Photo courtesy of Bluff Magazine	Born :	Concord, New Hampshire
	Residence :	U.S.A, Las Vegas NV
	Nick Name:	"The Professor"
	Career Highlights:	Howard Lederer has two WSOP Bracelets; two WPT wins, and more than 2.7 million dollars in tournament winnings.

Howard Lederer Facts

• Howard’s sister is professional poker player Annie Duke.
• Doyle Brunson gave Howard the nick name “Bubba”, which was later shortened to “Bub” when Howard lost over 100 pounds from gastric bypass surgery.
• Howard has been a long time vegetarian but won a $10,000 bet when he ate a cheeseburger without getting sick.

Bio

Nicknamed “The Professor” for his cool analytical demeanor at the poker table, Howard Lederer is one of today’s most recognized poker players. The “Professor’s” recent celebrity status is due to a combination of WPT and WSOP tournament successes as well as his commentating work for Fox Sports. Howard also has a line of instructional videos and runs the Howard Lederer Fantasy Camp that further adds credence to his “Professor” nickname.

Before Howard was one of the top poker players in the country, he was one of the top young chess players in New York. While playing in the NY chess clubs, Lederer stumbled across poker being played for relatively small stakes. Howard switched his focus from chess to poker but was not immediately successful. In fact Howard was constantly going broke and would often have to borrow money in order to rebuild his bank roll in the smaller limit games. Playing at the Mayfair Club with fellow future pros Dan Harrington and Erick Seidel, Howard started to improve and soon became a consistent winner. In 1994 Howard moved out to Las Vegas in search of higher stakes action.

Throughout the rest of the 90’s Howard continued to be a winner at the Vegas cash games and even dabbled in some of the World Series of Poker tournaments. In 2000 Howard started to focus more on tournaments and won the WSOP Omaha 8 Hi Lo $5000 tournament. The following year the Professor won the $5000 Ducs to Seven Low Draw event at the World Series of Poker. Since then Howard has made numerous final tables at the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour, including two WPT wins.

When Lederer is not at the poker table he can be found providing commentary for FSN’s Poker Superstars broadcasts as well as playing online at FullTiltPoker.com, a site that he helped develop. Howard lives in Las Vegas with his wife Suzie and their son Mattias.