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Andy Bloch grew up in Orange which is a small suburb in New Haven, Connecticut. He started playing poker in 1992, where at the same he got his two electrical engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Believing and even told his parents that he could live with poker alone, he decidedly continued to play poker after he got fired from his working when he had an argument with his employer. Ignoring his engineering career, poker became the top on his list of interests.
He continued a degree in Harvard Law School, and actually skipped the last week of his law classes just to play in the 1997 WSOP Main Event. That time, Tom Sims was looking for a volunteer to whom he could “sweat” and record all his hole cards in a low-tech hole card cam trial where Bloch actually presented himself. This record story was written as a two part article in the prestigious Card Player Magazine.
Passing the bar exam in 1999, he decided to delay his law career to pursue his poker profession. This was delayed even more when he realized that his poker career continued to pick up in the long run. However, he stayed an activist at heart, and in 2003, he was arrested during an anti-war protest in front of the White House. It was then that he defended himself as a licensed lawyer.
Andy Bloch is popular in his game analysis specialty, and most of his interest lies in the mathematical and psychological aspect on poker. Some of his poker achievements are winning a @100 No-Limit Texas Hold’em tournament in 1992, made two final tables at the WSOP in 2001, won first place at a Seven Card Stud Event at Foxwoods in 2002 and made another two World Poker Tour final tables during the first season at 3rd both times. He also became the winner in the second season of the Ultimate Poker Challenge’s $2,500 No-Limit Texas Hold’em Tournament.
Currently, in his official website’s journal, Bloch announced that he’d be boycotting the World Poker Tour until the tournament’s body decides to change the way the player’s identities and names are used. When he’s free, he runs an unofficial yet popular World Poker Tour Fan Site and plays in Fulltiltpoker.com as part of Team Full Tilt.
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