Andrew Bloch is a 41 year-old-professional poker player, born in Orange, Connecticut, US and is currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1999 his Harvard education brought him a Law degree, specialized in stock trading and game theory and his Massachusetts Institute of Technology education brought him two electrical engineering degrees in 1992. Interested in card games since he was a little boy, Andrew Bloch used his knowledge to write computer programs that help to determine a player’s strategy in a specific table game. He succeeded beating at the “Hickok 6-card Poker” game, which forced the casino where it was played to abandon the game.
Later in 1992, Andrew Bloch started to participate in live poker tournaments, while he was a part of the MIT blackjack team. At first, he started to play in small $35 weekly tournaments and by the end of the year, he had won one World Poker Finals Texas Hold’em tournament. In 2001, Andrew Bloch made two WSOP and two WPT final tables, finishing third both times. Later, in 2005 he won the $10,000 buy-in Ultimate Poker Challenge II championship event and a WSOP circuit tournament. In 2006 Andrew Bloch finished second at the WSOP $50,000 buy-in HORSE tournament, where he won over one million dollars, after the longest recorded heads up battle in the World Series Of Poker history. Later that year, he won the Pro Am Poker Equalizer Professionals vs. Celebrities TV show, as he defeated Phil Laak, earning the prize of $500,000. In 2008 he finished second in the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, as well as in the WSOP $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em World Championship, earning $488,048. With overall of 62 cashes and 8 first place finishes, his total winnings exceed $3,900,000.
Andrew Bloch appears frequently on various magazines and TV shows, he has even taken part in the book “Bringing Down The House”, the documentary DVD called “The Hot Shoe” and Fox’s reality series “The Casino”. Later in time, Bloch released his own instructional DVD about blackjack, called “Beating Blackjack”, which has the goal to explain card counting. He is also a part of the FullTiltPoker.com site, where he plays online poker exclusively, along with other professionals in low-limit games that everyone can afford. Andrew Bloch donates all the money he earns in low-limit games on FullTiltPoker.com to various charities around the world, like when he donated a huge amount of earnings to a region in Sudan, called Darfur. Trying to make the world a better place, Andrew Bloch is always willing to use his strong poker skills and law knowledge to help others, so he runs the very popular World Poker Tour & World Series of Poker Fan Site, where people can get all the information they need. It is certain that Andrew Bloch is going to continue proving himself as a poker player and as a person, so people are going to see even more of him in the future.
Top 5 Achievements:
2006 37th Annual World Series of Poker H.O.R.S.E. (Event 20) $50,000 buy-in - 2nd place, $1,029,600 profit
2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em (Event 1) $10,000 buy-in - 2nd place, $488,048 profit
2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Heads Up - No Limit Hold'em $0 buy-in - 2nd place, $250.000 profit
2005 Ultimate Poker Challenge No-Limit Hold'em $10,000 buy-in - 1st place, $167,500 profit
2003 L.A. Poker Classic No-Limit Hold'em Championship $10,000 buy-in - 3rd place, $125,460 profit
