Andrew Black is starting to emerge as an internationally poker star after he has been successful in his country, Ireland, for an amount of time. He was at Trinity College in Dublin, studying for a degree, in 1986 when he started playing poker regularly. He was a member of Junior Common Room, like many other famous Irish poker players, Padraig Parkinson, is one of them.
He had a very difficult match in 1997 at the WSOP main event against Stu Ungar. Andrew was beaten by Stu's aggressive style of play in a crucial point of the game, when Andrew folded despite the fact he has a better hand. He lost some more games and he retired for a while, but a few years later he got back into playing poker.
In 2004 he returned in major Irish tournaments and he started winning them, gaining the respect of his opponents. In 2005 he returned to the WSOP tournaments, where despite his long history in the game, he didn't stir too much attention.
Nobody thought he is going to make it at the table, but he did, he finished in the fifth place. He had some bad hands and that knocked him out of the game. He went home with $1.75 million but to many he was the real winner of the tournament, not Joseph Hachem.
Now Black wants to win the WSOP tournament and to prove to all that doubted that he still is a great poker player.
