Andy Frankenberger

Andy Frankenberger, born on 9 March 1973, is a professional poker player and former equity derivatives trader from New York City. In his first year as a professional he was named World Poker Tour Season IX Player of the Year, which Card Player Magazine described as one of poker's best rookie years in a September 2011 cover story, and he followed it by winning back to back bracelets at the World Series of Poker in 2011 and 2012. He grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, studied Russian at Phillips Academy, spent a semester in Siberia on an exchange program where he became fluent in Russian, and graduated from Duke University with degrees in Economics and Russian. He then worked on Wall Street for 14 years, joining the team that founded the currency trading desk for JP Morgan in Moscow. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, on Fox Business Network and on Bloomberg Television, and as of June 2012 his live tournament winnings exceeded 2,500,000 dollars.