Layne Flack Poker Tournament Updates

Layne Flack Eliminated by Doug Lee

Dec 04, '10

Layne Flack raised to 3,700 under the gun and Doug Lee made the call from the button. The flop fell J 9 2 and Flack bet 6,000. Lee made the call and the turn fell K. Flack checked and Lee moved all in. Flack made the snap call and they flipped over their cards:

Flack: K 8
Lee: A Q

River: A

Lee spiked the ace on the river to win the hand and grow his stack to 345,000. Flack was eliminated and exited the tournament area.

Player Tags: Layne Flack,   Doug Lee

Level Eight Hour One: Dolly's Bluff Picked Off

Jul 10, '10

Blinds: 400-800 with a 100 ante

Players Remaining: 1,836 out of 7,319

Chip Counts:

1. Gabriel Walls — 435,000
2. David Assouline — 330,000
3. Charles Sylvestre — 240,000
4. Jason DeWitt — 239,000
5. Max Casal — 220,000
6. Christopher Lee — 215,000
7. Dave Sands — 210,000
8. Vanessa Selbst — 205,000
9. Ricardo Fasanaro — 204,000
10. Steve Billirakis — 200,000

Card Player Chip Counts:

Josh Brikis — 97,500
Mike Matusow — 11,300
Jon Friedberg – 30,000
Roy Winston — 19,000
Jennifer Harman — 22,000
Jeff Shulman – 23,500

Notable Eliminations:

Freddy Deeb
JC Tran
Gavin Griffin

Big Hands:

Brunson’s Bluff Gets Picked Off

One hand after raising to 2,100 from middle position and taking down the blind, Brunson raised to 2,100 again and this time was called by Jameson Singer in the big blind.

The flop ran 647 and Singer checked to Doyle, who also checked. The turn was the K and when Singer checked, Brunson fired 4,500. Singer thought for a while and called.

On the K river Singer checked and Brunson bet out 11,000 this time. As the ESPN cameras swarmed, Singer went into the tank for a couple of minutes. “You’re getting your TV time,” said Brunson. Singer smiled and finally made the call, showing 75 for top two pair. Brunson mucked his hand and dropped to around 34,000.

Oh Captain! My Captain!

One table down from Brunson, Captain Tom Franklin raised to 2,200 from the button and was called by the player in the big blind.

The flop ran 9K5 and the big blind led out for 3,000. Franklin mucked, but still had around 62,000 in chips.

Selbst Doubles Up Opponent

Vanessa Selbst raised to 3,000 and the player in seat 6 raised to 11,300. When action folded back to Selbst she pushed in a stack of 5,000 chips, enough to put seat 6 all in. He tanked for a while, then called. Their hands:

Selbst: JJ
Seat 6: AQ

The flop ran 99Q, putting Selbst’s opponent in the lead. The board finished with the 2 and the 10 and Selbst took a hit of 35,000, doubling up her opponent. After the hand she still had around 180,000 in chips.

Buchman Wins Race to Double

Eric Buchman got into a preflop raising war with his opponent that led to him getting all-in.

Buchman held AK and was up against the JJ of his opponent. Buchman hit an ace on the turn to win the pot and double up to 125,000

Selbst Gets Aces and Action

Selbst raised to 1,800 from middle position and was three-bet by a player to 7,200. Action got back to Selbst and Selbst made it 20,200. Her opponent moved almost all of his cihps into the middle and Selbst jammed all-in and her opponent made the call.

Selbst shows AA and was up against her opponent’s AK. The flop was K22 and Selbst needed to dodge a king. She was successful in that venture with the 7 on the turn and the Q on the river.

The NAPT Mohegan Sun champion is up to 205,000 in chips with that pot.

Mizrachi Hits His Spades

Michael and Robert advanced to day 3 yesterday and their brother Eric is trying to join them there.

Eric Mizrachi called a raise of 2,200 and check-called a flop of K47. Both players checked the J turn card and saw the 3 fall on the river.

Mizrachi led out on the river and was called by his opponent. Mizrachi tabled the 89 and took the flush. Mizrachi is up to 110,000 with the pot.

Pavilion Room Coverage

David Singer Doubles Up

A player in early position bet and David Singer moved all in for 13,000 more. His opponent made the all and exposed the A10. Singer was ahead with the KK. The board ran out 1063QQ an singer doubled to around the starting stack of 30,000.

