Andy Bloch

Andy Bloch is a poker player who started playing seriously in 1992, entering some small $35 weekly tournaments once a month. By the end of the year, he had won one of the World Poker Finals tournaments, a $100(US) entry fee no-limit Texas hold'em tournament. That was the first time he ever played no-limit.

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In 1997, he skipped the last week of law school classes to play in the WSOP Main Event. He was the guinea pig in a low-tech hole-card cam trial. Tom Sims was looking for a volunteer to "sweat" and record all his hole cards, and he agreed. His records turned into a 2-part Card Player Magazine article. After passing the bar in 1999, he decided to delay his law career and went back to poker.

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That career got delayed even further after making two WSOP final tables in 2001, a first place finish back at Foxwoods in 2002 (playing seven card stud), and two WPT final tables the first season, finishing 3rd both times.

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He also runs the very popular (Unofficial) World Poker Tour Fan Site, and is always looking for ways to use his poker skills and his law degree to make the world a better place.

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Poker: Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the remaining player or players with the best combination of cards. Poker can also refer to video poker which is...

1992: 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday....

Texas hold'em: Texas hold 'em (or simply hold 'em or holdem) is the most popular of the community card poker games. It is the most popular poker variant played in casinos in the western United States, and its no-limit form is used in the main event of the World Series of Poker (abbreviated WSOP), widely recognize...

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