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Howard Lederer (born in Concord, New Hampshire) is a professional poker player and brother of poker pro Annie Duke.
Lederer came from an academic background. His father, Richard Lederer, was a writer and linguist who taught at Saint Paul's Prep School in New Hampshire. Lederer was a young chess talent and after high school he moved to New York City, where he attended Columbia University. New York City is known for its chess clubs and at one of these clubs he discovered poker and eventually began playing at the Mayfair Club with other soon-to-be-famous players such as Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington.
In 1994 he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where he sought out higher stakes games. As of 2004, he has won 2 WSOP bracelets and 2 World Poker Tour titles.
Lederer is known as the "professor of poker" because of his demeanor and long history of wins.
Lederer has made an instructional poker video called Secrets of No Limit Hold'em and he runs the Howard Lederer Poker Fantasy Camp. He also cohosts a tournament poker show for Fox. His sister, Katy Lederer, wrote a book about the Lederer family, titled Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers.
He has two children and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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