Andy Bloch

Andrew (Andy) Bloch is an outstanding poker player who started playing seriously in 1992, entering some small tournaments once a month. By the end of the 1992, he had won one of the World Poker Finals tournaments, a $100 entry fee no-limit Texas hold’em tournament. It was Bloch’s first experience playing no-limit texas hold’em.

In 1997, Bloch skipped the last week of law school classes at Harvard to play in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. After passing the bar exam in 1999, he decided to delay his law career and went back to poker.

His law career got delayed again after he made two WSOP final tables in 2001, a first place finish at Foxwoods in 2002 (playing severn-card stud), and two World Poker Tour (WPT) final tables in its first season, finishing 3rd both times.

Bloch has an electrical engineering degree and a Law degree. He also runs the unofficial World Poker Tour Fan Site.

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

Andy Bloch is also a member of "Team Full Tilt" at Full Tilt Poker.

At the 2006 World Series of Poker, Bloch finished 2nd in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event. The game lasted 286 hands and was the longest recorded in WSOP history.

In 2007, he won the Pro-Am Poker Equalizer taking in the grand prize of $500,000.

As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,700,000.