Background:

Eric "Rizen" Lynch was the Poker Room Manager for Lock Poker for a few years. He resigned in August 2014, but that was after Lock hadn't paid people in 20 months!

Lynch used to be the main point-of-contact on 2+2 when people had gripes with the way Lock was handling things. This was BEFORE the payment problems got bad, but included the time period with the Girah scandal, Casino Bonus scandal, and other shady situations. I found Lynch to be VERY evasive, though he was good at answering questions civilly and pretending like he was on the players' side.

His role as communicator on 2+2 ended around the time the payment problems began, and he was replaced by Shane Bridges, who was often arrogant and combative. However, it is important to note that Lynch continued promoting Lock, continued to officially be the "Poker Room Manager", and seemed to have no problem doing so for 20 months while Lock wasn't paying anyone.

Lynch disappeared from social media when things with Lock got bad, and people assumed that he was in hiding. However, he reappeared in February 2015 when a Lock victim uncovered lots of information about the various conspirators, and posted a lot of it to 2+2 and PFA.

User "HipAintCheap", who uncovered the info, put the scare into the Lock conspirators, and some of the players were shaken out of the hiding tree. Shane Bridges briefly surfaced and pretended to cooperate. Eric Lynch chose to surface privately, by e-mailing me on February 20th, just 10 days after HipAintCheap posted the information he found.

Lynch said he would talk with me, but only if I kept our conversation private. I agreed at the time, but Lynch stopped responding to me, so fuck him. I especially don't feel guilty publishing this stuff because he was part of a conspiracy to defraud poker players, so I don't feel I owe him a lot of integrity. I was honestly going to keep our correspondence private if he was truly helpful, but instead he just seemed to be interested in making excuses and claiming that Jennifer Larson isn't all that bad (lol). Shockingly, despite knowing that Jennifer stole $10-$15 MILLION from our community, he told me that he still felt "loyal" to her because she was supportive to him during his divorce!

There was a substantial delay between his last response and my answer to him. That's because I injured my ankle badly on February 22, 2015 (hours after I had written my prior response to him), and while I received his response the next day, I was in too much pain to read the whole thing, and I forgot he had answered. I thought about it months later, responded to him, and he ignored me. I sent him another e-mail, and he ignored that, as well. Keep in mind that he's had the same e-mail address for many years, so it's unlikely he changed it and didn't get what I sent him.

The e-mails follow. Enjoy!