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Andrew (Andy) Black (born 20 July 1965) is a poker player from Belfast, Ireland, who presently resides in Dublin.

Black played cards with his mother when he was younger, and began playing more seriously in 1986, whilst he was studying for a law degree at Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of a long running poker school in the Junior Common Room (The JCR), that previously had noted poker players Donnacha O'Dea and Padraig Parkinson as members. He also began playing in the Griffin Casino in Dublin, reputedly because of the free food and coffee.

He lost to Stu Ungar (rumoured to have been a bad beat of Black's AK getting cracked by Ungar's AQ) in the 1997 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event. The following year a documentary titled Million Dollar Deal (narrated by John Hurt) was made of his visit to the same tournament. When he lost that too, he discarded all his possessions, travelled to England and lived in a semi-monastic Buddhist environment for 5 years.

Black successfully returned to poker in 2004, dominating in Irish tournaments and placing fifth in the 2005 WSOP main event. He led the final table of the main event at one stage holding over 1/3rd of the chips in play, however he succumbed to a number of bad beats by players making questionable calls and finished 5th, winning $1.75m.

Since the 2005 WSOP main event, he has made a money finish on both the European Poker Tour and the World Poker Tour .

In 2005 he appeared on the chatshow Heads Up with Richard Herring to discuss his faith and his poker career.

As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,900,000.

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