Yo, Eric, it's cool to see that you're a managing / sponsored pro. I just signed up and made a deposit. Kinda cool to see the 35% rake back. I'm still trying to figure out where I can view my bonus progress. 200% is nice!

BTW, did you ever post up the 2nd part of your Sunday Million win? I could use some MTT coaching. I know I'm unique here, but I'd like to win a $150k+ first place prize.

After sending in my docs it took less than 24 hours for my withdrawal to hit UMW. I like Merge and Lock seems to be good people. Support is responsive, excellent RB and good rake races, etc. I'll definitely be back.

All parts of my Sunday million win are up on PXF if that's what you're referring too. I think they were giving part 1 away for free for a while. Unless you're talking about something else?

-Rizen

Cool. If you're ever giving away subscriptions... haha

I first found the video on your blog years back. That's why I asked.

debating signing up... 35% rakeback and a 200% deposit bonus. Could always just bonus whore it... only 4k ppl online right now... any one ever cash out of it b4?

Hello TS2, I'm the poker room manager over at Lock Poker. I've personally cashed out many times over the last few years with no issues. If you have any questions regarding Lock Poker please feel free to send me a private message.

-Rizen

Taken from lockpoker's website :

No Company Employees or Affiliates.

If you are an officer, director, employee, consultant or agent of the Company or one of its affiliated or subsidiary companies, or suppliers or vendors, you are not permitted to register with Lock Poker or to participate directly or indirectly in any of the Games (each an "Unauthorized Person"). Similarly, relatives of Unauthorized Persons are not permitted to register with Lock Poker or to participate directly or indirectly in any of the Games. For these purposes, the term "relative" shall mean spouse, partner, parent, child or sibling. Any person found to have violated this section will not be entitled to collect any winnings.


This could be interesting

Ya. How can you play and cashout when your not allowed to do so?

A couple of things, first off I was a sponsored pro on Lock from May 2009-Jan 2011, so I played almost two years before accepting the Poker Room Manager position. I have that experience to draw on.

I am much more focused on the business side of things now, and mostly play in only special pro events and things of that nature.

-Rizen

So the person that has been playing on the EricLynch account isn't you?

It is me. I never denied that I still play. Part of my deal is still as a sponsored pro and I have no access to the back end systems.

My function is as an ambassador of the brand and a representative of the players. It is not a traditional employment contract but more of a sponsorship. I have no access to the operations side of things and therefore it is not a violation of the T&C. I was very careful to check everything with both Lock and Merge before I accepted the position.

I play a very significant amount less than I used to due to my added responsibilities, but I believe that as a representative of the players it is important for me to interact with them via e-mail, forums, and in the games.

-Rizen

Terrible site, 98% of players are reg/nit playing 22/18 or 10/8

Sir,

You've been more than a "sponsored pro" for quite some time so why are you playing on the network?



Lock Poker Signs Nine Players, Promotes Eric Lynch to VP

http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/lock-p...ch-to-vp-4016/

Officials at the Cake Poker Network room Lock Poker have made a splash in the last week, signing nine of the game’s top players. In addition, Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Eric Lynch (Rizen) has become the site’s Vice President of Product Development.

LET HIM PLAY

rizen plays shortstack hit and run..

and he's one of the worst playing 12/10 @ 6max. DEF not cheating

Rofl ouch. Anyway, aside from Rizen, someone whom I admire in the poker and business worlds, I can say from experience that the rake back and deposit bonus are not as much incentive to play as one might think.

I played mostly $.50 / $1 HU NLHE, and there is more bumhunting there than on bigger sites. I'm not that good of a player (if I was, I'd have a lot more to show for it), and after just 2 or 3 days it became difficult to get games. I took it as a compliment, but what ended up happening after a hundred hands or so is players would say please don't sit with me. Every skilled player was there to find a complete fish / noob to poker and play no one else. It became clear very quickly to me that I could either wait all day for these few fish, play the one regular who would play me who was pretty evenly matched with me, or of course make the minus EV move to play the few players who were aggressive and likely much better NL HU players than me.

The deposit bonus is ridiculous to clear. An average player will lose every penny to rake before clearing the bonus. The small catch to the 35% rakeback is that you only get 65% of your VIP points. Lock is supposed to have a store, but from what I can tell one has never existed and when I asked a customer service rep online, I was told it wouldn't be open until at least next year. VIP points are used for tournament entries.

I'm not picking on a small site, but I want to save those of you who think you're making a +EV move by taking advantage of what sound to be juicy promotional offers time, money, and effort.

At what limit do the bad beat jackpot tables start? Do they start at NL 50 or NL 100?

I'm on a Mac, OS X 10.6.6

I downloaded the client but when I attempt to start I receive this error message in Wine Log:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: startup.dat
java.io.FileNotFoundException: startup.dat
at java.lang.Void.<unknown>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Void.<unknown>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Void.<unknown>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Void.<unknown>(Unknown Source)

And this in xterm:

bash-3.2$


Help please???

Pardon my ignorance, but why not run the mac version natively rather than the windows version in Wine on your mac?

Pretty sure I'm probably the ignorant one. On the website, I see 2 download buttons. One has a graphic, the Mac symbol, but it's not a "separate" button -- it's just part of a larger graphic. Clicking this downloads install.exe file.

Second button is "Download" text button at the top of the screen. Same result -- forced d/l of Windows version.

Dunno. I'm stumped.

My browser download history shows the file coming from:

http://install.merge-hosting.com/loc...om/install.dmg

try that one man

^

Success!! Thanks a lot, bud. Good karma to you.

Where is the hand history folder with Lock?

Are you running LP on Windows or OS X? I'm not sure where the HHs are on Windows, but on OS X:

-Navigate from your hard drive to /Applications
-Find the LP client, right-click -> "Show package contents"
-Click through /contents/client/history/'your username'

Your HHs should be located there.

I signed up to Lock on April 3rd and had an issue for support shortly after. However, the live chat feature has not worked in the multiple times I tried it. I also have sent emails and received no response.

From the Lock Poker homepage:

Oh, really?

Anyone else having problems with support?

Thanks, I was able to locate it.