Andrew Black (born July 20, 1965) is a poker player Belfast , Northern Ireland , who currently resides in Dublin .
Black played cards with his mother when he was younger, and started playing more seriously in 1986, while studying for a degree in law at Trinity College, Dublin. was a member of a poker school in the municipality in implementing long-Junior (the JCR), which had previously noted poker players Donnacha O'Dea and Padraig Parkinson as members. He also started playing at the Casino in Dublin, Griffin, reportedly because of the food and free coffee.
E 'was deleted from 1997 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event winner, Stu Ungar . There have been rumors that Ungar was lucky and having defeated Black AK AQ. Black dispelled this item and candidly stated that Ungar "just played better than me" and that the AK vs AQ story was nothing more than journalistic spice.
The following year a documentary entitled Million Dollar Deal (narrated by John Hurt ) was made of his visit to the tournament. When he lost that too, has discarded all his possessions, he went to England and lived in a semi-monastic Buddhist temperature for 5 years.
Black successfully returned to poker in 2004, dominating in the tournament and fifth place in Irish 2005 WSOP Main Event . He led the final table of the main event at one point holding over one third of the chips in play, but was not able to maintain this advantage and finished fifth, winning $ 1.75m.
In 2005 he appeared on chatshow head to head with Richard Herring to discuss his faith and his poker career.
Since the 2005 WSOP Main Event, he made a final money is on European Poker Tour and World Poker Tour . In 2006 Black made the final table of Tournament of Champions , where once again held a huge chip lead only to damage his stack when he overplayed AK and ran into Daniel Negreanu holding pocket kings. Black, once again was eliminated in 5th place earning $ 100,000. Black enjoyed a spectacular start to 2007, according to the release of $ 100,000 Pot Limit Omaha event and 3rd in the No Limit Main Event for $ 750,000 to Millions , Melbourne, Australia. the Grand Final in Monte Carlo , White once again enjoyed a run deep into a major event of the final table before going out on the 7th place for $ 320,000. In 2007, Black won the Pot Limit Omaha side event at the Irish Open. Got € 54,589 for the victory. He defeated Michael Greek heads-up. Al WSOP 2007 , Black finished in the money in two Pot Limit Omaha event, finishing seventh and 11th respectively. the 2007 WSOP Main Event, Black played day 1A. He was an early leader of the chip, building his stack 20,000 to over 80,000. Despite this, Black has not made it past day 1. E 'was eliminated when his 45 ran into AA on a flop of 433.
Entering the 2008 Black was widely regarded as the best pro not to win a major title, but lost that label when he beat Roland De Wolfe heads-up to win Premier League Poker II and $ 250,000. His 2008 continued with a 16th place in WPT World Poker Classic $ 105,525 in cash and further three finishes at the WSOP.
From 2009, his total winnings exceed $ 4,100,000. 16 WSOP cashes as an account for $ 2,189.351000 of those winnings.
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