Andrew Robl: The Biggest Winner in Cash Game Poker?

If you asked a casual poker fan who the best poker player in the world was, names like Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth would certainly come up, but Andrew Robl might not.

Despite that, Andrew Robl is considered by many today to be one of the best cash game poker players in the world, and has often been suggested as possibly the biggest winner in the game, period!

But who exactly is Andrew Robl, where did he come from, and how did he achieve such great success in poker at a relatively young age?

If you have been asking yourself those questions after seeing Robl dominate on High Stakes Poker or other venues, then you have come to the right place, as we have all the information on Andrew Robl in one place, right here.

Andrew Robl Poker Career Highlighs

• Started playing online poker under moniker “good2cu”
• Specializes in cash game poker
• Won almost $6 million in televised poker games alone
• Considered to be the biggest cash game winner in the world
• Won over $5.5 million in live poker tournaments
• Runs the biggest private games in the world

Andrew Robl’s Early Life and Upbringing

Born in Okemos, Michigan, on September 27, 1986, Andrew Robl may seem like a stereotypical white American male, but he’s definitely anything but.

In fact, Robl started down a path of his own at a very young age, making a conscious decision to quit his education early and follow his passion.

At a young age, while still in high school, Robl fell in love with the game of poker while watching the ESPN coverage of the World Series of Poker, which were absolutely exploding in the years of the Moneymaker Poker Boom.

Robl started playing poker with his friends, but also in online games, before officially turning 21, and could not seem to wait to pursue the game in a more serious fashion.

Andrew finished high school and was supposed to go off to college like so many of his friends, but ended up making close to $100,000 playing online poker that summer alone.

Instead of joining a college and going down the path traveled by most, Robl decided to move to Las Vegas and pursue a life of a poker player instead.

The decision he made then ended up being the best he could make, as it changed his life forever, and introduced him to a life he could hardly have ever dreamed of.

Andrew Robl’s Cash Game Poker Career

Andrew Robl started his poker journey under the screenname “good2cu,” a moniker which many were frightened off in the online poker games of early 2000s.

Online poker games at Full Tilt Poker were huge at the time, and Robl was in the mix, playing with the likes of Tom Dwan, Phil Galfond, Phil Ivey, and Patrik Antonius for the highest stakes available in those days.

Robl was one of the big winners in those games, but his relatively short online poker career only opened the doors for his future success in live poker.

As Black Friday came around and American players lost the privilege to play online poker at major sites, Robl slowly drifted towards live poker, with private cash games being his path to poker success.

Instead of playing in public games for low stakes against amazing players, Robl found a way to join plenty of private games where lots of players were gambling it up, and the stakes were huge.

While these private games are very private indeed, there is plenty of record of Robl’s success in cash game poker as well.

Over the last 15 years since he first appeared in a televised cash game show, Andrew has won just under $6,000,000 in such shows, more than any player in the world!

That’s right! Andrew Robl is currently the biggest winner in televised or live-streamed poker games in the world, and his profit stands at about $6,000,000 in these games alone.

That said, Robl has only played 167 hours playing poker on TV, and while his $6 million profit is almost certainly above his expected hourly win-rate, you can only imagine how much money he has won in the countless thousands of hours he’s spent playing the game off the camera.

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In those 15 years, he’s been a staple on poker shows like High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, No Gamble No Future, and Triton Poker, as well as plenty of others.

There are often claims of Andrew just running hot in every game he plays floating around, but just recently he was on the losing end of the biggest pot in High Stakes Poker history against high-roller Santhosh Suvarna, which amounted to almost a million dollars.

Yet, despite any losses he incurs along the way, Robl has found a way to stay at the top and continue accumulating profits with each passing year.

According to a recent interview with Tony G, which was conducted by PokerNews, Andrew Robl may just be the single man who’s made the most money from poker out there.

While a big chunk of that comes from his table winnings, perhaps even more comes from running some of the biggest games in the world with the help of Jean Robert Bellande, another legend in the high stakes poker circles.

In fact, Tony G floated a number worth “hundreds of millions” that Andrew has made in poker, and while there is no exact way to confirm such statements, the word of the Lithuanian business mogul and founder of PokerNews certainly says a lot.

Andrew Robl’s Tournament Poker Career

One thing that’s become more than clear about Andrew Robl over the years is that he is a cash game poker player and any involvement he may have in tournaments is only sporadic.

Yet, playing them only once in a while, Robl has managed  to win $5.6 million in poker tournaments, a lot of which has come from very high-stakes events at various stops around the world.

Robl’s first tournament poker scores were recorded back in 2007, when he was already playing WPT and WSOP events for $5k and above.

His biggest tournament poker score to date came in 2013, when he won the $100,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions Poker Championship for $1,055,699 and scored the most notable piece of poker hardware in his career.

In 2022, Robl came inches away from winning a WSOP bracelet as well when he placed second in the $7,777 NLH WSOP Online event for $231,214, losing out to Englishman Harry Lodge.

Aside from these, Robl has recorded plenty of other cashes in high-stakes tournaments, but their relatively low number has to do with the fact he is far too busy playing the cash games to give the tournaments a proper chance.

What’s more, Robl has publically spoken about the fact that tournament pros at the highest level have become some of the best players in the world, and they are not worth trying to compete against.

Robl said: “When I first got started, and maybe until three years ago, all the best players were cash game players. In my opinion, they were better, more sophisticated and had a deeper understanding of the game than tournament players. I think that’s changed. These high stakes tournament players, they have almost the perfect game.”

Andrew Robl’s Net Worth

The question that everyone in the poker world has been asking lately is, how much money does Andrew Robl have, and did he really make it all from poker?

The one thing we can tell you is that he certainly made it all from poker, although it is possible some smart investments were made along the way as well to help with the growth.

Yet, the exact number remain unknown, as cash game players are notoriously private about such things, and Andrew in particular seems to have his hand in more than one cookie jar.

Robl has been known for staking players in some of the biggest poker games in the world, including Jean Robert Bellande and others, as well as running such games himself, potentially making tens of millions in profit from such a business venture.

Tony G at one point hinted that he’s made hundreds of millions from poker, which means Andrew Robl’s net worth could be even higher than previously thought.

Yet, we are going to go with a modest estimate and say that Andrew Robl’s net worth is currently in the $50,000,000 range, although the number could be significantly higher and a lot of outstanding debt could exist towards this high-stakes poker legend.

Where Is Andrew Robl Today?

If you are wondering about the whereabouts of Andrew Robl today, you are not alone, as this international man of mystery is not easily located in any single place.

Living a life of luxury and traveling the world to play and organize some of the biggest poker games in the world, Andrew is often found in every corner of the world, from Las Vegas to Macau and from Australia to Europe and beyond.

You can be pretty sure to see Andrew Robl quite often at some of the biggest poker festivals in the world, but only if the stakes in the tournaments are high enough to attract the kinds of players Andrew enjoys playing with.

Triton Poker Series is one that often sees Robl lurking behind the stage looking for a good cash games, and TV poker shows like High Stakes Poker and No Gamble No Future also seem to be quite attractive to him.

Little is known about Andrew ‘s life away from poker or his private affairs, as it seems that at the age of 37 Robl still enjoys playing poker more than anything else in the world.

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Zvonimir Potocki

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