FREE Background Report. Check Reputation Score for Howard Lederer in Newtown, PA - View Criminal & Court Records Photos Address, Emails & Phone Numbers Personal Review $250K+ Income & Net Worth. “I appreciated Howard Lederer’s willingness to own it in a public statement,” well-known professional poker player Daniel Negreanu said Sunday. “I’m disappointed and ashamed of Chris for showing up. Howard's competitive nature was encouraged at a young age by his father, Richard Lederer, who never gave Howard a free ride during the heated family battles. Richard, a well-known American author, teacher and linguist, was Howard's first opponent in the game that would eventually become his life-long passion.

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Following the scandal Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Howard Lederer, and CEO Ray Bitar were all castigated for their roles in players getting ripped off. But in Matusow’s opinion though, Ferguson did nothing wrong apart from consenting to the wrong guys running a business where he was the majority shareholder.

Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer is one of the most prominent and well known member of the former Full Tilt Poker team.

He was a leading shareholder and director of the company and is now probably the most loathed man in the poker world due him shouldering a lot of the blame for the events of Black Friday.

He is known throughout the poker world and in years past he was very much in the public eye with regular appearances as a commentator / expert on a number of TV poker shows.

Howard was heavily involved in the development of Full Tilt Poker right from the very start and had an input in shaping the room into the hugely successful and popular room that it is today. He is no longer involved in Full Tilt since they were taken over by Pokerstars after Black Friday.

Another Graduate of the Mayfair Club, New York

Growing up in Concord, New Hampshire, Howard and his sister (Annie Duke – another well known professional poker player) learnt to play cards at an early age, largely due to their father Richard Lederer. Richard was a competitive character and this trait quickly passed onto Howard and Annie.

Howard was due to attend Columbia College in New York City, but decided to take a year out to follow his ambition of becoming a professional Chess player.

It was during this year and in pursuit of his Chess dream that he stumbled across the Mayfair Club in New York. This famous club which also produced other great poker players such as Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel, was the re-introduction to poker that Lederer needed and in particular he was introduced to Texas Holdem, the game that was taking over the modern poker world.

Howard was a well known face at the tables after being one of the early TV stars of the poker boom

Howard soon became part of an elite group of players who formed at this club. This group would play poker all evening and then after they finished playing would all go off and drink at the bar whilst discussing the evening’s poker and discussing better strategy.

Towards the end of the eighties Howard was playing in higher stakes games and had outgrown the games he had been a regular at. It was at this time that he moved to Las Vegas to seek out these higher stakes games.

It was also around this time that he went on to teach his sister Annie Duke who also went on to move to Las Vegas together with her Husband later that year. Annie has gone on to become one of the most successful female poker players of all time and both Howard and Annie hold a record as the first brother-sister combination to make it to the same WSOP final table.

Lederer – The Professor

The nickname of ‘The Professor’ was largely given to Howard as a result of his analytical and mathematical approach to Poker, this probably as a result of his history as a championship level Chess player and Backgammon player, giving him a good foundation for this style of play.

Despite being nicknamed ‘The Professor’ and being recognised as one of the most astute and clever players around, the ironic fact is that Lederer never did find his way to college after taking a year out.

During the 1990′s Howard really became a feared opponent and became known to everybody on the poker scene. During this period Lederer cleaned up at the high stakes cash games and built a secure financial future for his family.

It wasn’t until 2002 that Lederer came more into the public eye when during the poker boom he focused more on the big tournaments than the cash games. During 2002 and 2003 he won two World Poker Tour events just as the WPT was at the height of popularity, the 2002 $10,000 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Resort in Connecticut and the Party Poker Million in 2003. He was also awarded the WPT Player of the Year honour in Season 1 of the tour.

Howard was an star of the early series of the World Poker Tour which had huge audiences on TV

Lederer also has an impressive record at the World Series of Poker making eight final tables and winning two bracelets in the 2000 $5,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo and the 2001 $5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw events.

