 Another Pot Limit Omaha-event has reached its climax, this time it was time for the $1500 Pot-Limit Omaha W/Rebuys. With 320 buy-ins and 1350 rebuys and add-ons, the prizepool was filled with over 2.4 mln dollar. Some familiar faces on the final table, Kyle Kloeckner, our chipleader already cashed in 2nd at event 24, Ted Forrest came 2nd in event 16 and with his 5 bracelets, he doesn’t need much of an introduction. He actually had 6, he once bought a WSOP bracelet for $1500 from Hamid Dastmalchi (the 1992 Main Event bracelet!) for $1500! Dastmalchi was complaining "They say it’s worth $5,000, but I’d take $1,500 for it". Forrest of course instacalled and got the bracelet  . That's one of the 2 bracelets he still has, 3 of the other bracelets were stolen from him, while he gave the other one to his daughter.
The other 5-times-bracelet winner at the table doesn't really need an introduction as well, Layne Flack's success at the WSOP started 10 years ago, when he reached his first WSOP final table, and now it's his 13th. Still, 5 wins out of 12 aint bad at all. Phil Hellmuth for example has 40 final tables and 11 bracelets, but hey, that's just because he always gets outdrawn...
Frank Vizza (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) -- 378,000
Dario Alioto (Palermo, Italy) -- 659,000
Tim West (Los Altos, California) -- 187,000
Daniel Makowsky (Zurich, Switzerland) -- 493,000
Kyle Kloeckner (St. Louis, Missouri) -- 845,000
Jacobo Fernandez (Hollywood, Florida) -- 348,000
Layne Flack (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 601,000
Michael Guzzardi (Melbourne, Australia) -- 751,000
Ted Forrest (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 757,000
Kyle Kloeckner wasn’t able to do as well as before, he went out 6th when his deuces full of kings got beaten by Flack's sixes full of deuces. Meanwhile, Layne Flack continued to gather chips, also those of Ted Forrest. He got shortstack and when he got all-in against Makowski, he was up against top set, with only a gutshot + overcards on the flop. Forrest went out 5th, so the 5-times-bracelet-winner stays the owner of 2 remaining bracelets. Dario Alioto was out in about the same hand, he had an openended against Layne Flack, but wasn’t able to catch anything against the Flack's aces. Jacobo Fernandez, who's on a sick roll during this WSOP (he finished 4th, 3rd, 12th and 25th already!) became top of the WSOP Player of the Year-standing, when he got busted out 3rd. 3 final tables, 5 cashes, but still no win, when he got all-in on a flop of    with his     . Flack hit the jackpot with his     and obviously instacalled. No help, which meant Layne Flack was heads-up against Daniel Makowsky, with about a 6:1 chiplead!
Not much later, both players were all-in, Flack with kings, Makowski with A-K-4-4, no help and Layne Flack wins his 6th bracelet out of 13 final tables! He had about 20 rebuys during day one but I guess he got his money back now. 5 years after his last bracelet, he wins one again, and $577,725
Place Name Prize
1st Layne Flack $577,725
2nd Daniel Makowsky $355,050
3rd Jacobo Fernandez $222,659
4th Dario Alioto $180,534
5th Ted Forrest $144,427
6th Kyle Kloeckner $114,338
7th Michael Guzzardi $90,267
8th Tim West $72,213
9th Frank Vizza $54,160
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