 Layne Flack is Back!
Wins Sixth WSOP
Bracelet
Five WSOP bracelets
is great but Layne
Flack has been in a
bit of a slump for
the past five years.
The last bracelet
won was in 2003.
That all changed
this weekend as
Flack walked off
with this sixth WSOP
bracelet.
"I got off track
pretty good for a
while, I spent the
last year regrouping
and getting my life
back together,"
Flack told
Card Player Magazine.
"I want to throw out
a kudos to my life
coach who’s turned
my life back around.
Fast Eddie Felson –
the world's greatest
pool hustler. You
know the movie “The
Color of Money,” the
man they wrote the
movie about…Fast
Eddie Felson -- Ed
Walters."
During his long
slump, Flack turned
to recreational drug
use. His
friend, Daniel
Negreanu stepped in
and paid $60,000 for
him to go into
rehab. Flack has
apparently now
recovered from the
experience.
Six bracelets has
put Layne Flack in
the top ten of all
time players at the
World Series of
Poker.
"These tournaments
are so hard, you
don’t look at the
bracelet, you look
at fighting every
day. Every day I
come in I don’t even
look at the finish
line, I don’t even
look at how many
bracelets I have,
and I just battle
through that day."
The part time
Montana resident has
- to date - won
$3,400,000 in live
tournament play and
is once again a
force to be reckoned
with.
 Elsewhere,
Team Bodog
Player Aaron Kanter
found himself at the
final table of event
number 36 this
weekend.
Best known for his
fourth-place finish
at the 2005 World
Series of Poker Main
Event, in which he
cashed for $2
million, Kanter has
racked up four WSOP
cashes since then,
including two this
year alone. He has
also built a solid
reputation online
for his prowess in
massive multi-table
online poker
tournaments.
Kanter entered the
final table with an
uphill battle as he
is the short stack
and is facing
several other
well-known online
poker players,
including Cody "thugmoneymkr"
Slaubaugh, Owen "ocrowe"
Crowe and the chip
leader Jesper "KipsterDK"
Hougaard.
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Ace King,
Gambling911.com
Originally published
June 21, 2008 10:57
pm EST
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