Howard Lederer's Major Title Record

WSOP Bracelets

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Howard the Business Man

Howard has proved himself as an astute businessman as well as a world class poker player and developed his profile and his off the table work through developing a series of instructional poker DVDs and through his appearances on many poker shows as a commentator / expert.

Lederer was also a founding member and major shareholder of Tiltware LLC which is the company that launched Full Tilt Poker. He was known as one of the three main owners of Full Tilt Poker along with Chris Ferguson and Ray Bitar who were all directors of the company and active in building Full Tilt into a billion dollar company.

Unfortunately their world was turned upside down when the Full Tilt Poker website was shut down and confiscated by the US DOJ and Ray Bitar (the CEO) was indicted on charges of bank fraud and illegal gambling on the basis that Full Tilt Poker had continued to accept US players after the UIEGA was passed in 2006. Lederer and Ferguson would also be targeted by the US Government and civil cases brought against them for their role in the management of Full Tilt Poker.

The poker world still holds Howard responsible for the events that nearly bankrupted Full Tilt Poker after Black Friday.

These events almost brought Full Tilt Poker to bankruptcy after it was revealed that they did not hold enough cash to repay players balances due to cash that had been intercepted by the US government or stolen by unscrupulous payment processors. There is also a big question mark over the distributions made to Full Tilt owners during the preceding years which totalled $440 million, with some claiming that this was players money distributed.

FTP had to shut down operations with a massive cash shortfall and left player balances frozen and locked on the site. Lederer went to work to try and find a buyer to take over the ailing company and provide the funds required to repay players.

This went on for over a year, with players unable to access their funds. Eventually a deal was struck between Full Tilt Poker, The US Department of Justice and Pokerstars, where Lederer and all the other owners of Full Tilt surrendered the assets to the US DOJ and Pokerstars purchased the company from them in a deal worth $731 million.

In the end everything worked out ok, The US DOJ got their “fine” for the supposed illegal activities, the players got their money back (although some US players are still waiting for the DOJ to repay their balances) and Pokerstars earned a lot of respect in the poker world for rescuing Full Tilt Poker and getting all it’s players paid. Since then Pokerstars have re-launched Full Tilt Poker who are once again one of the largest poker sites in the world, second only to their parent company.

This was Howard Lederer’s avatar on Full Tilt Poker

Lederer settled his civil lawsuit with the US government in December 2012 surrendering assets and cash worth many tens of millions. In September 2012 after the company take over was complete, Howard gave an interview series to PokerNews called “The Lederer Files” in which he broke his silence about all the events that had gone on.

This is the first of a seven part series of interviews Howard gave which broke his silence after the rescue of Full Tilt by Pokerstars was completed

It may take some time before Lederer is accepted back into the poker community, he has been spotted a couple of times playing at private tables in Las Vegas casino’s but he has not been forgiven yet for the part he played in the mismanagement of Full Tilt Poker. Who knows, we may one day see his return but for the moment he has stayed away from large poker tournaments and events.

Howard Henry Lederer (born October 30, 1963) is an American professional poker player.^[1]

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Alan Goehring

Alan Goehring (born February 21, 1962) is an American retired junk bond analyst and trader from Henderson, Nevada.

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Annie Duke

Anne LaBarr Duke (née Lederer; September 13, 1965) is an American professional poker player and author.

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BARGE

BARGE, the Big August Rec.Gambling Excursion, is a yearly convention held in Las Vegas during the first weekend of August.

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Bruce Buffer

Bruce Anthony Buffer (born May 21, 1957) is the official octagon announcer for UFC events, introduced on broadcasts as the 'Veteran Voice of the Octagon'.

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Chip Jett

Charles McRae 'Chip' Jett (born September 22, 1974 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Chris Ferguson

Christopher Philip Ferguson (born April 11, 1963) is an American professional poker player.

