Andrew Moreno, the husband of former PokerNews hostess Kristy Moreno (former Kirsty Arnett), has been playing poker since the early 2000s. Originally from the Midwest where he worked at a factory running a steel-cutting machine, Moreno met his future wife after overhearing her talk about poker.
In 2006, the duo moved to Las Vegas where he started grinding $1-$2 no-limit hold��em cash games, working his way up to $25-$50 over the next decade. In 2021, Moreno turned his attention to tournaments with two goals �C to surpass $1 million in lifetime earnings (he was $100K short at the time) and to notch his first seven-figure score.
It didn��t take him long to accomplish both.
First, in June 2021, he won the Venetian DeepStack Championship Poker Series Event #58: $1,100 NLH for $127,740 to meet his first goal. Just over a week later, he accomplished the other when he topped a 1,328-entry field to win the inaugural $10,000 buy-in Wynn Millions for $1,460,106, a win that vaulted Moreno into the next level of poker superstar.
Since then he also won another Venetian tournament in February 2022 for $242,293 (a tournament he famously refused to chop), and in the summer of 2022 nearly won another Wynn major, ultimately finishing runner-up in the Wynn Summer Classic $3,500 Championship for $460,529.
��What I��ve learned over the years is that poker and life are mirrors for one another,�� said Moreno, who welcomed his first child shortly after his career scores in 2021. ��Both are skill games with elements of luck. Whatever holds you back in poker, holds you back in life, whether it��s an unhealthy attachment to money, inability to take calculated risks, inflated ego, or self doubt. Improve your game, improve your life, and vice versa.��
As of September 2022, Moreno has just shy of $3.5 million in lifetime tournament earnings according to The Hendon Mob.
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