 Poker Pro Found Dead
A professional poker
player and his wife
were found dead
Friday in their home
near Oakland,
California, USA, and
authorites are
investigating the
deaths as homicides.
According to media
reports, Ernest
Scherer Jr., 60, and
his wife, Charlene
Abendroth, 57, were
found dead Friday
morning shortly
before 1 a.m. in
their home at the
Castlewood Country
Club in Pleasanton,
California, USA,
near Oakland.
“The deaths are
being investigated
as homicides,” said
Sgt. J.D. Nelson of
the Alameda County
Sheriff’s
Department.
A homicide is a
killing, and may or
may not be a murder.
Some homicides are
murders, while other
homicides are
suicides or
accidents.
When Scherer’s
daughter was unable
to reach her parents
by telephone, she
contacted someone at
the country club who
went to the Scherers’
home, found the
bodies and called
authorities, media
reports said.
According to
tournament records,
Scherer has finished
in the money in six
poker tournaments in
his career, winning
a total of $25,108.
His biggest win came
at last year’s World
Series of Poker (WSOP)
in Las Vegas, where
he finished in 18th
place in an Omaha
tourney and won
$7,775.
At that same WSOP,
he finished in 47th
place in another
Omaha tournament and
won $3,956, and in
142nd place in a
no-limit Texas hold
‘em tourney and won
$3,792.
Scherer’s son,
Ernest Scherer III,
29, of Los Angeles,
is also a
professional poker
player, and a much
better one than his
father was.
According to
tournament records,
Scherer’s son has
finished in the
money in 23 poker
tournaments in his
career, winning a
total of $298,847.
Among his biggest
wins was at the 2006
WSOP, where he
finished in eighth
place in a limit
Texas hold ‘em
tournament and won
$34,362.
He also moneyed at
two other ‘06 WSOP
events.
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Tom Somach,
www.pokerhelper.com
Originally published
March 15, 2008 11:56
pm EST
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