Top 10 Poker Rooms

Player		Location
	Doyle Brunson	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	Gus Hansen	Copenhagen, Denmark
	Johnny Chan	Cerritos, CA, United States
	Annie Duke	Los Angeles, CA, United States
	Andy Bloch	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	Phil Hellmuth	Palo Alto, CA, United States
	Phil Ivey	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	Ted Forrest	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	Kathy Liebert	Las Vegas, NV, United States
	John Juanda	Marina Del Rey, CA, United States

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Andrew Bloch, a reputable poker professional, breathed life into this world on June 1, 1969. The highly experienced poker player was able to combine school with playing the game of cards by successfully completing two Engineering degrees in Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Andrew Bloch began playing poker with much enthusiasm in 1992 while playing with the MIT blackjack team and earning some $35 bills per week. His playing skills were put to test at the no-limit Texas hold'em tournament, which he won and claimed a $100 prize. That was to be his first top level poker game.

In spite of Andrew Bloch’s hitch in claiming the most coveted prizes, though with the exception of the 2002 World Series Of Poker tournament at Foxwoods, he was yet able gain more popularity by finishing 3rd at two World Poker Tour tournaments after kissing two WSOP final gaming tables goodbye in 2001. Bloch, who chose to participate in the 1997 WSOP tournament as against rounding off his law school classes, emerged winner in the Ultimate Poker Challenge 2nd season tournament.

Andrew Bloch has his name written on poker’s Blackjack hall of fame with more than $100,000 earned from playing the game. While playing, he featured in a Blackjack documentary known as The Hot Shoe apart from his produced video, Beating Blackjack. He plays membership roles in the Team Full Tilt as well as the MIT Blackjack Team.

The great poker player has won several accolades that include beating Phil Laak at the Pro-Am Poker Equalizer to clinch the top prize of $500,000; finishing 2nd and claiming $50,000 in the 2006 World Series Poker (H.O.R.S.E. event); and Chris Ferguson’s runner-up in the NBC National Poker Championship (Heads-Up). That’s not all, Andrew Bloch collected a $488,048 prize when he finished 2nd to Nenad Medic at the 2008 WSOP Pot-Limit Hold’em event, thereby bringing his cumulative live tournament earnings of about four million dollars ($4,000,000).

Andrew Bloch, popularly known as Andy, is also known for his charity works. He has dedicated all his earnings from the Full Tilt Poker to numerous charitable organizations all over the world in addition to his $100,000 donations from the Pro-Am Equalizer winnings to charitable organizations working in Dafur. Upon his qualification for the 2006 WSOP Main Event through an online tournament, Andrew Bloch was so enthralled that he directed the winning monetary reward to a charity.