Eric Rizen Lynch

Introduction

Well, I'm jumping on the bandwagon per se and starting a blog. If you've arrived here, you're probably a family member/friend of mine, or someone who knows me through 2+2 or Pocket Fives. For those of you that don't know a lot about me, here's the quick version. I'm a 27 yr old software engineer from Kansas City, Kansas who also happens to spend a lot of time playing online poker.

This blog really serves two main purposes for me right now, although I reserve the right to turn it into something a bit more in the future should something come of it. The real goal and reason I first considered starting a poker blog though was because of my recent win in a PCA Double Shootout event. My family and friends all wanted a way to keep up with how I'll be doing as I play in the Bahamas Atlantis event this January, and I figured this would be the easiest (and most inexpensive) way to do so.

In addition, I'm also a person who truly loves the game of poker, and I have a lot of quasi-philosophical thoughts on the game. Since I'm creating the blog anyways, I'll probably update it 4-5 times a week after I play with some general thoughts on some play/situation that came up that night as well as perhaps a few generalisms on poker. I also may post 1 or 2 hands a day that I think are interesting in some form or another. They may or may not be hands I was actually involved in.

One thing that is NOT currently the goal of this blog is to attempt to make you, the reader, a better player. The site is strictly for entertainment purposes. That being said, I do truly hope that regular visits here will encourage the people who read this to more closely examine their own games. If that happens to make you a better player, then I am happy to have helped. There are a lot of sites already out there that are meant to improve your poker game (and quite likely do so better than I could), so I will leave the 'teaching' to them.

On top of all of that, I first and foremost consider myself a student of the game. I learn something new each and every day it seems, or at the very least encounter a situation that makes me re-evaluate something I thought I knew to be poker gospel. I don't think the day will ever come where I don't feel I'm improving as a player, and if it does that will probably be the day my game takes a turn for the worse. With that being said, I'm *ALWAYS* happy to discuss poker. I'm sure throughout my posts I will include various ways to contact me if you wish to discuss various poker related things. One of the easiest is to e-mail rizen@sneakybuffalo.com. As a disclaimer, I'm a busy person with a 'real job' and a family I take care of. I appreciate it if you try and respect that and realize that I may not always respond to e-mail in a timely fashion, especially in the evenings when I am concentrating mostly on playing my game.

I may update this from time to time if either the purpose of this blog changes or if I get feedback that leads me to believe it should be updated. I hope that everyone who reads this gets some sort of enjoyment out of it, and I look forward to seeing you all on the tables.

-Rizen