For a poker player, luck may be defined by how often your aces hold up. For a reporter, luck is scoring interesting dinner break company. Dinner with Bill Edler is like making an inside straight draw.
Edler recently won the Heads-Up Championship at the Crystal Park Casino. But he said that the victory also had its costs. The next tournament he played was Rincon where he said he just couldn't make the adjustment from his heads-up frame of mind. He said, "I played way too cute. I assumed my opponents had nothing; which is a predictably dangerous assumption at a full table." Luckily, Edler has reclaimed his full table mojo and is sitting with a stack of 369,000 here at the Commerce; a stack he is looking forward to wield as the bubble approaches.
Rumor has it that the famous Bustout dealer, formerly employed at the Commerce Casino will not be used tonight. Details of this infamous lady have been kept shrouded in titilating secrecy but it is said that she was sure fire bet to bust out at least three male players in her first round.
Just before the players broke for dinner, Steve Brecher was eliminated when his pocket queens ran into pocket aces. After surviving most of Day 1 with a micro-stack under 5K, Brecher made an amazing comeback late that night and rode it all the way to Day 3.
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