Howard Lederer Playing Live Poker Again

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Howard Lederer has been spotted playing live poker a few times recently. He was reportedly playing at Bobby's Room at the Bellagio and was also seen playing 400/800 at the Aria.

Guess it was just a matter of time before he ventured out into public again - maybe he feels after the interviews the ice was broken.

I wonder how long it will take for some kind of public incident to occur when someone sees him and goes ballistic.
 
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i give it 3 days before someone goes and does something.
 
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From pokerfuse.com, emphasis mine:

Lederer Makes Vegas Poker Room Rounds, Plays Aria High Stakes
By Dave Ferrara
October 10, 2012

Howard Lederer returned to the Las Vegas high-stakes poker scene again Tuesday night, sitting down at the 400-800 mix game at Aria.

One day after the former full tilt poker owner made an appearance in the "Big Game" in the private Bobby’s Room salon at the Bellagio, Lederer sat in the Ivey Room with Nick Schulman, David Oppenheim, Huck Seed and Chau Giang—all former Full Tilt representatives—and Doyle Brunson. Mike Matusow also made a brief appearance.

Lederer’s return to poker sparked buzz on several forums and social media sites. There were even reports that Bellagio and Aria received death threat phone calls after he arrived to play.

Both casinos planted security guards in front of their respective glass-encased high-stakes tables. Aria threatened to ban anyone who took a picture of Lederer in the Ivey Room.

Daniel Negreanu, who has a long-standing publicized mistrust and distaste for Lederer and his sister Annie Duke, responded to the public outcry on Twitter.

"Bellagio/Aria 'allowing’ Lederer/Duke to play if they choose is the right decision IMO," Negreanu said today. "I have no problem with playing poker with either of them. I don’t like either, but don’t have a problem facing them at a table."

He added: "Russ Hamilton regularly plays in Florida casinos. It’s not the responsibility of the casino to bar them. Lots of dirtbags play."

In recent interviews, Lederer expressed his desire to get back in the game, though he said the 2011 Black Friday seizures left him cash poor. The US Department of Justice has a civil suit against Lederer for more than $40m, and he has implied that some of his bank accounts may have been frozen by the Department of Justice as part of the ongoing case.

http://pokerfuse.com/news/live-and-online/lederer-making-vegas-poker-room-rounds-10-10/
 
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What's Annie Duke up to these days? I remember seeing her at the wsop couple years ago and she had a sexy lower back tattoo...sorry, Howard...
 
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You are not supposed to take pics of any of them in the poker room anyway.

I have no problem with the poker rooms letting him play - my problems are with him personally.
 
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You are not supposed to take pics of any of them in the poker room anyway.

I have no problem with the poker rooms letting him play - my problems are with him personally.

I totally agree. I think his showing up to play is the height of unpeakable arrogance.
 
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I know he's a big guy,,, but he may want to consider having a bodyguard(s),,, Someone will go off on him sooner or later. If he's not found guilty of something in a court of law,,, then I guess he's not to be blamed in the eye of the public. I guess time will tell.
 
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"cash poor" after BF....
Wish I was cash poor enough to sit at 400/800....
One day........lol.
 
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I wouldn't be surprised if Lederer plays in the wsop in 2013. Annie Duke played the WSOP this year even though a lot of players don't like her. I bet Howard would play too.

Even Erick Lindgren is more like E-Broke, I wouldn't be surprised if he still played in the wsop and big tournaments.
 
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I would have waited just a bit longer for the people to get paid back from the Justice department if I were him... but then I guess he's not the brightest bulb at the table these days...
 
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I know he's a big guy,,, but he may want to consider having a bodyguard(s),,, Someone will go off on him sooner or later. If he's not found guilty of something in a court of law,,, then I guess he's not to be blamed in the eye of the public. I guess time will tell.

Actually, if history is anything to go on then he'll probably be fine.

The poker community in general can talk a tough game, but it's rarely backed up with actions. Negreanu makes an excellent example: Russ Hamilton has been seen playing live in casinos and showing his face on Vegas golf courses and the like for years, and while people apparently have the occasional harsh word or two for him, reports are he's mostly left to his own devices.

You can argue that Lederer is probably a more recognisable figure than Hamilton and you could even argue that he's committed greater crimes against the poker community, so maybe that makes him a bigger target. But at the end of the day I just don't see the poker community getting violent with him.
 
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There is always someone who wants to take matters into their own hands.
Some moron who lost $100.00 on Full Tilt will try to do something stupid.

Just my 2¢

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IF anyone really cared they would speak with their money and let each casino know that if your gonna let such people as Hamilton Lederererererere and of them, then you refust to play in their casino. But if people who claim to have such dislike for the people, wsend a message and dont support card rooms they play in, then dont claim your hate for HL or RH for that fact. Support smaller cardrooms that would prefer real people not these fake people in their cardrooms. MONEY TALKS and if they want just LEDERREREREREREs playing in their casino, take your money somwhere else and make sure the cardroom knows why. MAKE THESE PHIRAHS THE OUTCASTS THEY ARE
 
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Even murderers and child molesters should have access to live poker....if they have such a thing in prison....
 
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"cash poor" after BF....
Wish I was cash poor enough to sit at 400/800....
One day........lol.

Yeah really! Shouldn't he be at the $1-$2 table after all this?

But I'm glad he's back at the tables where he's gonna git got.
 
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IF anyone really cared they would speak with their money and let each casino know that if your gonna let such people as Hamilton Lederererererere and of them, then you refust to play in their casino. But if people who claim to have such dislike for the people, wsend a message and dont support card rooms they play in, then dont claim your hate for HL or RH for that fact. Support smaller cardrooms that would prefer real people not these fake people in their cardrooms. MONEY TALKS and if they want just LEDERREREREREREs playing in their casino, take your money somwhere else and make sure the cardroom knows why. MAKE THESE PHIRAHS THE OUTCASTS THEY ARE

That might work... except again, the poker community has an absolutely terrible track record when it comes to this stuff. People continued to play en masse at UB and AP after the cheating scandal. Men the Master is allowed to continue playing live despite his numerous documented cheating cases in live games.

The reality is that once we're on the felt we've proven we really don't care what someone's done, as long as their money is good.
 
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i used to like howard lederer, thought he was an intelligent player/person.. but after all that fulltilt stuff i read about i'd like to read about someone taking a bat to his legs! or at his hands so he'll have trouble pickin up cards/chips lol SMH @ howard! hope he goes broke at "bobby's room"

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I bet nobody has or will even mention FTP to him at any casino.
 
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@Jim Lahey if its low enough limit someone will say something to him or if he sits with Daniel Negreanu, i'm sure Daniel will let something slip. That video blog i saw on youtube Daniel Negreanu was telling it like it is..."someone should take a baseball bat to his groin" lol i'm sure Howard's going to get told off at the tables sooner or later, now as far as someone hurting him i dont think that will happen. also its crazy how much howards aged since that stuff you can tell he's stressed and worried to death.

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