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Old 02-16-2007, 10:13 PM
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Default 2nd hand story: Phil Laak $70k angle-shoot

I have no idea if any of this is true or not or if it's only partly accurate. Found it to be an interesting story.

It was told to me by some guy at the table at 2/5 NL in Tunica. He had supposedly just come back from a trip to LA/LV.
Seemed a decent player as best I could tell. Might be a 2+2'er for all I know.
Perhaps somebody can verify the story, clarify some of the stuff I might have gotten wrong, or tell me that this story is total B.S. for whatever reason.

Here's his story he was telling the table:
He's rail-birding 100/200 NL at the Commerce (didn't know they spread THAT high. He said it was because of the tourneys they were running).

Some guy bets $2k on the river. 20 chips of $100.
Phil Laak reaches to a stack at the back of his chips and grabs 20 chips of $5k each.
After pretending like he was 'calling' the 20 chips bet the dealer tells him that Laak just bet $100k.

Laak says that he only meant to call $2k and that it was an accident. Dealer won't let him take his bet back because his chips were already out there and he never said "call."

The other guy thinks it over and calls with a fairly inferior hand and is all-in for his remaining $70k.
Phil Laak turns over the nuts (had AJ for broadway or something).

I've never played in Calif.
Evidently, the $100 chips look nothing like the $5k chips.
The $5k chips are also supposed to be a little bit larger.

And, since he had the nuts, there was pretty much no chance that Laak would only call in that spot anyway so there is pretty much a 0% chance that Laak didn't know that he was really betting $100k.

Anyone confirm this story?
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