Rizen's Recent Articles

• Cash Games versus Multi-Table Tournaments

  Views: 2039. Date: Jul 22nd, 2009.

• Keeping Up With Online Poker Trends

  Views: 1721. Date: Jun 26th, 2009.

• Going Against the Grain

  Views: 482. Date: Apr 9th, 2007.

• Moving Beyond Harrington

  Views: 1431. Date: Feb 26th, 2007.

• Die Welt nach Harrington

  Views: 194. Date: Feb 26th, 2007.

• A Tale of Two Players

  Views: 350. Date: Oct 31st, 2006.

• Die Geschichte zweier Spieler

  Views: 268. Date: Oct 31st, 2006.

• Spotting and Attacking Weakness in Online Poker

  Views: 1324. Date: Sep 7th, 2006.

• Schwäche im Online-Poker erkennen und ausnutzen

  Views: 674. Date: Sep 7th, 2006.

• Transitioning to the Live Arena

  Views: 289. Date: Jul 30th, 2006.

Basic Information

• Member Since

  Sep 28th, 2005

• Real Name

  Eric Lynch

• Location

  Olathe, Kansas, United States

• Gender

  Male

• Last Login

  Jan 3rd, 2012 at 08:59 PM

• Total Posts

  416

• Threads Started

  46 (11.06%)

• ARPT

  19.7 / 17.8

• Last Post

  *** Merge Gaming Network Official Support Thread ***
  Sep 15th, 2011 at 03:48 PM

Rizen's Recent Threads

• Who would you like to see represent Team Lock in the Lock Contest? [Jul 1st, 2011]

  Views: 575. Replies: 5. Last Poster: Dan

• *** Merge Gaming Network Official Support Thread *** [May 11th, 2011]

  Views: 31065. Replies: 543. Last Poster: cheroko36

• My $1500 bustout hand is pretty badly misreported [Jun 28th, 2008]

  Views: 284. Replies: 7. Last Poster: darkcheck_

• Couple of quick thoughts [Aug 7th, 2006]

  Views: 450. Replies: 57. Last Poster: TroubleSuit

• Thanks for all the support at the PL HE event guys [Jul 3rd, 2006]

  Views: 138. Replies: 26. Last Poster: PoWdA

PocketFives Scouting Report

Eric "Rizen" Lynch is a veteran PocketFiver who is known as one of the coolest heads in the business. He has several enormous online wins, including an outright victory in the PokerStars $1m Guaranteed. His largest live poker tournament score came in the 2006 WSOP Main Event; in which he placed 24th for $494,000. His recent online tournament cashes include a 2nd place finish in the PokerStars SCOOP Pot Limit Omaha Event #6 for $47,200. He is currently a cash game and MTT specialist, respected blogger, instructor and poker author. In May '09, Eric signed with Lock Poker</a>.

Articles by Rizen

Cash Games versus Multi-Table Tournaments Jul 21, 2009

Keeping Up With Online Poker Trends Jun 26, 2009

Moving Beyond Harrington Feb 27, 2007

Rizen's User Names

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• PokerStars

  Rizen($452,516.28)

• Full Tilt Poker

  Rizen($296,603.07)

• Bodog (Bodog)

  Rizen($41,204.40)

• UB.com (Cereus)

  Rizen($236,312.79)

• Absolute Poker (Cereus)

  SNKYBLUFFALO($1,620.00)

• bwin (OnGame)

  SnkyBluffalo($912.97)

• Party Poker (PartyPoker)

  Rizen($43,895.00)

• Total Won:

  $1,073,064.51

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Detailed Information

• Favorite Poker Hand

  4♥ 7♥

• Profession

  Software Engineer

• Favorite Place to Play Live Poker

  Kansas City, MO

• Favorite Cash Game

  NL/PL HE, $3/$6 to $5/$10

• Favorite Tournament Game

  NL/PL HE MTTs, $100 and over