Go Phil!

I just got this email from my sister and I thought I would share the news!

Phil just made the final table of the first event of the
world series of poker (which will be televised in the fall)  If you
want to follow along as it happens go to cardplayer.com, click on Pot
Limit 10,00 world championship live updates.  Phil is number 4 in chip
counts He has a real good shot at winning his first bracelet!

Yay Phil!  The family is rooting for you.  For those of you who don’t know, Phil is my sister, Jennifer’s boyfriend, and they have been together long enough and happily enough that Phil qualifies as part of the family.  Phil (Laak) is also known to the poker world as “The Unabomber.“  He is a kick-ass professional poker player and a super nice guy.  He came to Vancouver a little while back for the titanic battle of the robots versus the humans and every time Phil and his partner would play a hand the robot guys would punch in a bunch more data into the robots.  And it was an epic battle but Phil and his partner walked away the heroes.  It was close, but they did it.  The humans triumphed over the robots.  And then we all went out for Chinese food and conversation and it was fun

Anyway, Phil, we know you have the skill and the c_____s and the rest of it is in the hands of the Poker Gods and we all have our fingers crossed that the cards go your way.

Posted by Meg Tilly on Sunday, June 01, 2008 in Chewing the Fat