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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 texas hold 'em.

In 1997, he skipped the last week of law school classes to play in the World Series of Poker (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 CardPlayer Magazine article. After passing the bar exam in 1999, he decided to delay his law career and went back to poker.

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 World Poker Tour (WPT) final tables its first season, finishing 3rd both times. Bloch has since chosen to boycott the WPT in protest to its player release process.

He holds two electrical engineering degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. He also runs the 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.

Bloch is also the second season winner of the Ultimate Poker Challenge.

Quote

"Poker is a godless game, full of random pain." ⁽¹⁾

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