Eric Froehlich

Career

As of 2009, Froehlich"s total live poker tournament winnings exceed $1,300,000. His 16 cashes at the WSOP account for $867,783 of those winnings. Froehlich began playing poker in high school, and got involved in online poker at the age of 18.

He dropped out of the University of Virginia around April 2005 to become a professional poker player.

In the final hand, his Q♦ 7♦ 7♥ 6♠ defeated Sherkhan Farnood"s K♥ K♦ 6♣ 3♥ on a board of 10♣ 7♥ 5♣ J♦ J♥. In addition to playing poker, Froehlich is also a prominent player of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game.

He has made the Top 8 of four Pro Tours and fourteen Grand Prix events. In 2015, Froehlich was voted into the Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame.

Last updated: August 17, 2015

Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame class of 2015.

Achievements

• In the first year he was eligible to enter a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event (2005), Froehlich won a bracelet in the $1,500 limit Texas hold "em event, winning $303,908. This made him the youngest player ever to win a bracelet up to that time. Froehlich won a second bracelet at the 2006 WSOP in the $1,500 pot limit Omaha w/rebuys event, winning $299,675. Shortly after Froehlich"s status as the youngest bracelet winner of all time he was overtaken by Jeff Madsen during the 2006 World Series of Poker then Steve Billirakis at the 2007 World Series of Poker, and then in September 2007 at the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe, Norwegian poker player Annette Obrestad won the £10,000 Number-Limit Texas Hold"em Championship at the age of 18 to become the youngest World Series of Poker bracelet winner ever. Several of Froehlich"s Grand Prix Top 8s have come in team events, in which he has teamed with such prominent professional players as Kamiel Cornelissen, Jon Finkel, Brian Kibler and Luis Scott-Vargas. Accomplishments Source: Event Coverage at Wizards.com Other accomplishments.