Howard Lederer
Nicknamed ‘The Professor’, Howard Lederer is a championship poker star with 2 World Series of Poker bracelets and 2 World Poker Tour titles to his name. He was also named the 2003 World Poker Tour Player of the Year.Howard got his start in professional gaming, interestingly enough, not in poker but in chess. Poker only entered his field of awareness after college, in the back room of a New York chess club where he was introduced to the game that brought him the riches and fame he enjoys today. From that moment on Lederer spent between 70 and 80 hours each week for two years solid learning the game, leaving 9 or out 10 poker tables empty-handed.
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It wasn’t until Howard Lederer joined a group of poker players at New York’s Maifair Club who were experimenting with the game of No Limit Hold’em that his “luck” started turning around. Despite their diversity of experience playing poker, all the members of this group were as new to No Limit Hold’em as Howard, making for a synergistic learning opportunity. From mid-afternoon to early morning the voracious group would play, play, play - gathering together at the bar after each game to discuss and analyze it.
In 1993, The Professor felt confident enough in his poker-playing ability to make the big leap from The Big Apple to Sin City, the very heart of gambling itself. Once there, Lederer took Las Vegas by storm, rapidly improving his game to the point where, just one year later, in 1994, he won a place in the Poker Hall of Fame (his first of two such honors) winning the $2500 No Limit Deuce to 7 Draw Poker event in that year’s Hall of Fame Poker Classic. He earned his second induction the very next year defending that title.
Five years later, in 2000, Howard Lederer earned his first WSOP gold bracelet, this for $5000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo. The following year he had his second WSOP win, defending his title in the same event.
On a roll now, The Professor then took the 2002 World Poker Tour Championship at Foxwoods. A year after that, he took the $5000 Limit Hold’em title at the 2003 WPT Poker Million cruise.
Now he was really picking up steam, winning the 2003 Bellagio 5-Star World Poker Classic $2500 No Limit Hold’em title the very next month, then winning the same event as well as the $5000 Pot Limit Omaha title at the following year’s Bellagio 5-Star World Poker Classic.
Howard “The Professor” Lederer is one of the most revered poker players today, and is a valued mentor to poker players everywhere: online at FullTilt.net, on TV on Fox Sports Network’s “Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament”, and in person at his very own Poker Fantasy Camp.
When he’s not playing poker, Howard also enjoys playing golf. He is an avid Grateful Dead fan, having attended over 125 shows. And he’s a loving and faithful brother to poker star sibling Annie Duke.
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