August 18, 2010 Phil Laak is recovering from his serious ATV accident and although the road to recovery is not easy, things could have been a lot worse for him. His facial stitches were successfully removed five days after his accident. In total, he had 34 stitches along his eye and face. Not nice, even [...]
August 6, 2010 Phil Laak has been involved in a pretty serious ATV accident causing a massive arm injury and requiring him to get stitches around his eye. The good news is that he will be fine although the pictures are not pretty. Despite his rough shape, he still managed to post some pictures on [...]
July 12th, 2010 Phil Laak has busted out of the World Series of Poker Main Event on Day 3. He started his 3rd day of the Championship Event as a short stack with about $15,000 in chips. He was able to find a spot to get all his money into the middle with AQ suited. [...]
July 11th, 2010 Phil Laak has survived Day 2 of the World Series of Poker $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event. He had a bit of a roller coaster day with ups and downs before closing the day with a short stack of $15,000. He was seated at the 2nd featured TV table so his [...]
July 6th, 2010 Although Phil Laak spent most of the World Series of Poker playing the high stakes side games at the Bellagio, he has promised not to miss the most prized tournament in poker – the WSOP Main Event. Second Biggest Main Event Ever! This year’s Main Event has seen a huge increase over [...]
June 6th, 2010 Preview: Phil Laak has smashed the Guinness Book of World Records record for Poker Endurance. He had aimed for a personal and record time of 80 hours and has now gone well beyond that time. He has played poker for four days straight (96 hours) and is still going strong! Follow [...]
June 2, 2010 Preview: Phil Laak will be attempting to break the Poker Endurance record and get his name in the Guinness Book of World Records. His plan is to play a marathon 80 hour poker session to set a new world record. The time to beat is 78 hours and 45 minutes set by [...]
May 21st, 2010 Phil Laak plans to play 80 hours of straight poker in order to beat the Guinness Book of World Records’ record for Poker Endurance. The record attempt will take place on June 2nd at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The previous record was set by Paul Zimbler in 2009. Zimbler played for [...]
May 4th, 2010 Phil Laak is back in the action, taking part in the 2nd European Poker Tour event in Monte Carlo.This time, he has entered the €25,000 High Roller event that follows the regular EPT Monte Carlo Main Event tournament. Despite the Unabomber’s early exit in the Main Event earlier this week, [...]
April 15th, 2010 Well rested and fresh off a marathon session for PartyPoker’s Big Game IV, Phil “Unabomber” Laak and Jennifer Tilly have unexpectedly found their way over to Monte Carlo to take part in the PokerStars sponsored European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Event. Volcanic Ash Traps Them in London The couple became trapped in [...]