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Layne Flack is a six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, which puts him in a tie for no. 9 all time with poker legends such as Daniel Negreanu, TJ Cloutier, Jay Heimowitz, Jeff Lisandro, and Ted Forrest. He also has numerous World Poker Tour final table appearances, and a title in the WPT Invitational. The 49-year-old poker pro has slightly more than $5 million in career live tournament earnings. Flack got his start both playing in, and running poker games near his childhood homes in Montana and South Dakota. After a nudge from 1996 WSOP main event winner Huck Seed, he made his way to Las Vegas and immediately found his way into the winner's circle. He earned the nickname "Back-to-Back Flack" after taking down consecutive events at the Legends of Poker series in 1999, and then further cemented that moniker by doing it again at the WSOP in both 2002 and 2003. Highlights from this interview include a passion for singing competitions, the stabbin' cabin, crushing games in Deadwood, why he didn't last long as a dealer, how to properly hit and run, playing Men the Master for the Orient Express, no sleep between bracelets, the unfortunate influence of Mike Matusow, putting his underwear on the table, how Ted Forrest lost one of his bracelets, the politics of the Poker Hall of Fame, $250k pots in Larry Flynt's game, getting a piece of Doyle Brunson, two weeks at McDonalds, stand up strip club games, and that one time he almost went undercover for the Chicago mafia to play in Michael Jordan's home game before being outed by David Letterman.
On this episode of DAT Poker Podcast: Adam gets Daniel to review the stars we all knew 5 years ago. Plus Dan Smith joins us to talk about his charity drive www.DoubleUpDrive.com and how it came to be. To begin the guys talk about Terrence’s title fight which is 2 days away and how his training went. The fight talk naturally leads into Rocky/Creed 2 discussion. Daniel also talks about his new NHL betting twitter. In The News: PokerNews is facing a $7m lawsuit over copyright infringement and Poker Night In America faces backlash over the treatment of a recreational player on the show. Also, Cardplayer ran a story on how the all time tournament money winner list has changed since 2013. This inspires Adam and Daniel to talk about what some of those stars of 5 years ago are doing now. Players like Antonio Esfandiari, John Juanda, Scotty Nguyen and TJ Cloutier are discussed and Daniel has some great stories!
In episode 318 of the Top Pair Home Game Poker Podcast, Bruce Briggs and Robbie Strazynski recap another fun couple weeks of home games. They then go on to talk about “splash pot” poker room promotions and how they could perhaps be applied/modified to the home game scene. Marking nine years of the podcast, the guys then refresh one of their favorite topics: what type of poker chips you can and should be using in your home games. Finally, this episode’s One Outer will have you chuckling to a fun TJ Cloutier story.
Warren K talks poker with TJ Cloutier and more!