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Originally Posted by WellThatsFine
[Johnny Lodden]
now in 15 years i bet he is depressed about the fact that he had millions of dollars and if it wasn't for the fact that he was a degenerate gambler while he was a teenager and into his early 20's he wouldn't have to do anything for the rest of his life, he could just play 10/20 all day and it wouldn't matter because all that money he made was invest properly, very sad
From what I've seen of interviews with Lodden in misc national magazines (poker-related and otherwise), I'm quite certain the guy is far from life bust. He supposedly invested a significant chunk of his winnings into real estate, for instance.
That's also supported by the fact that the guy actually payed a ****load of taxes for.. 2006, I think it was (tax lists are public information in Norway). This means he must have cashed out a lot of money from his online account(s), as he would otherwise have no incentive to pay taxes. From the sum on his tax report, he must have withdrawn
at least $1'000'000.
He's also playing a lot of EPT main events, some WPT main events, and for last year's EPT final in Monte Carlo, he backed a whole bunch of fellow Norwegians for their full buy-in, IIRC.
So Lodden is very likely by no means poor... though it would have been very sweet to see him get back his roll to play extreme nosebleed stakes cash games online again.