Dead at 52
Poker Community Mourns Loss of Layne Flack at 52
Back-to-back Flack. It’s difficult to find people in the poker world who don’t know to whom that nickname refers. One could also refer to him by his first name only. Layne Flack was one of the best poker players of the past 25 years.
He was certainly one of the best players in his heyday, which happened to start before the poker boom and last until very recently. In fact, he was still cashing in tournaments until mid-pandemic by playing online in the summer of last year.
Flack died at his home on Monday, July 19. He reportedly died in his sleep, though a cause of death is not yet known. He was 52 years old.
Long before some of today’s new poker players were even born, Flack was winning poker tournaments in poker rooms from Billings to Las Vegas, making final tables from a Card Player Cruise to Lake Elsinore. He went where the poker took him.
Mostly, Flack traveled back and forth from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, playing tournaments in the Los Angeles area card rooms like the Bicycle Casino and Commerce Casino and hitting Vegas for World Series of Poker action each summer.
Of course, he traveled to other poker rooms, too. In 2000 alone, he accumulated final tables in Tunica, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Atlantic City
Artist/Author: Layne Flack July 23, 2021 |
