Drug industry 1, Perlmutter 0 in high-stakes poker
By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com ReporterU.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Golden) held his own in high-stakes poker Tuesday night - for a while, anyway.
Perlmutter headed to Coors Field for a round of poker with, among others, actor Ben Affleck, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), and Perlmutter's daughter.
The poker tournament, which required a $500 buy-in, raised money for Paralyzed Veterans of America.
Perlmutter won some hands early on. But an hour and a half in, his luck run out when he went up against a woman from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
Holding a king-high flush, Perlmutter said, "I'm think I'm going to take this gal's money so bad. So I go all in, and it's everything I have.
"And she has an ace-high flush. I have a king-high flush - I'm out of the game."
Affleck, Perlmutter said, was initially "very gregarious. ... And then we sat down at the poker table and hardly a word out of the guy."
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