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Layne Flack

An Active WPT Tournament player, Layne has participated in Four Final Tables in 2004 alone. In 2003 he achieved an unprecedented Two First Place WSOP Titles earning him his moniker 'Back to Back' Flack.

View the profiles of people named Layne Flack. Join Facebook to connect with Layne Flack and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to. The player with the 8c-5c was Layne Flack and his opponent was Daniel Negreanu. While everyone has seen Daniel’s game on TV, few know much about Layne. Layne Flack is an aggressive player, and likes to raise pre-flop with a range of hands. The hand was featured in a CardPlayer article and analyzed by Roy Winston and Michael Binger.

Many people have likened Layne Flack to the infamous Stu Ungar, mostly because their poker play is something next to genius and the both fought battles with drug and alcohol addictions.

Layne was born in Rapid City, South Dakota on May 18, 1969 and spent his early years in Montana, but returned to Rapid City to graduate from high school in 1987. He enrolled in college in 1991 and in his off time he worked as a dealer in the casinos of Deadwood. Like many others though, Layne found playing poker much more lucrative and exciting than college or working, so he scrapped both of them to become a full-time player.

Flack and his girlfriend lived in Reno briefly, but when their daughter Hailey was born in 1995 they returned to Montana, settling in Bozeman where Layne helped open and operate a poker room. In 1997, with the encouragement of his friend and mentor Huck Seed, Layne traveled alone to Las Vegas.

Jumping right into tournament play he took first in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event at the Hall of Fame Poker Classic. He booked his first World Series of Poker win in 1998, placing second in the $2,000 no-Limit Hold’em event and claimed his first WSOP bracelet in 1999 in the Pot’Limit Hold’em event. Layne continued to place in the money and in 2002 he got his nickname of “Back to Back” Flack when he won two events in a row—the $2,500 Omaha Hi-low split and the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout—and two more coveted bracelets. In 2003 he picked up two more WSOP bracelets reinforcing his “Back to Back” title.

Flack had gained the attention of many people, Johnny Chan offered advice and backed him in several tournaments, and when the drugs and alcohol took their toll in 2004, Daniel Negreanu covered the $60,000 bill for his rehab. Phil Hellmuth called Flack a “No-Limit Hold’em Genius” saying he has a healthy respect for “Drunk Layne”—his reads are dead on and he has no fear. Over the next several years, Layne continued to play and cash, but even after rehab, he was still waging a battle with his personal demons.

In June of 2008, with many supporters in his corner, a sober Layne Flack, ran over the opposition in the WSOP $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha with re-buys event to claim his sixth bracelet and pocket $577,725 the largest cash win of his career. Layne has also placed 5 times during the World Poker Tour, including a first place title in 2003 Invitational tournament, winning $125,000.

Layne has amassed more than $4,000,000 in live tournament wins and with his lifestyle taking a turn for the better it looks like his opponents will be getting some more Flack from “Back to Back” Flack.

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Layne Flack

Layne Flack was born in Rapid City, South Dakota on May 18, 1969. Layne Flack started playing cards as a child, and when he grew up he decided to become a poker dealer at a casino. He would play poker after work, and soon quit his job as a dealer so he could play poker full-time.

On the advice of Huck Seed, who he had met in Montana, Layne Flack went to Las Vegas to try his poker game there. Layne Flack did well, and used his winnings to enter more and more poker tournaments. After a poker tournament he had won, Layne Flack went to play some more poker and lost almost all of what he had won. That is when he met Johnny Chan. Johnny Chan told him to go get some sleep and he would stake Layne Flack in the poker tournament the next day. Layne Flack followed Johnny Chan’s advice and won the tournament the next day. Chan’s investment had paid off.

Layne Flack now has 5 World Series of Poker bracelets, two of them coming in consecutive events in 2003, earning him the nickname “Back to Back Flack.” Layne’s WSOP victories came in 1999 in Pot Limit Holdem, both his victories in 2002 came in No Limit Holdem, and his consecutive victories in 2003 came in Omaha Hi-Lo Split and Limit Holdem Shootout.

Layne Flack started doing drugs, and it became so much of a problem that in 2004 his girlfriend picked out a rehab center for him while his friend, fellow poker pro Daniel Negreanu paid the entire $60,000 bill. His month in rehab helped Layne Flack out immensely and got his life back on track.

Layne also has a World Poker Tour title and has won nearly $3.5 million dollars in tournament winnings. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He plays at PokerStars under the screen name reloadthis.

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