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The Poker Grapevine – Anti-Lederer Petition
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2012-11-17 03:49
Howard Lederer has made the news for two separate reasons in the last few days. First, he had his lawyer file a motion to have a lawsuit against him dismissed. The suit is apparently about forcing him to forfeit about $40 million worth of the assets he had illegally obtained, quite possibly directly from Full Tilt Poker player deposits. That move obviously didn’t sit well with the
poker community, and neither did his decision to start playing at the Aria Poker Room a few weeks ago. Not being able to stay away from the poker tables despite the obvious adversity, Lederer had played in the Aria Poker Room as well as at the Bellagio, and he even played in the Festa Al Lago Main Event where he got furiously hackled. The backlash went much further though as a few days ago, Nick DiVella, a top Las Vegas cash game grinder, has created a petition seeking to get Lederer banned from the Aria Casino on moral grounds.
DiVella’s petition will doubtlessly gather plenty of support however some in the poker community have slammed his initiative as a juvenile attempt at exacting revenge.
According to the petition, if the Aria fails to ban Lederer, a number of high stakes poker professionals will proceed to boycott the poker room of the establishment. According to Isaac Haxton, who made his point of view public in a
poker forum thread, while Lederer was quite audacious showing up to play in public, and while the poker community had the right to make him feel unwelcome, the Casino should not give in to the pressure generated by the petition, since Lederer hasn’t officially been convicted of anything yet.
Exactly what the Aria has decided in regards to the petition is currently unclear.
