STARS LINE UP FOR MARCH POKER SHOWDOWN

The WPT circuit’s one of the major stages is WPT (The World Poker Tour Bay Shooting Star). This year in 2012, it will function in San Jose, California as usual (from 5th March, 2012). Arrangers have just declared the poker star’s names as ‘bounty’ during the championship of $ 10000.

This championship is designed to assemble many people, as it is a chance for poker fanciers to challenge prominent pros on live tables and not to highlight that the winner will grab a huge gain.

During the World Poker Tour Bay Shooting Star 2012 a $ 5000 reward will be provided to the poker player capable to eliminating one of the forty-nine poker players who will be there on the table such as Erik Seidel,  Jonathan Duhamel, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Barry Greinstein, Antonio Esfandiari, Erick Lindgren,  Chris Moorman, Eugene Katchalov, Freddy Deeb,  Joe Hachem, Jennifer Harman, Tony G,  Maria Ho, Liv Boeree, Scotty Nguyen, Michael Mizrachi, Men Nguyen and Mike Matusow, the star of the finals in the year 2011. The 2 French poker stars Fabrice Soulier and Bertrand Grospellier will be also out there.

Remember that the award was gained by Alan Sternberg, an amateur, last year. He grappled to kick out the pro Mike Matusow and Steven Kelly, a effort that let the amateur to garner a great payoff of 1 million dollars. The winner of this current edition will surely move away with such a huge sum.

Furthermore, in accession to the $ 5000 premium, the best poker players getting to achieve the top spot of the chart at the finish of Day 1A and Day 1B will obtain extra prizes.

Alan Sternberg, the WPT Champion moved away with $ 103900 for his title, watches himself as an aim in 2012 and he will be battling to win $5,000 bounty when the championship gets started.

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Focus on: Erick Lindgren

Erick Lindgren is a poker player born in 1976 in California, of Swedish origins, which has two titles at the World Poker Tour, one bracelet at the WSOP and he also managed to amass over $7 million in winnings at live tournaments so far.

The first big competition he managed to win was in 2002, at the Bellagio casino. The next one was during the World Poker Tour, after ten months. After another half year, he also won the Million III WPT cruise, which had a prize of $1 million.

In 2005 he took the second place at the Circuit Event of World Series, the 5^th place at the LA Poker Classic WPT, plus the first place at the PPT tournament.

One year later he reached the final table at the WPT once again, taking the 3^rd place.

In 2006 he also won the first place and the $0.6 million prize, at the Poker Pro Showdown from FullTiltPoker.net, defeating poker players like Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Mike Matusow, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda and Clonie Gowen.

In 2007, Erik won the Aussie Millions tournament, defeating 17 players in an event with a $100k buy-in.

Lindgren also wrote a poker book, which deals with how he approaches poker tournaments and the strategy that can be used there. He used his experience at the WPT in the book, to demonstrate his points.

As for his online career, he is a Team Full Tilt member. He hosted an event in the series offered by Full Tilt and he managed to win it, taking home $291k in the process. There were another 5,600 players in that tournament and a $1.65 million prize pool. He is the first player from Full Tilt Poker to manage to win the tournament which they hosted.

Lindgren married in 2011 Erica Schoenberg, another professional poker player.

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