Eric "Rizen" Lynch is an average looking guy. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife and kids, he is neither a college dropout nor a hustler by trade. He's a normal guy who happens to make millions of dollars playing poker online. Read more »
For those of you that don't already know who I am, my name is Eric Lynch and I'm a professional poker player. I'll be turning 30 in a few days and I've been playing poker professionally for over two years now, seriously for about four, and recreationally in one way or another for my entire life. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get started in poker? Lynch: Like most people, after Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 Main Event, everyone was playing. I got invited to a lot of home games and I stunk. I got tired of losing money, so I started learning the game and tried to figure out what to do. One of my friends pointed me towards Party Poker and I put $50 on there and got really lucky at first. I ran my bankroll up to $300 and then it fell back down to $50 before I realized that I wasn't very good. I started studying and started to take poker fairly seriously. Eventually, I got into tournaments. When I first started playing online in 2004, there were mainly just cash games available. I won an $11 rebuy on PokerStars in 2005 and it snowballed from there. I can't point to any one incident that made things click. I just started running well. Read more »
