “We’re honored he considered to be part of our community, and sit down with us. He’s a very down-to-earth man.”
Gates has been identified to play poker every so often by means of the years. In a 2002 Harvard Crimson article, pals commented on his time on the college together with some common card video games. According to pals, “his mathematical ability did not always translate into winning hands,” the Crimson famous.
The sport normally featured six gamers all shopping for in for about $100. Friends reported that he completed within the crimson usually and was an average player.
“He was known to be an aggressive player,” buddy C. Greg Nelson informed the Crimson. “But in the crowd at Currier House where we played, he was about the median — definitely not in the top quartile.”
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