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Howard Lederer

As a player there are few that are better than the prolific Howard Lederer.  Known as The Professor because of his overall demeanor when playing, Howard Lederer is one of the few players that is actually feared at the tables because he can be an aggressive and very powerful player to say the least.  This has not always been so as Lederer did not start out as a poker champion, he instead moved his talents to chess.  While Lederer was born in Concord, New Hampshire he moved to New York to study at Columbia University.  He was turned onto chess and quickly became a great player.  New York is full of chess clubs and Lederer spent as much time in them as possible. 

While playing in a chess club he was turned on to poker and learned to love the game very quickly as he found that reading the opponents was very much like playing chess.  This was that start that he needed and he moved up the ranks in the local scene, earning a fair amount of money before moving to Las Vegas to pursue high stakes poker as a living.  This was 1994 and he has remained in Vegas ever since, raking in the pots at the high stakes tables and making a name for himself.

As of 2005 Lederer has two World Series of Poker Bracelets, neither of which is from the main event.  He did however make it to the final table and placed fifth in the main event for 1997.  He has also made several nice finishes in the World Poker Tour and holds two titles from it.  This is nothing new to Lederer as he is marked as a winner and continues to move on whether he wins the gold or not.  A sore spot was the Tour Grand Prix when he was eliminated by Tony Guoga, made famous for his constant berating and belittling of other players.  Lederer refused to shake hands with the man, which nearly caused an international scene.

Besides being one of the finest poker players to ever live, Lederer is also a world class author and makes instructional videos to teach others about poker.  He has two sisters, one of whom is the now famous Annie Duke, also a champion poker player.  Katy Lederer wrote a book about growing up with a family of gamblers.  Lederer is an outspoken supporter of his siblings, especially Annie, as he once stepped into an altercation with Daniel Negreanu for making inappropriate comments about her.