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WSOP: Last 380 players in the Main Event, Layne Flack was chosen to the HoF
The 40th playing day of this year's WSOP brought a key moment in the main tournament – the bubble burst. This year, this brought a truly unprecedented situation - on the bubble, as many as five tables were all-in/call at the same time, which resulted in three eliminations. All three players shared one mincash ($5,000 each) and then a special hand was dealt between them, which definitively decided the bubble.
The dealer placed 74AT5 on the table and one of the players, Robert Lipkin, turned the nuts in the showdown with86. In 14 years of playing, Lipkin won the money six times, and this year, as the official bubble-boy of the tournament, in addition to the aforementioned $5,000, he also received a ticket to next year's Main Event. Last year's bubble-boy Kevin Campbell was a bit luckier this time, who was badly cut by pocket aces last year, but this year he was able to subdue the bubble and continues in the tournament. We are adding some memories from the last year´s bubble burst just to refresh your memory.
1,299 players had successfully moved their stacks into the day 4, with many big names, including six champions - Koray Aldemir, Damian Salas, John Cynn, Chris Moneymaker, Ryan Riess and Greg Merson. The fourth day of the Main Event again awaited the players with ten hours of play, during which the field of 1,299 players was reduced to the last 380 by the end of the da. Of the mentioned six champions of this tournament, only Damian Salas and Koray Aldemir still continue to play.
A unique $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty event took place last night, during which a new addition to the WSOP Hall of Fame was also announced, who was chosen by a committee from a dozen nominees. The chosen one became none other than Layne Flack, who thus became the 61st member of this community and at the same time only the second to whom this award was given posthumously. The six-time WSOP champion left us last July at the age of 52, but everyone still remembers him as a great friend, entertainer and player.
source: pokernews.com