Andy Bloch Interview with Poker News Daily

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Poker News Daily: How did you get started in poker? Bloch: I always played games growing up. I started playing poker in Boy Scouts, then with my school friends, and then played a little bit in college. They were mostly nickel, dime, and quarter games. I didn't really get into poker in casinos until right after I graduated college, when Foxwoods opened up in Connecticut. I started going there and got bored with my job. I then got fired from a job and so played there a lot more. I started with the MIT Blackjack Team through a friend I met in a poker game in the Boston area. When my project got canceled, I decided to play blackjack and poker full time. Read more »

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Andy Bloch – Poker Player Profile

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Andy "The Rock" Bloch must really enjoy going to alumni reunions: with two Electrical Engineering Degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School, he has managed to make a fortune of over $3,700,000 playing poker for a living. He must be quite the hero among his white-collar former classmates. Read more »

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