Andrew Lichtenberger

A young poker player who has already won a WSOP bracelet and is a serious competitor to all the popular stars is Andrew Lichtenberger. He is rightly considered one of the best MTT professionals, has made 5 final tables and has 52nd position in the GPI ranking. His total earnings exceed 20 million dollars and he has played over 130 games. In addition, he co-founded a poker community that teaches beginners, wrote the book “Yoga of Poker” and is actively involved in charity work!

Main Information

His story began in 2009, when he played in the World Series of Poker for the first time. And 7 years later Andrew Lichtenberger became the owner of the coveted bracelet! To learn a little more about this poker legend, check out the brief information below:

Andrew Lichtenberger Biography

Andrew Lichtnebreg was born on September 20, 1987 in Brooklyn, New York. Since junior high school, Andrew was called Chewie. Later in an interview, he will recall, “Chewy has been with me since third grade. My mom would give me a Chewy Granola bar to take to school with me.” A classmate once called me ‘Chewy’ and the nickname stuck.”

As a kid, Andrew loved to ride his bike, scooter, and was into snowboarding. The whole family, along with his mom, dad and brother, played in a bowling league. He even had his own personalized ball.

During his studies, the future poker star worked as an animator in a bowling club, organized parties for children: wrote down their names, delivered food and drinks. It was there that he learned the rules of the card game (while still in high school). The owner of the bowling club often played on partypoker, Andrew Lichtnebreg learned the rules, followed the game and after a while made his first deposit. He went on to attend Stony Brook University in New York. However, he dropped out after a year and a half, because he decided to make poker his profession.

Poker Career

The young poker player started taking his first steps in the game back in 2005, playing online. A few years later, when he gained enough skills, he switched to cash games. In 2007, he entered live MTT tournaments. Two years later, in 2009, he entered the WSOP for the first time and finished second in the Shootout! It was his biggest win at the time – $20,000.

Here are a few more of his early results:

• 2009 40th Annual World Series of Poker (No-Limit Hold’em) – 25th place – $14,413;
• 2009 40th Annual World Series of Poker (Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship) – 17th place – $17,987;
• 2009 40th Annual World Series of Poker (No-Limit Hold’em) – 55th place – $6,319.

Since then, you could often see Andrew Lichtenberger in all sorts of tournaments, even including WSOP final tables. At one of them, in 2019, he practically won his second bracelet with a huge prize pool of $9,172,232! In recent years, the poker player has been consistently in the top 10 at the WPT Championship.

Live Poker Achievements

Andrew Lichtenberger has won huge money here over his 20-year poker career. In total, over 130 live games have been played, including WSOP ($4,428,922), EUROPE ($275,847), and CIRCUIT ($360,045). Here are the stats of the top 5 most successful ones:

Online Poker Achievements

Andrew Lichtenberger started his poker career with online games. There he actively practiced his tactics and at the same time followed the victories of the world’s WSOP stars, such as Chris Moneymaker. A lot has changed since then, but his love for virtual poker has remained. Here are the top 5 most successful games:

Top Five Career Cashes

After his tremendous game in 2016 Andrew Lichtenberger said: “It feels amazing to win”. Since then, he has been enthusiastically participating in cash tournaments and winning big money. Here are 5 of his most successful games:

Andrew Lichtenberger Socials

Andrew Lichtenberger is active on socials. The main part of the content in his profile is devoted, of course, to poker. All the wins, useful tips and funny memes are all about the card game. Here are the links where you can subscribe to the poker player yourself:

• Instagram: @runthistable (the player does not actively publish content on this network);
• Facebook: @andrewlichtenberger;
• X (Twitter): @luckychewy.

Interesting facts of life

• Andrew Lichtenberger often plays with headphones on. He likes to listen to folk music. 
• He has written a book about poker called “The Yoga of Poker”.
• In 2016, he was going to launch his poker room LuckyChewyPoker, but the release did not happen. In the same year, he launched t-shirts with his own logo.
• At the end of 2023, the poker player launched his own platform Ostoriroker AI, where beginners can learn poker and communicate with other players.