Early Life
Lederer was born on October 30, 1963 in Concord, New Hampshire. His father is Richard Lederer, a writer and linguist who taught at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. His father was Jewish while his mother was a gentile. He was not raised Jewish. 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, notably the Marshall Chess Club and Manhattan Chess Club where he played, and at one of these clubs he discovered poker and eventually began playing at the Mayfair Club with other now well-known poker players such as Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington.
In 1994, he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where he sought out high stakes poker games.
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