The Poker Lab Rat

This dude is GOOD! Howard Lederer has claimed one of the most prestigious titles in tournament poker, the Aussie Millions $100K No-Limit Hold‘em Main event.

Lederer out-played what many would consider an elite field of 25 top poker professionals, that included fellow members of Team Full Tilt* Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch, Gus Hansen, Allen Cunningham, and John Juanda.

Having entered the final table as one of the short stacks, Lederer demonstrated great patience and timing to slowly accumulate chips to become the chip leader with just three competitors remaining. After starting heads-up play with a 2-1 chip advantage over second-place finisher Mark Teltscher, it took more than and an hour of heads-up play to take out the title and the $1.25 million first-place prize.

The final hand pitted Lederer’s two pair of Aces and Jacks against Teltschers two pair of 7s and 8s.

The victory is the largest single tournament payday Lederer has ever earned, bringing his career tournament earnings to nearly $5 million.

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*Team Full Tilt is a select group professional poker players, including Gus Hansen, Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Phil Gordon, John Juanda, Mike Matusow, Clonie Gowen, Jennifer Harman and Allen Cunningham who have collectively won 32 WSOP bracelets.

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