Andy Bloch: From the MIT to Poker

Published on February 24, 2011 by kkroz · No Comments

Andy Bloch is an astonishing player, he was born in1969 growing uo in Orange a little suburb of New Heaven in Connecticut. He has always been a card player since he was a kid he liked to play cards with his friend and family too.He very quickly understand how to win and he liked it a lot.

The Skills of Andy Bloch

Before becoming an amazing poker player and a dangerum gambler he got two different degrees at MIT in electrical engineering and also a law degree at Harvard University for good measure.
Andy Bloch lived near the Foxwoods Casino and this factor pluss his accademic inclination lead him to his desitiiny.
During 1993 Andy used his incredible skills to write PC software in order to determine player’s strategies un particular situations. He become incredibl efamous thanks to his skills beating “Hickok 6-card Poker”, the casino had to change the rules of the game and after a while the casino decided to cancel the game.
In 1994 Andy Bloch was part of the MIT BlackJack squad and one of the subject of the famous book “Bringing Down the House”, wrote by Ben Mezrich.
The performance of that infamous team was featured in one amazing DVD called “The Hot Shoe”, that brings a TV appereance in the 2004 during a reality series called “Casino”. He join the MIT and the life in Las Vegas at the same time. Andy Bloch is an excellent BlackJack player and put is skills inside a tutorial DVD called “Beating BlackJack”. Despite the opportunity to get an impressive career thanks to his studies, Andy choose poker and it was a brave choice.
During the 1992 Andy Bloch had the first contact with the world of poker, playing small buy.ins, but he needs few years before entring completely the new world that it’ll become his new life. He won the first event he ever player, a 100$ buy-in No Limit tournament.He choose the World Poker Tour circuit to show his skills and he has good results, a 3rd place during the first season (2002) playing at Foxwoods Finals and earning $102,350, the next year he won $125,460 in the Commerce LA Poker Classic. Since that time he choose to follow the circuit closely.