Eric Baldwin snagged Card Player’s Player of the Year award for 2009. After winning over 1.2 million in tournaments in 2009 alone, it is no wonder why he has been named this year’s winner. Baldwin made 17 final tables and took down four tournament titles. His latest win was the Bellagio Five Diamond $1,000 NL Hold’em rebuy tournament. After a successful year, he accumulated 6,994 player of the year points which was over 200 more points than 2008 POY winner John Phan had.
Below are the standings for the POY 2009:
1. Eric Baldwin- 6,994
2. Cornel Cimpan- 5,934
3. Yevgeniy Timoshenko- 5,509
4. Vitaly Lunkin- 4,473
5. Soheil Shamseddin- 4,283
6. Jason Mercier- 4,130
7. Brock Parker- 3,772
8. Joseph Cada- 3,600
9. Mike Leah- 3,497
10. Angel Guillen- 3,492
Eric Baldwin is a 26 year old professional poker player who grew up in Beaver Dam, WI. He went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where he got a degree in psychology with a minor in mathematics. In 2005, he played right field for the UW-Whitewater collegiate baseball team which won the Division III National Championship.
He recently moved to Las Vegas, NV to concentrate on poker full time. He won his first World Series Of Poker bracelet in 2009 in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament which paid $521,932. Year to date, he has had 93 tournament cashes, ten 1st place finishes, and over $2.6 million in tournament wins.
