WSOP 2007: Andy Bloch

Card Player: How has the Series been for you?

Andy Bloch: It's going pretty rough, I haven't cash in any event other than a couple of H.O.R.S.E. mega-satellites. I chopped 'em. Then I just cashed in two events back to back, the deuce-to-seven triple draw and the $10K pot-limit Omaha. I almost made the final table in both of them.

[Bloch was 11th in the pot-limit Omaha and seventh in the triple draw, which plays sixhanded.]

AB: But with that I am still down for the Series. When you play a $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. and don't cash, you can easily be down for the entire WSOP. I do feel like I am playing well and looking forward to the main event.

[[Bloch did not survive his day one in the main event.]

CP: What does Harrah's need to work on for next year?

AB: It's a long list of things. They need to open up the process of planning a bit. The players' committee is a good start, but I think a lot of the things the committee did were done in relative secrecy from the rest of the poker community. The structures should be made more public. They need to have far better rules and procedures.

There are so many little things that do not affect the players directly. Like I cannot believe they still do not have decent dealer chairs. They should be ashamed of the chairs they have for the dealers. There are a lot of things like that where I think they are really cutting corners. With the juice they are charging and not giving back to the players and the money they are bringing in from all the sponsors. They should be a little bit embarrassed about that.

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