Career
He has a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2007 Edler cashed in the money for the first time in the $10,000 Number Limit Hold"em Main Event Championship coming in 23rd place out of a field of 6,358 players, winning $333,490. Edler has also had success in heads-up playing, winning the inaugural $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up Poker Championship in Compton, California in 2007.
At this event he set the record for the greatest come back in World Poker Tour history.
With only 17 players left out of 256 entries with only 2 tables left, Edler had only 2 x $1,000 chips left and was unable to meet the blinds of $4,000/$8,000. Edler also finished 6th at the March 2007 Bay 101 Shooting Star WPT tournament, winning $160,000, and has cashed in six other WPT events.
As of 2010, Edler"s total live tournament winnings exceed $3,425,000. His 6 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,306,489 of those winnings.
