Andrew Bloch
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Name: Andrew Bloch
Date of birth: 1 June 1969
Residence: Las Vegas, USA
Prizes: $ 4,000,000 in tournaments.
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Andy Bloch, whose real name Andrew Bloch, is an impressive poker player, and a level of consistency rarely equaled. But it also has the misfortune to lose all these important coin-flips. And when one speaks of importance, we are talking here about the HORSE $ 50,000 in 2006, another WSOP bracelet in 2008, on the finale of NBC's Head up championship, 3 places 3rd at WPT ... Despite many victories we stay with the unpleasant impression that this player has no track record it deserves.
Andy Bloch can be regarded as a genius. Law degree from Harvard is also a graduate in electrical engineering. One of his most famous act of weapons is to be part of the MIT Blackjack Team, one of the most famous case of counting cards in Las Vegas. This team has collected several million dollars by counting cards and giving an advantage to his associates against the bank. Andy recognized himself having won over $ 100,000 in session playing blackjack.
Upon successful review of law he decided to put his legal career on hold to devote himself to poker. He was one of the leading players has allowed a camera spinning and privatize its cards in 1997, well before the establishment in all of television.
Gains tournaments Andy Bloch is $ 3,832,142, passing it to a respectable 58th rank in the world of poker players
Andy Bloch is a member of the team fulltilt poker. It is also known to distribute all of its gains earned tournaments through the online site to charity.
His achievements in detail
Andy Bloch and the WSOP ... Undoubtedly his favorite tournament series. He finished 16 times in places, but paid only for the moment no bracelet. His greatest regret is undoubtedly the HORSE final against Chip Reese in 2006. In head to head for 276 hands, the record for the WSOP, he ultimately failed in taking the 2nd place and can be full of regrets in spite of $ 1,029,600 for the console. In 2008, for the first event, a World Championship Pot Limit Hold'em it fails again in head's up when it seemed perfectly in control.
We can hope for now that this great player will receive a bracelet quickly as his talent deserves it.
However, he won in 2004, an event at the WSOP Circuit Limit Hold'em in with $ 1,000 buy-in. In total his WSOP earnings to $ 1,843,389 is an amount that places it 43rd among the WSOP.
Andy Bloch has reached the final two tables of the World Poker Tour 7 times and ends in the seats paid. But he has since decided to boycott the organization of it to protest against the management of image rights of players, too disadvantageous for its taste as for many professional players.
Other performances
Apart from the poker tables, Andy Bloch is a quiet player. He does not play an active cash game, preferring to concentrate on tournaments.
In 2006, he beat Phil Laak to win the Pro-Am Poker Equalizer with $ 500,000 to the winner and he finished in 2nd place on the podium in 2008 to face
Chris Ferguson, collecting $ 250,000 and losing 2-1 in the NBC National Head's Poker Championship.
