Andy Black (poker player)
| Andy Black | |
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 Andy Black (2008) |
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | July 20, 1965 |
| place of birth |
 Belfast
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| Nickname | The Monk |
| place of residence |
 Dublin
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| Live Poker Tournament Achievements | |
| Highest prize money | $ 1,750,000 |
| Total prize money | $ 4,861,416 |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelets | no |
| Cashes | 36 |
| Best main event | 5th ( 2005 ) |
| Main Event of the World Poker Tour | |
| title | no |
| Cashes | 3 |
| Main event of the European Poker Tour | |
| title | no |
| Cashes | 6th |
| Main Event of party poker Live | |
| title | no |
| Cashes | 4th |
| Last updated: February 17, 2020 | |
Andrew "Andy" Black (born July 20, 1965 in Belfast , Northern Ireland ) is a professional Irish poker player who currently lives in Dublin . He is nicknamed The Monk .
Career
Black learned poker from his mother and started playing in earnest in 1986 when he graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a law degree.
He was a member of a prestigious poker school that has had respectable players like Donnacha O'Dea and Padraig Parkinson in the past . Black also started playing at the Griffin Casino in Dublin, allegedly just for the free coffee and buffet. When he was 32, he played in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker 1997 in Las Vegas with. He was eliminated in his first major tournament by the eventual winner Stu Ungar by a bad beat . The following year, the documentary Million Dollar Deal (narrated by John Hurt ) about Black was filmed at the 1998 WSOP Main Event . After leaving he gave his old life and lived and worked for a few years with other Buddhists in English Cambridge . Black made a very successful return to poker in 2004. He managed a fifth place at the Main Event of the 2005 WSOP . He had at the final table in the meantime a third of the chips by some was bad beats and their own mistakes but only fifth and won 1.75 million dollars . He then graduated very successfully from the European Poker Tour and the World Poker Tour . He finished seventh in the 2007 EPT finals in Monte-Carlo and won $ 320,000. In 2006, Black made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions . He finished fifth and won $ 100,000. In 2007 he got off to a spectacular start. He won Australian dollars at the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne by finishing second in the $ 3,000 A Omaha and third in the main event . In February 2008, Black won the PartyPoker.com Premier League's second season for a $ 250,000 win bonus.
Black was one of the pros at Full Tilt Poker . He has over $ 4.5 million in revenue from official live poker tournaments, making him the top Irish poker player .
Web links
- Andy Black in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
- Andy Black in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
- Andy Black in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker II ($ 60,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 10, 2017.
- ↑ Andy Black in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 10, 2017.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Black, Andy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Black, Andrew (full name); The Monk (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish poker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast , Northern Ireland , UK |