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Sad news today.

Shaun's dad passed away today after a long illness.

My thoughts are with you and your family.

RIP Mr Conning x

Sorry to hear the news buddy!

RIP

Thoughts and condolences are with shaun and his family.

Spoke to shaun a lot and know his dad was a great man. RIP

My condolences.

RIP Mr.Conning.

Sad news. Thoughts with the family.

RIP

Thoughts with you and your family Shaun.

RIP

I hate quoting in these threads, but this really does sum up my thoughts too.

Sad day for Shaun and my thoughts are with him and the rest of the family.

My condolences Shaun.

Sorry to hear :(

Condolences to Shaun and the family

Rest in peace Mr. Conning

sorry to hear mate. Glad you got to spend so much time with him mate. RIP

Very sorry to hear this. Hope you're holding up mate, my thoughts are with you.

sorry to hear this mate :(

RIP

RIP Mr Conning x

Sorry to hear.  thinking of you x

All the best mate, great you had few months with him at end, you done him proud. RIP

Very sad news, RIP.

Very Sad RIP

sorry to hear this, RIP

Thanks everyone - in the circumstances the days been pretty good, dad went incredibly peacefully at 11am - and dad had a good last four weeks which was a bonus.  I appreciate the comments, and also the support from well actually quite a few of you in the thread over the past year....albeit drunken chats from Coventry to Vegas to London, or late night Skype chats.  There's people I've met through blonde and poker since I quit work and become more active on the scene, that if you'd have asked me a year ago I didn't even know, let alone would expect support like friends I've known for years.  I really appreciate that and am truly grateful.

Hes had amazing support from Marie Curie and the Weldmar Trust and as a result I am going to do something from a creative staking perspective in the next few months for a £1k event, probably MonteCarlo - mentioned it to Cos - sell 25% at 2.0, give the "profit" and match it direct to Marie Curie so they lock up £500 and match it with a 25% share from me. Will be a good sweat and we talked about it last week and he was well up for it - especially after Dublin where he was so proud. So I'll get onto it at some point and do it all through just giving.com so above aboard.

Thanks again. Shaun

Condolences  Sir  .

my condolences Shaun :(

Its a horrible thing to see someone you care about go through something like that, from speaking to shaun over the last few months it sounds like his Dad was in reasonable comfort and extremely high spirits which was fantastic. It's such a shame but it sounds like a wonderful, dignified end which is what I think Shaun and his family wanted, so in a bizarre way this should be a celebration.

All the best Shaun xxx

Very sorry to hear about this Shaun.  RIP Mr Conning and please put me down for 10% of the. staking or whatever you feel appropriate if you want to share it around more if there is the demand.

so sorry mate, thinking of you and your family. X.

You have an uncanny knack of getting things - well just about spot on mate, in a bizarre way you said exactly what I've been thinking :-) - cheers Dave. Talk soon x

I'm so sorry to hear that news, Shaun, our Dad is the most precious thing we have in life. I'm glad he was around for Dublin a few weeks ago, & I'm sure he was extremely proud then, & always, of you.

Times will be tough for a while for you & the family, but at least he is at rest, & asleep, in a good place.

My thoughts are with you & your family at this terrible time.

Thoughts with you RIP Mr Conning

RIP Mr Conning, good that you had the freedom to spend so much time with him Shaun, thoughts are with you and your family.

Sorry to hear this Shaun, thoughts are with you and your family at this sad time, RIP X

My sincerest condolences to you and your family Shaun at this sad time!!

RIP Mr Conning

Never got to meet him, but listened to him and Shaun have their regular chats on skype whilst in Vegas last year and you could tell he loved his son to bits
I think he was worried initially that Shaun was having time out to just play poker but then he saw him win a couple of big games online and have his great run in the WPT and was very proud of his son.
He bravely fought his illness for a lot longer than doctors expected and over the last six months Shaun was driving down to the south coast to spend half the week with his Dad and had some great quality time with him despite him being very poorly.

Hope your coping alright mate, give me a call if you want someone to chat to.

RIP Mr Conning. Thinking of you all. xx