Was very sad and shocked to hear this, I gained a lot of respect for him from the way he battled on and tried to live his life normally by carrying on playing and so on even though you could see he was in a really bad way.
Thats a pity... last saw him in one of those Poker shows in which he played against some fellow Snooker Players. He might not have been as good as he used to be, surely cause of his illness, but he gained my respect for keeping it on although he was going through chemotherapy...