^^ those are just awesome!

^^^^ Excellent

Pure win spooge516

I just wasted an hour of my life on this stupid ass thread NVG FAIL!

would def agree with a bump to this thread

Get it right

This is great ... LOLOLOL

+1 lul'd hard

looks like madsen has big cheww in

So in 2010 (the year of this thread) I rented an apartment near Nice for a week. (Nice, and the surrounding area is awesome btw, but that's not really relevant to this thread.)

One day I was at the Nice airport to pick up a friend who was coming to visit me for a few days and as I was waiting for him, this guy who looked rather familiar came rushing out of arrivals.

It was Antonio Esfandiari and, as I later realized, he was probably there for the Partouche poker tour final which was starting about then.

He rushed out of the gate and up to two guys who were waiting for him and started asking them how he could call the US collect. He was very insistent on calling the US asap and since mobile phones were a thing even back then, I remember wondering why he wouldn't just use one of those but international calls were really expensive back then and even more so from mobile, so I guess he wouldn't have enough for the buy-in if he'd used that.

I remember thinking that he probably wanted to call Laak because seeing Antonio without Phil was kinda weird and so that was the only option I could think of for someone he was so desperate to get in touch with after a long flight.

I did consider going up to him and have a chat, but with him being so busy with international calls I thought I'd better not. This probably would've been a better story if I had, but there you go - it is what it is.

Anyway - 7+ years later and Esfandiari and Laak are two of very few known and respected poker celebs of that era who haven't been later been outed as cheating scumbags (as has the Partouche poker tour and pretty much everything and everyone else we liked/loved back then) so I vote we call it a draw between them.

How do you even find this thread 7 yrs later? why do you feel the need to even post a fake story? you must be bored

if i was admin id ban u for a week for stupidity

Username checks out.

Worth reviving just to refute this prediction.

okay

I've always been a fan of both, they're entertaining to watch play. Love that pro analysis bit they do on wsop coverage and Antonio's commentary on wsop is excellent imo.

lmaooooooooo wp

Mean while in Laak Land

Don't think I've ever understood one thing laak has ever said