Lindgren is an American professional poker player from California born in 1976. He is a former member of “Team Full Tilt”. In February 2008, Lindgren hosted “FTOPS Event #9”, part of Full Tilt’s series of large buy-in tournaments. The tournament had over 5,600 entrants, and had a prize pool of over $1.65 million. Lindgren won the tournament becoming the first Full Tilt pro to win an FTOPS event that they hosted. He took home over $291,000. As of September, 2012 according to Howard Lederer’s interview Erick has a loan of $4 000 000 to FullTilt. As of 2011, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,150,000 placing him 24th on the all time money list. His 28 cashes at the WSOP account for $2,286,129 of those winnings.
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