Layne Flack Short

Layne Flack bet preflop and and was called by a player in the big blind. The flop came A75 and the player in the big blind bet 3,000. Flack called. The turn brought the 10 and action went check-check. The 2 fell on the river an Flack’s opponent bet 5,000. Flack called and was unhappy to see the KJ. Flack was down to just 12,000 after the hand.

Chris Ferguson Caught

On a board reading 1072102 Chris Ferguson bet 10,000 and his opponent went into the tank. He eventually made the call and Ferguson tapped the table. His opponent exposed the AK and took the pot. Ferguson was down to 26,000 after the hand.

Player Tags: Tom Franklin,   Chris Ferguson,   Layne Flack,   Eric Buchman,   Doyle Brunson,   David Singer,   Vanessa Selbst

Level 3: Shaun Deeb Chipping Up

Jun 20, '10

Blinds: 150-300

Players Left: 250 of 268

Average Chip Count: 32,160

Leaderboard

1. Dani Stern — 80,000
2. Jonathan Little — 77,000
3. Steve O’Dwyer — 64,000
4. Shaun Deeb — 62,000
5. Marcus Lehmann — 54,000
6. Bertrand Grospellier — 53,000
7. Roberto Romanello — 52,000
8. Jesse martin — 51,000
9. Christian Harder — 49,500
10. Jennifer Tilly — 47,000

Big Hands

Deeb Chips Up With Bluff

Shaun Deeb bet 6,000 on a board of JJ24K and his opponent folded, unable to commit half of his remaining stack on the hand. Deeb showed 87 for a total bluff, and his stack grew to around 62,000.

Serock Out-kicks Flack

Joe Serock already has three deep runs in the 2010 World Series of Poker and he’s hoping for another one. He was recently in a pot with Layne Flack, where on a flop of A63 Serock bet 1,000 and Flack and another player called.

Serock slowed and checked to Flack on the 5 turn and Flack fired 3,200. The other played folded but Serock called. The K hit on the river and both players checked. Their hands:

Flack: A7
Serock: AJ

Both had a pair of aces but Serock had Flack out-kicked, taking the pot to boost up to 33,000, while Flack dropped to around 20,000.

Player Tags: Layne Flack,   Shaun Deeb,   Joseph Serock

Level 6 Update

Aug 23, '09

Blinds: 300-600 with a 50 ante

Players Remaining: 162 out of 278

Chip Counts:

1. Steven Begleiter — 220,000
2. Alex Golshanara — 135,025
3. Bobby Suer — 125,000
4. Tommy Vedes — 124,725
5. Markus Gonsalves — 108,600
6. Eugene Katchalov — 108,000
7. Matt Marafioti — 107,500
8. Eddie Ngo — 105,000
9. Paul Lieu — 104,000
10. Toto Leonidas — 102,000

Average Chip Count: 51,666

Notable Eliminations:

Alexandre Gomes
David Daneshgar
Justin Scott
Brent Hanks
Matt Stout
Adam Junglen
Chad Batista

Hand of the Level:

Layne Flack Wins a Nice One

Under the gun raised to 2,200 preflop and the cutoff made the call. Layne Flack also made the call in the big blind and the flop fell K87. Flack checked and UTG bet 4,300. The cutoff mucked and Flack made the call. The turn fell 5 and Flack checked. UTG bet 10,000 and Flack made the call again.

The river brought the 4 and Flack checked. UTG also checked and Flack turned over KQ. UTG mucked and Flack won the pot to grow his stack to 45,000.

Level Summary:

The first level of the day saw just over 20 players exit the field as blinds edged up to 300-600 with a 50 ante. Chief among the eliminations was Bellagio Cup V winner Alexandre Gomes, who fell about a half hour into play. Gomes took a huge hit just minutes into the day when Josh Schlein turned a straight to cripple the Brazilian star. There will be no back-to-back WPT winner here at the Bike.

The path of another Team PokerStars Pro was very different during the sixth level of play in the tournament. Daniel Negreanu doubled up not once, but twice during the first level of the day to find his stack grow to 54,000. Negreanu doubled up through Kenna James on the the first pass, and then he employed trip sevens to double up a second time.

