The Cooler
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Springville, NY's Bill Bramer is the ultimately cooler.
You hear the moans and groans coming from the players when he sits down in the box inside the Niagara Falls Poker Room at the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino. Everybody loves the guy, but they know what's coming.
Bramer has been dealing out more than anyone's fair share of bad beats since he started dealing poker at the Seneca Gaming & Entertainment Salamanca Poker Room more than 12 years ago, and here at the sister property in Niagara Falls for the past four.
If there's a river that will crush your soul, somehow Bramer always finds a way to bring it out of the deck. When he sits down at a tournament table, somebody is about to get up. Practically all he has to do is walk by a table, cash or tournament, and one player or another is going to go broke.
The fun loving 58-year-old former machinist loves the job, and definitely doesn't enjoy dealing out other people's misery all the time.
"Unless they're mean to me," he told PokerNews. "Then maybe in secret."
In truth, Bramer says understand why some people get up and leave the table when he sits down, and often get a little miffed with him. He is a cooler and he knows it.
"They get over it after a while," he said. "They know it's not my fault, that's the way the cards fall sometimes. That's just poker."