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Cindy Margolis

Cynthia Dawn 'Cindy' Margolis (born October 1, 1965) is an American glamor spokesmodel and actress.

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Crown Australian Poker Championship

The Australian Poker Championship, commonly known as Aussie Millions, is a series of poker tournaments held at the Crown Casino, in Melbourne, Australia.

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Dan Harrington

Dan Harrington (born December 6, 1945) is a professional poker player, best known for winning the Main Event at the 1995 World Series of Poker.

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Epic Poker League

The Epic Poker League was a series of poker tournaments which took place in 2011, organised by Federated Sports + Gaming.

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Erik Seidel

Erik Seidel (born November 6, 1959) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title.

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Face the Ace

Face the Ace is a poker-themed game show on the NBC television network first airing August 1, 2009.

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Freddy Deeb

Kassem Ibrahim 'Freddy' Deeb (born November 27, 1955 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a professional poker player who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 19.

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Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker is an Irish online poker card room and online casino that opened in June 2004.

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Full Tilt Poker Championship at Red Rock

Full Tilt Poker Championship at Red Rock (also FullTiltPoker.Net Championship at Red Rock) was a seven-week televised shootout poker tournament played at the Red Rock Resort Spa and Casino in Summerlin near Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Gabe Kaplan

Gabriel Weston Kaplan (born March 31, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, poker commentator, and professional poker player.

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Gerard Jerry Del Colliano Jr

Gerard “Jerry” Del Colliano (born April 6, 1974) is an American entrepreneur and publisher of online luxury publications.

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Gutshot Poker Club

The Gutshot Poker Club (also known as The Gutshot Poker Collective or simply The Gutshot) was a poker club, bar, restaurant and internet cafe located on Clerkenwell Road, London, England.

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Howard

Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old Norse Hávarðr, which means 'high guard'.

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Index of poker articles

This is an alphabetical list of poker topics.

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Jay Cohen

Jay Cohen (born 1968) is the co-founder and former CEO of World Sports Exchange (WSEX), an online gambling company from 1996 until July 24, 2000, when he was the first United States citizen to be convicted in US Federal Court for violation of the Federal Wire Act for operating an online gambling company from a jurisdiction where it was legal and regulated (Antigua).

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Jay Heimowitz

Jay B. Heimowitz (born December 26, 1937) is an American poker player from Bethel, New York.

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Jeff Lisandro

Jeffrey Lisandro (born in Perth) is an Italo-Australian professional poker player, now residing in Salerno, Italy.

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Jennifer Harman

Jennifer C. Harman (born November 29, 1964, in Reno, Nevada) is an American professional poker player.

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Katy Lederer

Katherine 'Katy' Lederer is an American poet and author of the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers.

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Las Vegas (TV series)

Las Vegas is an American television series broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003, to February 15, 2008.

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Learn from the Pros

Learn from the Pros was a television program sponsored by the online poker website Full Tilt Poker, which aired on Fox Sports Net a number of times during each week.

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Lederer

Lederer is a surname of German origin, meaning 'leatherworker'.

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List of Columbia University alumni

This is a sorted list of notable persons who are alumni of Columbia University, New York City.

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List of Columbia University alumni and attendees

This is a partial list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University.

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List of I Bet You episodes

The following is an episode list for the MOJO HD game show I Bet You.

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List of people from New Hampshire

The following are people who were born, raised, or who gained significant prominence for living in U.S. state of New Hampshire.

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List of St. Paul's School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of St. Paul's School.

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Mayfair Club

The Mayfair Club was a cardroom in New York City.

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Mickey Appleman

Mark 'Mickey' Appleman (born July 15, 1945) is an American professional poker player, sports bettor, and sports handicapper now living in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

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National Heads-Up Poker Championship

The National Heads-Up Poker Championship was an annual poker tournament held in the United States and produced by the NBC television network.

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No Limit (2006 film)

No Limit: A Search for the American Dream on the Poker Tournament Trail is a 2006 documentary film about the professional poker tournament circuit.

