An MIT and Harvard Law School graduate, Andy Bloch, popularly known as “The Rock,” has managed to earn $3,700,000 and more from professionally playing poker. It has made him very popular amongst his white-collar college batch mates.

It is said that Bloch was born with a set of cards, yet he only took up poker seriously after he finished MIT. During that time he was member of “The Amphibians”, a blackjack club in MIT. There he is said to have made over $100,000 in a single session. With an improvement in his skill through continued playing, he started using the money he won along with what he earned from odd jobs to pay for his studies at the Harvard Law School. After he finished his law school studies he decided to play poker full time.

He has finished amongst the top in several WSOP tournaments, including the famous H.O.R.S.E. tournament held in 2006 and the PotLimit Hold’em World Championship in 2008. In addition to playing poker, he is also a critically acclaimed blackjack player. He is a part of Team Full Tilt and also the author of a DVD and a book. Bloch donates all his Full Tilt earnings to charities, a fact that few people know about him.

Even though rumour has it that Bloch is looking for a law oriented job, it seems highly unlikely that he will quit such a successful poker career. He is man of many facets: a poet, a lawyer-engineer and a great poker player.