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  The World Poker Tour is all about dramatic poker. The blind levels are fast and aggressive, the buy-in is usually $10,000 or as much as $25,000, the final TV tables are only six handed instead of 10 handed and the show is heavily edited to emphasize the drama. But none of that was necessary in the case of Bill Edler.



  Before, Bill had cashed multiple times although he had never made a final table. As a professional poker player and former poker room manager, Bill knew his way around the poker tournament. That was why when, earlier in the 2008 Gulf Coast Poker Championship event, he was down to two small chips, he did not give up. He played that hand and won, and he played the next hand and won, and he kept that up until he built back respectable chips.



  In the end that tenacity is what led him to the final table. He was facing off against David Robbins, whom he had just taken for a huge amount of money. In this hand David moved all in in the dark, for over $280,000. He was disgusted and trying to get lucky himself. Bill looked at his hand and saw that he was holding:






... and made the call. David finally looked at his hand and saw it wasn't all bad - at least there were two live cards. His cards were:






... The flop hit:







... the turn hit:





... and the river hit:





... He had done it - Bill had made the greatest comeback in World Poker Tour history, winning $796,237 at the Gulf Coast Poker Championship event.