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Erick Lindgren - Poker Player Biography |
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Name : Erick Lindgren
Nickname : E-Dog
Full Tilt Id : Erick Lindgren
Birth Date : August 11, 1976
Birth Place : Burney, California, United States
Current Residence : Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Total WSOP Bracelets: 1
Total WPT Wins : 2
Best Game : No Limit Holdem
First Big Win : 1st in the $ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event
at the Bellagio Five Diamond Poker Classic - 2002 for $228,192
First WSOP Bracelet : $ 5,000 Limit/No Limit Hold'em
at the 39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008, Las Vegas for $ 374,505
Biggest WSOP Cash : 3rd in the $ 50,000 H.O.R.S.E. at the 39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008, Las Vegas for $781,440
Biggest Cash : 1st in the $ 7,000 Limit Hold'em Championship Final Day at 2004 - PartyPoker.com Million III Limit Hold'em, Cruise for an amount of $ 1,000,000.
All time money list : 17th
Hobbies : Watching sports, playing golf.
Erick “E-Dog” Lindren, was born in a small mountain town of Burney in California. His father ran a tire shop. Erick was attracted towards sports from the very beginning. He was a All League quarterback and MVP Basketball player during his high school days and dreamt of being part of the NFL or NBA one day.
He went to college in Chico, California to play the game of basketball.
Erick Lindgren got his first job at the Colusa Indian Casino as a blackjack dealer. It was during this time that he got attracted towards Texas Holdem and started studying the game seriously. Soon, he was devoting more time to poker than his studies and decided to drop out of college to follow poker.
At the casino, he also learnt how to spot the tells by studying the players who used to come there. By the age of 21, he started working as a proposition poker player for a casino in San Pablo, California.
At the same time, Erick Lindgren put up a small setup with multiple computers and started multi tabling at various poker sites simultaneously. Erik was earning well from his proposition player income and the online poker winnings. His game also improved a lot during this time due to the amount of poker he was playing.
In 2002, Erick Lindgren moved to the gambling capital, Las Vegas and started playing in big buy in tournaments. He was immediately rewarded the same year in December when he won the $ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event at the Bellagio Five Diamond Poker Classic – 2002 to pocket a cool $228,192.
Erick Lindgren followed this up in 2003 by reaching the final tables of $ 3000 Pot Limit Holdem event at the WSOP and 2 events of the WPT by the month of July. In October, victory again kissed his feat when he won the $ 4,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship Final Day – WPT at the 2003 Ultimatebet.com Poker Classic II to add $500,000 to his bankroll.
But the ultimate moment for Erick Lindgren came in March 2004 when he took out his friend Daniel Negreanu in heads up play to win the $ 7,000 Limit Hold'em Championship Final Day - PartyPoker.com Million III Limit Hold'em. This gave him his first $1 Million payday as well as the WPT Player of the Year award for 2004.
In 2005 also, Erick continued with his excellent form cashed in at many events. This included a 2nd place at a WSOP circuit event, 5th place at the WPT L.A. Poker classic and a win at the 2005 Professional Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic- No Limit Holdem event.
2006 was the year he got near to winning his first WSOP bracelet but could only manage the 2nd position to Jeff Madsen at the $ 5,000 Short Handed No Limit Hold'em event at the 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006. Erick Lindgren got $357,435 for this near miss.
He had started 2006 with a 3rd place finish in 9,700 WPT Championship Event - No Limit Hold'em at the WPT Borgata Winter Open with a payoff of $282,721 to him.
The same year he won the $ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em event at the Fourth Annual Five-Star World Poker Classic in Las Vegas for $261,555.
In June 2006, Erik Lindgren took down the $120,000 Full Tilt Poker Pro Showdown event in Las Vegas by beating the field consisting of other top Full Tilt Poker pros, Mike Matusow, Clonie Gowen, Erik Seidel, John Juanda, Chris Ferguson and Phil Ivey.
Year 2007, started on a very high not for Erick Lindgren when he won the A$ 100,000 Hold'em Event at the 2007 Aussie Millions to pocket the first prize of
A$1,000,000 . Though there was no other big win in 2007, Erick Lindgren still cashed in 5 WSOP and 2 WPT events.
2008 can rightly be called as WSOP year of Erik Lindgren’s poker career. Erik cashed in 5 WSOP events this year with 3 of them final tables and other two in the last 2 tables at the 39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008, Las Vegas.
He won his first and very well deserved bracelet for $ 5,000 Limit/No Limit Hold'em
Event defeating Justin Bonomo to get a pay out of $374,505.
There is surely more WSOP success to come from Erick Lindgren in the future and we can expect him to win more WSOP bracelets as he has managed to secure his first bracelet now.
His tournament winnings are more than $7 Million, which places him at number 17 in the all time money list. But the way he is playing and winning, very soon we should see him making a go at the top position of the all time money list.
Erick has also written a book “World Poker Tour: Making the Final Table.” In 2005, the foreword of which has good words from his friend Daniel Negreanu.
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