Andy Black - Poker Player Profile

Andrew (Andy) “The Monk” Black, from Dublin, plays poker at FullTiltPoker.com and is a devout Buddhist. He was born July 20, 1965 in Northern Ireland where his mother taught him poker. He went on to Trinity College in Dublin to study law, but was playing poker seriously by 1986 where he played at the Griffin Casino in Dublin. In the main event of the 1997 World Series of Poker, eventual winner Stu Ungar knocked Black out of competition. There were speculations that Ungar beat Black’s AK with an AQ, but Black admitted that he was just outplayed.

In 1998’s WSOP Black had a poor showing in front of the documentary camera crew for the movie Million Dollar Deal and then took 5 years off from poker. Once he returned to poker in 2004 he went on to win many Irish tournaments and eventually placed 5th at the main event of the 2005 WSOP winning $1,750,000 (the 1st place finisher was Joe Jachem).

Since 2009, he has earned over $4 million in live tournament winnings. This includes a 2006 5th place finish at the final table of the Tournament of Champions, a 2nd place finish at the Pot Limit Omaha event and 3rd at the No Limit event at the Aussie Millions tournament. In 2007 he won the Pot Limit Omaha event at the Irish Open; however during the same year at the WSOP he was eliminated on the first day. In 2008 he beat Roland De Wolfe in the Premier League Poker II and later on that year he placed 16th in the World Poker Tour Poker Classic.

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