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O'Neil Longson

O'Neil Longson is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, who has won three bracelets at the World Series of Poker.

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October 30

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Partypoker

partypoker (formerly stylized PartyPoker) is an online poker card room.

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Poker After Dark

Poker After Dark is an hour-long poker television program on NBC.

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Poker Million

The Poker Million has been a televised European poker tournament since its inception in November 2000.

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Poker on television

Poker television programs had been extremely popular, especially in North America and Europe, following the poker boom.

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Poker Players Alliance

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is an American nonprofit Interest group formed to emphasize the rights of poker players, and to protect the players' liberties.' The PPA formed to serve as an advocacy group to Washington to establish rights and protections for U.S. poker players.

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Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament

The Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament was a series of no limit Texas hold 'em poker tournaments.

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Poker Superstars season 1 results

Below are the results of season 1 of Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament.

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PokerNews

PokerNews is a website dedicated to providing poker enthusiasts with a place they can find industry news, live tournament coverage, strategy, player interviews and videos, podcasts, and information on bonuses and freeroll tournaments available at online poker rooms.

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Pro-Am Poker Equalizer

The Pro-Am Poker Equalizer is a televised poker tournament in which professional poker players play Texas hold 'em against celebrities which began airing on ESPN in January 2007.

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Professor (disambiguation)

A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university.

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Proposition bet

In gambling, a 'proposition bet' (prop bet, prop, novelty, or a side bet) is a bet made regarding the occurrence or non-occurrence during a game (usually a gambling game) of an event not directly affecting the game's final outcome.

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Richard Lederer

Richard Lederer (born May 26, 1938) is an American author, speaker, and teacher.

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Ron Rose

Ron Rose (born September 4, 1944 in Vancouver, Washington) is an American poker player from Dayton, Ohio, and a two time World Poker Tour (WPT) Champion with a World Series of Poker bracelet.

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Scott Pinsker

Scott Pinsker is a filmmaker, talk-show host, author and celebrity publicist.

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Steve Zolotow

Steve Zolotow is an American businessman and professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada.

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The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time is a 2005 book by Michael Craig detailing billionaire Andrew Beal's series of high-stakes poker games with Las Vegas' top professional poker players.

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Triple Crown (Poker)

In poker the term Triple Crown is used for winning a poker title on the three major poker tours: The World Series of Poker (WSOP), World Poker Tour (WPT) and up to 2016 the European Poker Tour (EPT).

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Underground poker

Underground poker is poker played in a venue that is not operating in accordance with the gaming laws of its jurisdiction.

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United States v. Scheinberg

United States v. Scheinberg, 10 Cr.

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Vince Burgio

Vincent Burgio (born in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American professional poker player based in West Hills, California.

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World Poker Tour

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is the premier name in internationally televised gaming and entertainment with brand presence in land-based tournaments, television, online and mobile.

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World Poker Tour season 1 results

Below are the results of season 1 of the World Poker Tour (2002–2003).

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World Series of Poker Europe

The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker tournaments outside the United States.

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World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners

Below is a list of all poker players who have won multiple World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, together with the year(s) in which the bracelets were won.

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World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions

The World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions is an invitational freeroll poker event.

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1987 World Series of Poker

The 1987 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.

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1993 World Series of Poker

The 1993 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.

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2000 World Series of Poker

The 2000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe.

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2001 World Series of Poker

The 2001 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe.

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2003 World Series of Poker

The 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe.

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2008 World Series of Poker Europe

The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker tournaments outside the United States.

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2008 World Series of Poker results

The 2008 World Series of Poker was the 39th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP).

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2009 World Series of Poker Europe

The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker tournaments outside the United States.

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2010 World Series of Poker

The 2010 World Series of Poker was the 41st annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, and ran from May 28 to July 17.

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2010 World Series of Poker results

Below are the results for the 2010 World Series of Poker.

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