Meinders Moves Ahead

Brian Meinders appears to be our chip leader at the moment, having pushed out past the 400,000-chip mark. Sitting to his left (at what is presently a five-handed table) are Layne Flack and Bill Edler.

We just saw Edler open with a raise to 4,100 from under the gun. He had placed his cards out before his stack as he did, and the dealer almost grabbed them before Edler stopped him. It folded around to Flack, and when he called from the big blind, Edler joked that maybe it would've been better if his cards had been dragged into the muck.

But after the {J-Diamonds}