Friday 23 November 2007

HOWARD LEDERER

It grew in the city of New Hampshire, her family practiced all type of letter games and Howard grew in this atmosphere. Its challenge consisted of defeating its father whenever it could.To the 18 years, it left the university and it was transferred to New York to continue with one of his passions, the chess. In a quarter of bottom of his favorite club it knows a room of poker, during two years wildly played –de 70 80 hours weekly -, it worked during the day and it played by the nights, was a loser. It had some problems due to his prolonged sessions and little dream, decided to play less and to sleep but, obtained this way great improvements in its game.Howard obtains the great jump when it happens to play in the Club Mayfar de New York, this era a club of Bridge and Backgammon where the best players of the world met, was the decade of the 80 and it was begun to experiment with Texas Hold’em, happened to form a circle where the games began to 16:00 hs and finished to 2:00 hs, moment at which all happened to the bar to comment out of the plays of the day. The comradeship was a source of inestimable learning, all were relatively new in the game, but the ideas arose freely and helped to grow in their knowledge; in this group they were Give Harrington, Steve Zolotow, Jay Heimowitz, and Erik Seidel.To teach poker to its sister Annie Duke, also supported greatly its strategy. Annie played during the day and during afternoon it made questions on the game, its sharpness generated deep analyses but and a positive result for both.Its next step went to change itself to Fertile valleys in 1993, where game of high bets was dedicated to play tables cash, until year 2002, moment which the WPT is transformed into a monthly competition.Lederer is an aggressive player tight, known in the world of the poker with the nickname “El Profesor”, famous by his glance it fixes and sharp, one of the great ones as far as the reading of adversaries treats.He is a player whom we will not listen complaining the color or full that his adversary has obtained in river, is not of this type.Tremendously disinterested with his knowledge, it has written several books, it has made commentaries day to day of his participation and style in WSOP of year 2003, makes complete and exhaustive commentaries on plays that have done in the past.It has two bracelets WSOP, before obtaining first was in 13 final tables.