Eric Lynch (also known under nick Rizen), who is widely known in poker circles as a talented player and a columnist in Poker News Daily, has recently signed a contact with Lock Poker. Their collaboration will seriously start at WSOP (World Series or Poker) 2009 in Las Vegas.

From now Eric Lynch will visit all major tournaments with a Lock Poker logo. They started their relationship at the Bluff Online Challenge that held earlier in March. That contest held as long as a month and offered everyone to earn as much as they can having just $200 as starting money. As a result Brian Hastings a.k.a. SNo0oWMAN ranked first, bringing in his pocket $25,000. Lynch scored sixth with $400. After Bluff Online Challenge Lock Poker made a proposal to Lynch to join their team and he agreed. This makes Eric Lynch the first pro signed with Lock Poker that accepts players from the United States as well.

As Eric Lynch states, he’d never sign up with a website he’s not sure in. He likes Lock Poker as they are really focused on players and try to provide best service available. So, guess, we can expect a series of Lynch involved promotions from Lock Poker. By the way, this is not first collaboration for Lynch as he's also an instructor of PokerXFactor.com devoted to educational purposes.

Lynch is a famous player and many remember his success at WSOP tournaments. In 2006 WSOP Main Event he managed to occupy 24th place that gave him $494,000 (the winner of this 8,773 player tournament, Jamie Gold, took home $12 million). 2007 WSOP tournament was also another huge punch as Lynch finished it as the runner up to Scott Clements "BigRiskky”. $1,500 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha made Lynch richer for another $119,000. Overall his earnings from WSOP tournaments exceed $800,000.

As Lynch mentions, his collaboration with Lock Poker doesn’t mean he’s going to break the relationships with Bluff Magazine or PokerXFactor, but his money play will be now primary done at Lock Poker.

Lock Poker, that is a part of Cake Poker Networks, currently occupies 10th place in the list of largest poker networks with average 1,640 real money players each week. In peak hours network gathers approximately 2,400 players and in the mid-morning hours (Eastern Time) average of 1,235 players can be found at the virtual tables playing poker. Overall, this is the forth largest poker network that accepts players from the USA (the top three ones are PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and CEREUS – merged Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker). Besides Lock Poker Cake Poker Networks owns several more poker rooms as Doyle's Room, Poker World, Poker Host, Players Only and Sportsbook.com