
My name is Andy Bloch and I play online poker exclusively at Full
Tilt Poker.
If you want to learn more about my poker career, keep reading...
I started playing casino poker at Foxwoods in 1992, entering some
small $35 weekly tournaments once a month. By the end of that year,
I'd won one of the World Poker Finals tournaments, a $100 entry
fee No-Limit Hold 'em tournament. That was the first time I ever
played no-limit.
In 1997, I skipped my last week of law school classes to play in
the WSOP Main Event. I 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 I agreed. His records turned
into a two-part Card Player Magazine article. After passing the
bar in '99, I decided to delay my 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 WPT final tables the tour's first season,
finished third both times.
So far in 2005, I have scored two first-place finishes, winning
the WSOP Circuit Limit Hold 'em tournament at the Rio in Las Vegas,
and the Ultimate Poker Challenge $10,000 Final Event. Additionally,
I secured a sixth-place finish in the Mirage Poker Showdown Pot-Limit
Omaha tournament and a seventh-place finish at the Ultimate Poker
Challenge's $2,500 No-Limit Hold 'em tournament.
I also run the very popular (Unofficial) World Poker Tour Fan Site,
and am always looking for ways to use my poker skills and my law
degree to make the world a better place. |