Eric Lynch

Last month, I was approached by Bluff Magazine to take part in its “Bluff Poker Challenge.” For those of you who are unfamiliar with the event, a dozen or so players were invited. Each of them will start with $200 on Lock Poker and we will have the entire month to turn that into as much money as possible.

Having only been a poker professional for three years now after starting to play the game in 2003 right at the beginning of the “poker boom,” I was very fortunate to have been able to ride most of the meteoric rise that the game experienced from 2003 until 2006.

As I am writing this, I have just returned from watching the World Series of Poker Main Event live at the Rio. I, like most poker players and fans around the world, was very curious to find out how all the hype and buildup around the three and a half months off would impact the final table.

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.