The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King by Michael Craig

Author:Michael Craig [CRAIG, MICHAEL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: GAM004000
ISBN: 9780446539630
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

After a disappointing World Series in which he put forth little effort and had no positive results, Howard Lederer decided to change his approach to tournament poker. Other than the tradition of the no-limit championship, he had gradually cut himself off from the tournament world to focus on cash games. Though he did not regret, and in fact relished, the time spent playing the biggest games in the world with legends like Doyle Brunson and Chip Reese, he wondered if he was missing out on something by losing touch with tournament poker. More important, was he about to miss out on something?

He had no specific expectations for how the World Poker Tour would turn out. Still nearly a year away from actually showing up on television, it was little more than an attempt to organize and slightly expand the number of big no-limit hold ’em tournaments. But he sensed it could be the Next Big Thing and if it was, he wanted a piece. He also wanted to improve on his dismal record in the main event of the World Series: fifth place in his first try, then fifteen consecutive finishes out of the money. Lederer decided to play all the major no-limit tournaments between that summer and the 2003 World Series of Poker, and take stock afterward.

In November 2002, in the sixth event of the World Poker Tour, Lederer’s efforts bore fruit. Howard won the $10,000 buy-in World Poker Finals at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. He defeated eighty-eight other players to win $320,000, including a tough final table featuring Phil Ivey (who won three World Series events that spring), MIT-Harvard-educated engineer-

lawyer-poker player Andy Bloch, and Las Vegas tournament pro Layne Flack.

After twenty years in poker, Howard Lederer was about to become an overnight sensation.

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