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Erik Lindgren is a young poker player but he is feared by his opponents. Before turning thirty-five he won two World Poker Tour Championships, the $600,000 Full Tilt Poker Poker Pro Showdown at the Red Rock Casino, the World Poker Tour Party Poker Million III and was named the Player of the Year at the 2004 World Poker Tour. He netted $7.5 million by 2011 in live tournament winnings.

Erick is a California native of Swedish descent and lives in Las Vegas. He began as a blackjack dealer then moved to a card room prop player in California. At twenty-six he won his first major poker tournament in Las Vegas at the Bellagio.

He went on in ten months to win his first World Poker Tour title and then six months later the Poker Million. In 2005 he was runner up in the Atlantic City Circuit Event at the World Series of Poker and one month later he placed fifth in the LA Poker Classic at the World Poker Tour.

In 2007 he won $800,000 in the Aussie Millions at the $100,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament. While he has never won a bracelet at a World Series of Poker event he has thirteen in-the-money finishes. In World Poker Tours he has won two titles and sat at five final tables.

He has written “World Poker Tour: Making the Final Table” a poker tournament strategy book and a best seller! Online he used to play exclusively at Full Tilt Poker and he was a member and spokesman for Team Full Tilt. Unfortunately after Black Friday in 2011 Full Tilt was removed from the Internet and Erick lost his sponsor and a nice source of income. At this time he is not sponsored by another poker room, but Full Tilt is expected to be back on line and he may be back at his previous employer. There is currently a controversy to finalize the take over by group Tapie as some poker pros have debt with Full Tilt, including Erick himself.

Let’s hope this deal sees completion and that Full Tilt comes back with all the action we were used to see there.

Well I suppose I will start another post as a place to vent about poker as well as record my progress on my moss work among other things. As it stands I probably will not be getting in a lot of poker time next year as I have at least two field excursions planned. One to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the other one to several countries in South America.

I am also going to try to squeeze in a trip to several countries in Africa if the necessary funds are available. So if there is a lack of poker there should still be some interesting stories to record. Put in 1556 hands of 50 NL tonight and just ran horribly but still managed to win 9.00. That has to be one of the beauties of NL for me. If you play well post flop it is just very hard for these guys to get the best of you for very long before you turn the tables on them.

Going to try and get in 10K more hands at pokerstars this weekend. I figured playing just 50 NL I need to put in 19K hands before the 24th to clear the bonus before the deadline so I have a lot of work ahead of me but 10 tabling while nut peddling it goes by reasonably fast. Also managed my 4th day of not drinking any alcohol even after going to the TGIF free booze party this afternoon. Now that was a tough hurdle to pass but I made it.

So all in all things are going fairly well at the moment with the exception of my wife and little girl being stopped by immigration when leaving Venezuela last Tuesday. They would not let her travel because she did not have a letter of permission from me to travel alone with our little girl. I suppose that requirement is not such a bad thing but anyone wanting to circumvent it could easily do so so it really just turned things into a pain in the ass. The fuckers gave me a fax number to send a letter stating it was ok but their fax machine was not working properly so they never got it. So the bottom line is I had to fork out more money to change the date on the tickets and they will not arrive until the 29th which kind of sucks as I had planned on being in Arkansas with my mom as she has never seen her youngest granddaughter but I suppose we will still go after Christmas for a few days.