Player Tags: Layne Flack

Final Table Update: Down to Five

Jun 23, '09

Players Remaining: 5 out of 412

Chip Counts:

1. Jerrod Ankenman — 1,570,000
2. Sergey Altbregin — 650,000
3. Chris Klodnicki — 350,000
4. Jeff Tims — 215,000
5. Jon Turner — 210,000

Average Chip Count: 618,000

Notable Eliminations:

8. Dario Alioto – $25,860
7. Layne Flack – $30,674
6. Eric Crain – $38,075

Elimination Hands:

Dario Alioto Eliminated in Eighth Place ($25,860)

Stud

Dario Alioto and Jon Turner had a pretty set regimen on a stud hand, where Alioto led out and Turner called his bets through fifth street. Turner then check-raised Alioto on sixth street, which forced Alioto to make an all-in call. Their cards:

Turner: (77)6552
Alioto: (99)69JQ

Alioto picked up the J and he was eliminated on the hand in eighth place, courtesy of the trip nines of Turner.

Layne Flack Eliminated in Seventh Place ($30,674)

Stud

Layne Flack got the last of his chips in on fifth street and Eric Crain made the call. Their cards:

Flack: (87)8K5
Crain: (109)934

Flack picked up 78 to make eights up, but Crain received 4Q to make nines up. Flack was eliminated in seventh place.

Eric Crain Eliminated in Sixth Place

NLHE

Jerrod Ankenman raised to 30,000 preflop and Eric Crain reraised all in for 158,000. Ankenman made the call. Their cards:

Crain: KQ
Ankenman: 88

Board: A108K9

Crain was eliminated in sixth place while Ankenman charged to the chip lead with more than 1.5 million.

Player Tags: Layne Flack,   Eric Crain,   Jon Turner,   Dario Alioto,   Jerrod Ankenman

Level 8 Update: End of Day 1; de Wolfe Leads Pack

Jun 11, '09

Day 1 of the $10,000 World Championship of no-limit 2-7 Draw has finally come to an end. Only 60 players of the original 96 entrants remain in contention as Roland de Wolfe leads the pack into Day 2. With a total combined prizepool of $902,400, only 14 places will be paid as some of the world’s greatest players will return to the Rio at 2:00 pm PDT tomorrow to battle it out for the grand prize of $279,742, and the twenty-third gold bracelet of the series.

Be sure to check back with CardPlayer.com tomorrow as we bring you all of the live action from this marquee event.

Blinds: 500-1,000 with a 300 ante

Players Remaining: 60 out of 96

Chip Counts:

1. Roland de Wolfe — 165,000
2. John Juanda — 115,000
3. Vince Musso — 105,000
4. Tim Phan — 95,000
3. Justin Smith — 93,000
5. Pat Bueno — 78,000
6. Johnny Chan — 73,000
7. Andy Black — 71,000
8. Sam Grizzle — 71,000
9. Anton Allemann — 69,000
10. Farzad Bonyadi — 68,000

Average Chip Count: 48,000

Notable Eliminations:

Phil Helllmuth
Huck Seed
Danny Wong
Chad Brown
Allen Cunningham
Marco Traniello
John Monnette
Jon Turner
Chino Rheem

Big Hands:

Phil Hellmuth Eliminated

Phil Hellmuth was all in before the draw in a four-way pot, with two of his opponents drawing one card each as Amnon Filippi stood pat.

Dan Harmetz bets after the draw as Filippi calls and the fourth opponent folds. Harmetz turns over a 10-8-7-6-5 low and rakes the pot, eliminating Phil Hellmuth in the process

Bobby Bellande Doesn’t Want to see a Bluff

Freddy Deeb raises to 2,500 from the button, John Juanda reraises to 10,000 from the small blind and Deeb calls.

Both players draw one card each.

First to act, Juanda tanks for several minutes on his own action before betting 65,000 (enough to put Deeb all in). Deeb counts his stack (44,650) and makes the dealer give Juanda back his change. This would be Deeb’s first attempt to try and steal information from his opponent. Deeb would tank for another few minutes, asking Juanda a series of questions as he desperately looks for a sign of weakness. He doesn’t get what he’s looking for and decides to fold.

Juanda re-checks his cards as Deeb tells him to show the bluff. Just as Juanda is about to turn over his cards, Bobby Bellande chimes in and tells him not to. Juanda looks at his friend and leaves the decision up to him. “Do you want me to show or not?” He asks Bellande. Bellande replies with a straight face, “Don’t show your cards, because if it is a bluff I’m gonna want to call you down all night.”

Juanda listens to his friend and opts not to show the hand as the whole table gets a laugh, including Bellande who we’re pretty sure was serious.

Huck Seed Eliminated

It was a three-way all in pot before the draw between Huck Seed (4,000), Bryan Colin (29,000) and Layne Flack (had them both covered).

Seed and Colin both drew one card each as Flack stood pat.

