Prop Bets with Layne Flack
In light of all of the prop bets John Juanda has been involved in lately, Allen Kessler, Layne Flack, and a few others have started discussing the physical prowess of Flack.
"How many pull-ups do you think you could do?" yelled Kessler over to Flack, as the two are seated one table apart from each other.
"Right now?" asked Flack, looking to the ceiling and thinking about it for a few seconds. "Maybe 15."
"I'll take the under!" shouted someone from Kessler's table.
After a bit of back and forth, Kessler turned to our reporter and asked how many he thought Flack could do.
"Does he get six months to train like Juanda?" we asked.
"No, right now," responded Kessler.
"I don't know, I might take the over depending on how much is riding on it," we said. "[Flack] might have some sneaky strength."
"You hear that, Layne?" said Kessler. "He said he'd take the over."
"No way, I couldn't do 15," said Flack. "I said I could probably do 12 right now."
Then, Flack played a hand and then hopped out of his seat to head over to Kessler's table to tell a story of a different prop bet. This one involved Nenad Medic when he and Flack were over in Cyprus together.
"You want to hear about a prop bet, listen to this," Flack said. "I was over in Cyprus with Nenad Medic — you know Nenad, right? We were betting on red or black flops. If your color hit, the other guy had to jump down and do 10 push-ups right there. If you scooped, then the other guy had to do 20 — on every flop! By the dinner break we were up to like 300 push-ups each. By that time, I started pleading, 'Please, please, please be black!' on each flop."