Table 1 Podcast20 Sep 2025

The Man Who Catches Poker's Biggest Cheaters. Meet John Andress!

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Meet John Andress.

Grew up outside Philly. Played lacrosse at Penn State. Obsessed over Counter-Strike.

Accidentally turned a Puerto Rico casino trip into an $8k “beer money” bankroll.

By senior year of college? $150k in his poker account.

Six months later? Nearly dusted it. Then hit for $60k at PCA and never looked back.

John has lived the full poker arc: Black Friday moves to Toronto, huge scores in Europe (including tilting Luke Schwartz in Prague), New York DJ lifestyle, Bay Area private games… and now? He’s running A5 Labs, a 200-person tech team building AI that hunts bots and collusion across online poker.

This episode is funny, wild, and brutally honest. It’s about how obsession becomes opportunity, how every poker player eventually faces the “what’s next” moment, and how John turned his into a career shaping the entire industry.

Show Notes

00:00 – Early Life & Penn State
07:22 – Counter Strike
10:19 – Finding Poker
15:49 – Making Poker Friends
19:23 – Life as a Poker Pro
24:35 – The Luke Schwartz Story
26:47 – Moving Across The Country
31:12 – Getting Into The Poker Security Industry
40:25 – How The Anti-Cheating Software Works
49:11 – Does John Still Care About Poker?
53:51 – Growing the Company
58:58 – Family Life + Poker + Business
1:04:35 – Golf?
1:10:34 – The Future! (And That Pesky Card Showing Feature)

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