Flack turned over a 9-8-7-4-2 low while Colin drew to an 8-6-4-3-2 low. Seed thre his cards into the muck as Colin raked the pot, eliminating Huck Seed and chopping Flack’s stack down to 35,000.

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Player Tags: John Juanda,   Huck Seed,   Layne Flack,   Phil Hellmuth,   Amnon Filippi,   Jean-Robert Bellande,   Freddy Deeb

Dinner Break Update

Jun 08, '09

The $2500 no limit hold em six-handed event has just gone on a 90 minute dinner break. Of the 1068 players that started play this afternoon, only 372 remain.

At the top of the 372 left, Layne Flack looks to be the chip leader with 83,000 in chips, while the average stack is only a little more than 20,000. When the players return, they will increase the blinds to 200-400 with a 50 chip ante, as they continue to battle for the $552,685 first place prize.

Check back with Card Player for updates on this event at the end of the day.

Player Tags: Layne Flack

Level 5 Update: Players Back From Break

Jun 07, '09

Blinds: 300-600

Players Remaining: 176 out of 179

Chip Counts:

1. Justin Smith – 57,000
2. David Benyamine – 54,000
3. Thang Luu – 43,000
4. Alex Kravchenko – 42,000
5. Scott Clements — 42,000
6. Jason Lester — 41,000
7. Vitaly Lunkin – 39,000
8. Freddy Deeb – 38,000
9. Brandon Cantu – 37,000
10. Mike Matusow – 35,000

Average Chip Count: 30,511

Big Hands:

Jean-Robert Bellande Flops Quads, Splits Pot

With the KK in his hand, John-Robert Bellande split the pot with Max Pescatori on a board of K3K58. Bellande is at 27,500 and Pescatori is short with 10,200 in chips.

Doyle Brunson Rivers Straight Flush, Scoops Small Pot

With the QJ52 Doyle Brunson took down the entire pot as his straight flush won the high and his 52 was good enough for the low against an opponent. Brunson is now at 41,000.

Phil Ivey Needles Layne Flack

On a board of 2AJ5^, Phil Ivey and his opponent were ready to split the pot when Layne Flack (not in the hand) entered into the situation. After the dealer already mixed together the board, Flack sorted them out again to make sure the split was correct. Players at the table reassured Flack that it was a split, when another player laughingly said, “this is a 6-time bracelet winner.” Ivey added immediately, “And one of them was in this event!”

Left In The Deck:

Daniel Negreanu returned from his runner-up finish in event No. 14 to play in this event.

Player Tags: Max Pescatori,   Layne Flack,   Doyle Brunson,   Phil Ivey,   Jean-Robert Bellande

End of Day 1

Jun 03, '09

The $2,500 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw tournament attracted a field of 147 and somehow played itself down to a ridiculously small field size of 35. Keep in mind that this tournament is scheduled for three days, so it’s possible that the players will have a short run towards the final table on Wednesday.

Notables still in contention include Phil Hellmuth, John Monette, Erick Lindgren, Phil Ivey, John Juanda and Barry Greenstein and Layne Flack. Six-time bracelet winner Layne Flack is the chip leader going into today with 75,125.

Join us when the action resumes at 2 p.m. as we bring you hourly chip count updates all the way to the final table.

Player Tags: Erick Lindgren,   Barry Greenstein,   John Juanda,   Layne Flack,   Phil Hellmuth,   Phil Ivey

Level 10 Update

Mar 16, '09

Big Hands:

Robert Williamson III Eliminated

Robert Williamson III moved all in with pocket nines preflop and Wil Wilkinson called him down with pocket queens. The board ran out Q-9-4-10-7 and Williamson was eliminated. Wilkinson was awarded the $5,000 bounty for winning the set-over-set confrontation.

Layne Flack Eliminated

Layne Flack moved all in preflop with pocket queens and one opponent called him down with pocket aces. The board ran out K-6-6-10-7 to eliminate Flack in the closing minutes of the night.

Shawn Buchanan Eliminated on the Final Hand

Shawn Buchanan was not one of the bounty players today, but that didn’t stop him from becoming the first player in the tournament to profit from his trip to San Jose, California. Buchanan eliminated David Singer, Jamie Gold, and Marco Traniello on day 1A to make $15,000 in bounties. On the very last hand of the night Buchanan was all in with 109. Chad Brown called him down with K10. The board fell QJJ8A and Buchanan was eliminated on the final hand of play.

Player Tags: Layne Flack,   Shawn Buchanan,   Robert Williamson III