Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics

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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...

[Riina]

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 [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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.

[archangel]

understanding that there are at least three sides to every story, i wouldn't be surprised to learn that this guy's version is probably reasonably close to the truth.

[antisocialgrace]

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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 [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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.

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Laak is unquestionably a scumbag, too much angle shooting and attention whoring.

Esfandari strikes me as a scumbag also, but he's a bit more reserved. I distrust anyone in poker who has spent untold hours learning how to do card tricks.

When you get right down to it all these guys are kind of degenerate scumbags, the big name players that is. Would you trust any of them to give you an even break? Maybe Laak and Esfandari don't stand out afterall.

[glimmertwin]

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Laak is unquestionably a scumbag, too much angle shooting and attention whoring.

Esfandari strikes me as a scumbag also, but he's a bit more reserved. I distrust anyone in poker who has spent untold hours learning how to do card tricks.


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antisocialgrace, is there *anyone* who plays poker who you don't regard as a scumbag? Is it because you believe that it's impossible for anyone to win without being a cheat or angleshooter?

[antisocialgrace]

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Laak is unquestionably a scumbag, too much angle shooting and attention whoring.

Esfandari strikes me as a scumbag also, but he's a bit more reserved. I distrust anyone in poker who has spent untold hours learning how to do card tricks.


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antisocialgrace, is there *anyone* who plays poker who you don't regard as a scumbag? Is it because you believe that it's impossible for anyone to win without being a cheat or angleshooter?

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in the high stakes games I think the guys you haven't heard of are suckers lets just put it that way.

maybe if i couldn't tell you a story about nearly every well known player that didn't paint him in a bad light I might not be so harsh in my judgment.

I don't think it's impossible to win without cheating (at high stakes) but I think honest players are losing a lot of EV.

[bustedromo]

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.

[please.muck]

lol phillaakhomicidaments

[havewemetbefore]

what an absolute joke of a story

[exec771]

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