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. This article is about the card game. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Texas hold em (or simply hold em or holdem) is the most popular of the community card poker games. ... This article describes the common terms, rules, and procedures in the game, but does not cover the strategic impact of betting. ... Texas hold em (or simply hold em or holdem) is the most popular of the community card poker games as of 2006. ...

In 1997, he skipped the last week of law school classes to play in the 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 Card Player Magazine article. After passing the bar exam in 1999, he decided to delay his law career and went back to poker. 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A bar examination is an series of tests conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given American examination usually consists of the following: complicated essay questions concerning that jurisdictions law; the Multistate Bar Examination, a standardized, nationwide examination containing generalized... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

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 the first season, finishing 3rd both times. Bloch has since chosen to boycott the WPT in protest to its player release process. 1 The Grand Pequot Tower at Foxwoods Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel-casino in Ledyard, Connecticut. ... Seven-card stud is a poker variant. ... The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of poker tournaments featuring most of the worlds professional players. ... A boycott is a refusal to buy, sell, or otherwise trade with an individual or business who is generally believed by the participants in the boycott to be doing something morally wrong. ...

He holds two electrical engineering degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. He also runs the very popular (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. Electrical engineers design power systems. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ...

Bloch is also the second season winner of the Ultimate Poker Challenge. The Ultimate Poker Challenge (UPC) is a series of weekly poker tournaments acting as super-satellites into the series semi-finals. ...

Quote

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

External links

• Official Website
• Hendon Mob Database Player Profile
• Andy Bloch Interview at the World Series of Poker