We ran into Erick Lindgren before start time today and he had literally just got off the plane. His good friend Bill Edler had just won the WPT event at Biloxi, and Erick had to leave when it was three-handed, so I informed him that Bill had won (to which a flurry of high-fiving commenced) and then showed Erick where to try to get his day changed to Day Two. While the process was getting taken care of, Erick made a snap decision that he would play today after all, and is in the field today with just above his starting chips.
We grabbed him on first break to chat about all of that stuff.