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Erick Lindgren

Erick Lindgren was born August 11, 1976 in the small mountain town of Burney, California. Erick started making bets at a young age, usually betting on things he knew he would win; like whether or not he could make a basket from half court—he was a star basketball player in high school and even had scholarship offers from various colleges. Soon after enrolling at Butte Junior College, he discovered an Indian casino near campus and got a job as a blackjack dealer. He said it was the crappiest job he ever had, but aside from his poker play, it was the “only” job he ever had.

It wasn’t long before he learned how to play Texas Hold’em and soon he was playing poker more and studying less, until he finally just dropped out of school. Erick was supporting himself nicely, but he let his parents still believe that he was enrolled in college for the first year he was playing professionally. He said it was the “best bluff I ever made”—they weren’t too happy when they found out about that bluff—but they are pretty happy now, he says.

Erick moved to Las Vegas in 2002 and introduced himself to the poker community by winning the Five Diamonds Poker Classic at the Bellagio taking home $230,000, and then 10 months later he had his first World Poker Tour (WPT) win. He moved on to the Party Poker Million III cruise taking the top prize of one million. In 2005 he placed in several events and in January of 2006 he placed 3rd at the Borgata Winter Poker Open and then took first in the Full Tilt Poker, Poker Pro Showdown event for another $600,000.

True to his gambling nature, in June of 2007, he made a bet with Phil Ivey, Gavin Smith and others that he could play four consecutive rounds of golf at Las Vegas “Bear’s Best” golf course from sunrise to sunset , carrying his own bags and scoring under 100 in each round. He won the bet for $350,000 but with temperatures in the 100’s he said he lost 12 pounds.

Lindgren is a member of “Team Full Tilt” at Full Tilt Poker and goes by the nickname of ‘E-Dog’. In February of 2008 he hosted “FTOPS” Event #9—a series of large buy-in tournaments—with a prize pool of over $1.65 million. What else—he won—making him the first Full Tilt pro to win the event that they hosted.

In June of 2008 Erick won his first World Series of Poker Bracelet in the $5,000 mixed no-limit/limit Texas Hold’em event and he was named WSOP player of the year—his  total live tournament winnings exceed  $7,300,000

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