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Layne Flack
Layne Flack is one of the more tragic but great poker
players that is currently on the circuit.
Born May 18, 1969 in Rapid City, South Dakota, Layne was not a poker
player to begin with but he did work in a casino where he learned the best
there is about the game. This gave him
the edge he needed to continue on. Flack
would spend all of his free time in another casino honing his skills and
winning all the money that he could.
This began to take its toll on him and he figured out that he could not
continue to work full time and play poker too, so he left the casino and became
a full time gambler. This came on the heels of the revelation that he was named
the night manager of the casino but that did not shake his determination to
become the best there is in poker.
He
started to work, hitting the casinos for the high stakes games and kept
winning. There came a time when he was
not winning so hot and was getting into trouble. This is when he met the prolific Johnny Chan
who took Flack under his wing and offered all the help and advice that he could
get. This was a turning point in Flack’s
career and he soon began to improve so much that he could enter the
tournaments. This proved to be quite the
accomplishment.
Right
now Flack is the proud owner of five World Series of Poker bracelets and
fifteen money finishes in the various tournaments that it holds. There is no main event bracelet among the
bunch and his best finish in the main event was one hundred ninety fourth. He continued on and holds one World Poker
Tour title as well as five money finishes for the tour as well.
One
of the most tragic parts of the story is the addiction to drugs that Flack
picked up in 2004. This would have been
his undoing had it not been for Daniel Negreanu who stepped up and footed the
bill for Flack to go to rehab. He is now
clean and continues to work at his poker skills rather than the drugs.
At
37 Flack has earned over three million dollars in live tournament prizes and
still continues to work the tables in the casinos to further hone his skills
and maybe make another run at the main event in the near future.
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