Isle Open Event 15 (Day 1A): Blake Building As Dinner Break Approaches

2017 Isle Open | Event #15
$1,100 No Limit Hold'em | $150,000 GTD
Level 9 (Blinds 300/600/75)
Total Day 1A Entries: 60

Andrew Blake (Delray Beach, FL) dropped down to 7,000 chips just moments after sitting down at Table 1, but had since done a good job of rebuilding, surpassing the current chip average.

Andrew Blake (Delray Beach, FL) is a partner at Pension Bridge Inc., "an innovative company offering educational conferences of the highest quality, to the Institutional Investment Community" (taken of LinkedIn).  That being said, poker is not his primary source of income, nor is it something Andrew has all the time in his schedule to do.  So when he does get to the tournament tables, it's difficult to not want to get involved in the action right away.  

That's exactly what happened this afternoon, as Blake saw his 20,000 unit starting stack go down to 7,000, in just a matter a minutes.  He still sat with (35) big blinds at the time, but was one of the shortest stacks in the field.  Since that point though, Andrew has steadily built his stack back up, and now sits above the current chip average (which is 36,000).  

Having mentioned Blake's life outside of poker, his tournament resume becomes that much more impressive, with over $192,000 in lifetime earnings.  His three tournament wins have all come here at the Isle, with the most recent coming in June of this year.  Blake won the "June $50,000," a $75 No Limit Hold'em event that had a field of 1,725.  Andrew headed a twelve-way chop of the event, which was worth $9,613.