Everyone's Looking to Beat the Odds
Bruel has acted in dozens of films and recorded several best-selling albums. His 2002 CD of duets Entre Deux sold over two million copies in France. He won his WSOP bracelet in 1998 in a $5,000 Limit Hold'em event.
Bruel is sitting near the large screen television on which is playing a replay of the Buster Douglas-Mike Tyson heavyweight title fight from 1990 where Douglas scored one of the biggest, most unexpected upsets in sports history. Bruel is chatting with his table mates about having seen Tyson fight various times, though none was at that fight in Tokyo when Douglas shocked the world. Douglas was over a 40-to-1 underdog in that one.
Kind of an appropriate backdrop for an event where, really, everyone -- even the established champs and former bracelet holders -- is an underdog to win.