Andy Bloch | Team Full Tilt Player

THE GENIUS MIND OF ANDY BLOCH

An electrical engineer, a mathematical genius, a lawyer and a well-loved professional poker player - All these and more make the man that so many poker enthusiasts look up to, Andy Bloch .

His mathematical skill at games of chance and probability give this Team Full Tilt Player a definite edge. He has won as much as $2,800,000 in various poker tournaments worldwide since he first took poker seriously in 1992, right after he graduated from two electrical engineering courses at the prestigious MIT. It was then that he spent almost every other weekend at the new Foxwoods casino playing mostly poker.

It was also in Foxwoods in 1993, when Andy Bloch and fellow MIT alumni from the school's Blackjack team lorded over a new game called "Hickok 6-card Poker". After a quick study of the game, Andy Bloch wrote some computer programs which discovered flaws in the game and developed various strategies for playing Hickok. The program's strategies gave the player an edge of roughly 6%. They formed a group of MIT students which they trained to play Hickok. The newly formed team won consistently for quite a number of months until the Foxwoods casino caught on and eventually decided to change the rules. It was rumored that Andy Bloch and his team mates pocketed over $1 million, but they disputed this to be an overstatement of their winnings.

A few years later, as this professional Team Full Tilt Player was getting the hang of professional gambling and poker, he was pulling together a string of victories and decided to move to Las Vegas . At that exact same time, he passed examinations for a degree in Law at the prestigious Harvard Law School .

While studying law, he still found himself playing at the World Series of Poker in 1997 and 1998. He eventually graduated in 1999 and passed the bar examinations. Andy Bloch paid for all of his law school expenses with his poker winnings.

Following law school, this Team Full Tilt Player went back to playing poker, having failed to find a law-related job that sustained his interest and his very active mind. Aside from poker, he busied himself by trading stocks for a while before embarking yet again into poker challenges with the first season of the World Poker Tour where Andy Bloch finished 3rd in two tournaments.

In 2006, this very much prized Team Full Tilt Player finished 2nd winning over $1 million in what was known as the first $50,000 buy-in HORSE tournament at the World Series of Poker. That same year he also won the Pro Am Poker Equalizer.

Andy Bloch plays online with other Full Tilt players, donating proceeds of his winnings to charity. He remains a licensed lawyer but has practiced this only once after he was arrested in 2003 during an anti-war protest in front of the White House.

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