Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics

[Poker monkey]

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On being released from hospital Phil inquired if I would be interested in going into an import/export business with him involving Thai antiques being sent to New York.

I agreed against my better judgment and went to New York to take a look at the shop he was going to open.

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Hmm, why would you need to go to from Thailand to New York to look at an unopened shop?

And if all this is true, and Phil had gone to the trouble of leasing a shop, I can't imagine he'd abandon the whole enterprise just because of problems with one supplier. Where is this shop and what's it called?