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Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics
#11505928 - 08/02/07 07:28 PM

I don't know whether this is true or not but here's a story that another 2+2er told me:

During the WSOP I'm playing poker at the Gold Coast cause I'm a baller (they spread $1/$2 NL and up to $4/$8 Limit); talking to a guy about interviewing some players that day and another guy asks me..."are you a journalist?"

"Sorta", I say.

He says, "Do you know where I could find Phil Laak?"

I'm like, "you should check out the Poker Expo at the Rio, he's one of the spokesmen for some heads up bar game"

Then he says, "Do you want to hear a story about him?"

I say, "Ok..".

He says, "Phil Laak, that man is a scumbag, if you want to hear the story let me know and we'll go have coffee".

I'm thinking this will be some angle shoot story at the poker table. So we go to get coffee and this guy tells me a crazy story about how Phil was in Thailand and ran into some trouble, and the guy helps him out. Later Phil decides to start a business and this guy hooks him up with some people. The whole deal gets messed up and Phil gets bilked out of some money.

Then the guy says that Phil tried to hire a friend of his to kill him...

I'm thinking this story is pretty nuts.

I'm pretty drunk and agree to go to Expo show the next day and take a pic of this guy and Phil.

So the next day rolls around and I meet up with the guy at the expo show, and sure enough Phil is there signing an autograph and getting his picture taken. I didn't notice her at the time but Tilly is there too. So I go and stand near them and start snapping pics.

This guy sidles up to Phil and says, "Phil I think we need to Talk" (he's the guy on Phil's right).

Phil Grabs Tilly by the arm and basically runs away from this guy and out an employee exit...so I'm thinking...that's pretty strange.

Then the guy asks me to publish the story, and I tell him he should really look into getting a Real investigative journalist to do it.

So, I email the pics to the guy and he says that he's going to start a website about Phil; sure enough he did.

The Whole Phil Story

Pretty crazy if true. Not sure if the guy was trying to extort money from Phil or what...

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Riina
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Re: Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics [Re: 80000]
#11506045 - 08/02/07 07:37 PM

of course there need to be more sources who verify all of the alledged happenings that supposedly took place ....but uhmmm..wow wtf?

....seems like too crazy a story to be totally made up, however we live on a retarded planet so who knows...NVG worthy no doubt though

edit: by the way, he doesn't really help his case by including the last accusation about both laak and esfandiari. Even if everything he told about thailand was true as a whole it gets a little sketchy if he blatantly accuses phil laak and esfandiari of something totally unrelated and seemingly farfetched as fact.

Edited by Riina (08/02/07 07:51 PM)

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bustedromo
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Re: Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics [Re: 80000]
#11506050 - 08/02/07 07:37 PM

Someone should save that website because soon I'm sure Laak will get a court to take it down and even the google archives destroyed.

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Re: Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics [Re: 80000]
#11506062 - 08/02/07 07:38 PM

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Re: Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics [Re: bustedromo]
#11506127 - 08/02/07 07:42 PM

lol phillaakhomicidaments

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Re: Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics [Re: please.muck]
#11506184 - 08/02/07 07:47 PM

what an absolute joke of a story

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TheJokerIsWild
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Re: Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics [Re: please.muck]
#11506215 - 08/02/07 07:50 PM

A++

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Re: Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics [Re: havewemetbefore]
#11506229 - 08/02/07 07:51 PM

Crazy story funny that he is sharing so many pics and doesnt have one of phil in thailand..

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Re: Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics [Re: havewemetbefore]
#11506262 - 08/02/07 07:53 PM

if its true, why dont you just post the proof you have for this?

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Re: Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics [Re: havewemetbefore]
#11506295 - 08/02/07 07:56 PM

this is [censored] right?

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