Controversial poker player Layne Flack was a high-profile absentee from this weekend's NBC Heads-Up Championship after getting himself arrested late Friday night. The six-time WSOP bracelet winner was pulled over by police on his way home from a party and was charged with speeding, drink driving and failing to yield to an emergency vehicle.

Flack spent the night in a Las Vegas jail cell and had to miss out on the prestigious NBC tournament where stand-by David Oppenheim took his place.

This latest setback follows a number of controversial moments for the outspoken Flack in recent months. First, he openly criticised the legendary Doyle Brunson's WSOP record, claiming that bracelets won in the 1970s and '80s didn't mean as much as ones won today.