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HOWARD LEDERER WINNER 2002 PARTYPOKER.COM MILLION III
They call him The Professor.
It's not because Howard Lederer is the son of college professor,
Richard Lederer, author of "Anguished English" an authoritative
tome on the eccentricities of the English language. It's because
of Howard Lederer's unique approach to professional tournament
poker - methodical, statistical and analytical - as if he was
dissecting the latest mathematical theory. Quiet and thoughtful,
he always appears to be calculating. Clearly his calculations
have paid off. Lederer won last year's PartyPoker.com Million
and the 2001 World Series of Poker. He is considered one of the
game's best high-stakes players.
Raised in the rarified air of academia, where the senior Lederer
was an instructor at a top prep school, St. Paul's School in New
Hamsphire, Howard was one of three siblings who have distinguished
themselves. His sister Annie Duke ranks alongside him as one of
the world's leading poker pros, and Katy Lederer, a noted poet,
recently published a memoir of living in the competitive Lederer
household: Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers. It was chess,
not poker, however that first captivated Howard.
Lederer attended St. Paul's and then began classes at the age
of 18 at Columbia University in New York City. But once in the
city, he was drawn to the downtown chess clubs and their unique
breed of oddball intellectuals. But he didn't start skipping classes
until he discovered real-life underground poker in New York, realistically
depicted in the film "Rounders." Lured by the high-risk
nature of the game, Lederer quickly made his mark and quit school
for good. For 10 years he made a living in the New York poker
back rooms until moving to Las Vegas in 1994 to make his income
in the major casinos. He now plays the circuit of high stakes
poker globally, including the World Poker events, and, of course,
the World Series of Poker, where he won his bracelet in 2001.
Poker is still a family business with Lederer; his wife Susan
manages the poker room at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
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