Andy Black on HUWRH

Andrew Black (born 20 July 1965) is a poker player from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who presently resides in Dublin. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x576, 242 KB) Summary Still from Heads Up with Richard Herring. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x576, 242 KB) Summary Still from Heads Up with Richard Herring. ... July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Wikibooks Poker has more about this subject: 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... Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom, and the second-largest city on the island of Ireland. ... Royal motto: Quis separabit (Latin: Who will separate?) Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area  - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 4th 1,685,267 122/km² NUTS 1... Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. ...

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. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Donnacha ODea is a former Irish Olympian swimmer turned professional poker player. ... Professional poker player from Ireland. ...

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. It has been suggested that Stefanie Ungar be merged into this article or section. ... In Poker, a bad beat occurs when a hand, which was at one time a big favourite to win, loses. ... The large and growing jargon of poker includes many terms. ... The WSOP logo. ... John Hurt (Mississippi John Hurt is an early American folk and country blues singer, 1893-1966) John Vincent Hurt CBE (born January 22, 1940) is a British actor. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by...

Black successfully returned to poker in 2004, dominating in Irish tournaments and placing fifth in the 2005 WSOP main event. He dominated 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 . Inaugurated in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold em popularity, the European Poker Tour (EPT) is a series of poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour. ... The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a collection of poker tournaments featuring most of the worlds professional players. ...

In 2005 he appeared on the chatshow Heads Up with Richard Herring to discuss his faith and his poker career. Richard Herring Heads Up with Richard Herring or HUWRH, is a British celebrity chat show written by and staring Richard Herring (the comedian formerly of Lee & Herring) and featuring professional poker players and celebrities talking about their lives, their careers and their love of poker. ...