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. 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. Eyes of the poker community were all set upon Lederer who used to be one of them, and who betrayed their trust.
This news was not welcomed by the poker community, who saw Lederer as one of the principal guilty parties in the entire affair and wanted to see justice. The Professor, who was clearly no longer welcome on the circuit, disappeared from the public life, and his last live tournament appearance, according to Hendon Mob , happened in early On May 20, , Howard Lederer published a statement of apology to the entire poker community, admitting his role and responsibility in the demise of Full Tilt.
With a strong public outcry against his presence in the poker rooms around the world, The Professor is no doubt aware that it would be an extremely unpleasant experience, to say the least. We can only guess about what the future holds. A lifelong poker player who moved online in , Josh founded Beat The Fish in to help online poker players make more-informed decisions on where to play and how to win once they got there. He hopes to counter the rampant dishonesty in online gaming media with objective reviews and relevant features.
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