Layne Flack - Live Updates

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: Chad Brown,   Layne Flack,   Shawn Buchanan,   Robert Williamson III

Layne Flack Eliminated

Feb 17, '09

After taking a few hits last level, Layne Flack has been eliminated from the tournament.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Player Tags: Layne Flack

Mike Matusow Eliminated by Major Cooler

Feb 17, '09

Limit Hold'em

Mike Matusow was all in preflop on the extreme short stack against Layne Flack and Matt Graham.

The flop came QJ8 and Graham bet. Flack made the call and both players checked the 10 on the turn.

The river was the Q and Flack bet in the dark. Graham raised and Flack called.

Graham showed Q10 for a rivered queens full and Flack couldn't believe it, showing AK for a broadway straight.

Matusow tops Flack by showing JJ for jacks full, but it isn't enough to stay in the tourament.

A video of the hand will be posted shortly.

 

Player Tags: Layne Flack,   Mike Matusow,   Matt Graham

Huge Pot in Stud 8/ob

Feb 16, '09

Stud Eight or Better

A huge five-handed pot just went down involving Chris Reslock, Matt Graham, David Benyamine, Layne Flack and another player.

Despite leading the betting earlier in the hand, Reslock, showing a board of 3610Q, had to fold on seventh street after seemingly missing some kind of straight/ flush draw combination.

Benyamine showed down A4(7443)8 for trip fours with an 8-7 low. The hand normally has scooping potential but lost both halves of the pot when Flack showed KK(10K97)A for higher trips. Graham showed 43(J582)2 for an 8-5 low.

 

 

Player Tags: Layne Flack,   David Benyamine,   Chris Reslock,   Matt Graham

Layne Flack Eliminated

Feb 17, '09

After taking a few hits last level, Layne Flack has been eliminated from the tournament.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Player Tags: Layne Flack

Mike Matusow Eliminated by Major Cooler

Feb 17, '09

Limit Hold'em

Mike Matusow was all in preflop on the extreme short stack against Layne Flack and Matt Graham.

The flop came QJ8 and Graham bet. Flack made the call and both players checked the 10 on the turn.

The river was the Q and Flack bet in the dark. Graham raised and Flack called.

Graham showed Q10 for a rivered queens full and Flack couldn't believe it, showing AK for a broadway straight.

Matusow tops Flack by showing JJ for jacks full, but it isn't enough to stay in the tourament.

A video of the hand will be posted shortly.

 

Player Tags: Layne Flack,   Mike Matusow,   Matt Graham

Huge Pot in Stud 8/ob

Feb 16, '09

Stud Eight or Better

A huge five-handed pot just went down involving Chris Reslock, Matt Graham, David Benyamine, Layne Flack and another player.

Despite leading the betting earlier in the hand, Reslock, showing a board of 3610Q, had to fold on seventh street after seemingly missing some kind of straight/ flush draw combination.

Benyamine showed down A4(7443)8 for trip fours with an 8-7 low. The hand normally has scooping potential but lost both halves of the pot when Flack showed KK(10K97)A for higher trips. Graham showed 43(J582)2 for an 8-5 low.

 

 

Player Tags: Layne Flack,   David Benyamine,   Chris Reslock,   Matt Graham

Level Five Update

Dec 14, '08

Level: 5

Blinds/Antes: 300-600 with a 75 ante

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Scoreboard

Players Left: 237 of 293
Average: 55,823

Notable Chip Counts

Carlos Mortensen - 142,000
Mark Teltscher - 133,000
Scott Bohlman - 129,000
Paul Niemela - 128,000
Liz Lieu - 123,000

Notable Eliminations

Marco Johnson
Gavin Smith

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Big Hands:

Layne Flack Doubles Up

Four players saw a flop of 1052 and Layne Flack bet 5,000 from late position. Michael Kamran and seat 10 mucked before seat 2  made the call. The turn fell 8 and seat 2 checked. Flack bet 10,000 and seat 2 went into the tank. He then decided to raise to 45,000 and Flack made the all-in call. They turned up their hands and Flack turned up 1010. His opponent showed down A10 and Flack doubled up to survive.

Haralabos Voulgaris Doubles Up

The flop read 543 when Haralabos Voulgaris bet 2,150. Alan Goehring raised to 6,000 and Voulgaris reraised all in for 15,750. Goehring made the call and they turned up their hands. Goehring held AK and Voulgaris turned up pocket nines. The turn and river fell Q9 and Voulgaris doubled up to survive courtesy of Goehring.

Schreiber vs. Schulman

On a board of A73A both Daniel Schreiber and Nick Schulman checked a pot worth 26,000. The river fell K and Schreiber opened the action for 11,000. Schulman made the call and Schreiber flipped up A9. Schulman mucked and Schreiber took down the pot late on day 1B.

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Left in the Deck:

Card Player Player of the Year Breakdown

POY Points awarded for $15,000 WPT Doyle Brunson Classic Championship

1st: 2,400
2nd: 2,000
3rd: 1,600
4th: 1,200
5th: 1,000
6th: 800

Current POY Leader: John Phan- 6,704

POY Contenders (place they need to finish to catch Phan)

David Pham: 6,022 -- points behind 682 (sixth or higher)
Elky Grospellier: 5,510 -- points behind 1,194 (fourth or higher)
Ivan Demidov: 4,940 -- points behind 1,764 (second or higher)
Erik Seidel: 4,754 -- points behind 1,950 (first)
Michael Binger: 4,416 -- points behind 2,288 (first)

Player Tags: John Phan,   Alan Goehring,   Layne Flack,   Haralabos Voulgaris,   Michael Kamran