Cherish Andrews is well known for her remarkable deep runs in the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour. Andrews is one of the top female players of this decade with over $2.6 million in tournament earnings and three WSOP circuit rings with one bracelet victory. In this report, we will delve into her poker career journey, earnings, and winnings.
Who is Cherish Andrews?
Cherish Andrews is an American poker player from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. According to her profile on the WSOP, Andrews learned poker at the age of 14 from her older brothers and got hooked on it forever. Since then, there has been no looking back. She has been consistently climbing up the ranks and today she is regarded as one of the best female poker players.
Andrews, who won the Global Poker Index Female Player of the Year title for her power-packed performance in 2022, is currently ranked 16th on the Women’s all-time money list.
Cherish Andrews’ Poker Career Highlights and Earnings
Cherish Andrews scored her first recorded live cash in 2008 in a local tournament, earning $460 for an 11th-place finish. She continued playing mid-stakes live tournaments and scored final table finishes before jumping into prestigious tournaments like PCA and WSOP in 2011.
She scored 6th place in the 2011 PCA $1,100 NLH 6-Max and earned $17,600. That year she also cashed in four WSOP events, banking for almost $30k. She made a cash finish in the 2011 WSOP Main Event and earned a whopping $23,876. Although Andrews didn’t achieve any big cash that year, she laid the foundation for her next World Series of Poker in 2012.
In 2012, she returned to the WSOP and came to create history. In the 43rd Annual WSOP Event #31: $1,500 NLH Andrews made it into the final table and was on the quest to become the first woman to win an open event since the victory of Vanessa Selbst in 2008. Unfortunately, she fell short of her first bracelet but banked a six-figure sum of $210,083 for her 4th place finish. She concluded the year with a money finish in the WPT Borgata Championship Event for $12,785.
After a dry 2013, Andrews again ran deep in the WSOP and came close to her first bracelet, but couldn’t get past the 5th position in a $1,500 NLH Event, taking home another six-figure payday of $142,346. After this event, Andrews played a few events and returned in 2017 for a short period. From 2017 to 2018, she played and cashed in prestigious poker series, including WSOP and World Poker Tour. After a 121st finish in the 2019 WPT Main Event, Andrews left the poker world only to re-enter it again in 2021. In 2021, she scored two final table finishes in the 52nd Annual World Series of Poker. She came 8th in the $1,000 NLH Ladies Championship for $11,341 and finished 6th in the $1,500 NLH WSOP Closer for a whopping $74,680.
2022 was the break-out year for the female pro. She began the year with a 25th-place finish in the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event for $27,810 and followed that up with a $88,615 payday for her podium finish in the $5k NLH Deepstack in the same festival. She also made it to the final nine of the $1,000 NLH Ladies Championship at the 53rd WSOP for $12,965. She didn’t win any bracelet that summer, but was able to win her first bracelet in the 2022 WSOP Online $1,000 NLH Championship for $31,986. Andrews wrapped up 2022, with three final table finishes at the 2022 WPT World Championship, including her victory in the $1,100 NLH event for $131,912. She also scored a runner-up finish in the $10,100 NLH High Roller in the WPT World Championship for a whopping career-high payout of $259,200.
In 2022, Cherish Andrews earned $758,513 and scored 2,835 POY points to win the 2022 Global Poker Index Female Player of the Year title after beating Angela Jordison.
Andrews continued her impressive run in 2023 as well. Her first win of the year came in the Wynn MIllions Poker Series as she won a $400 NLH for $42,230. She then won the $1,100 NLH Deepstack Turbo in the WPT Seminole Hard Poker Showdown for $31,105. In October 2023, she won her career’s first WSOP circuit ring by winning the $215 Limit Hold’em Deepstack for $6.061. She wrapped up 2023, with several cash finishes in the WSOP Online Circuit.
2024 has been going strong for the female pro. Earlier this year, she won the $2,200 NLH 6-Max in the Wynn Millions Poker for a six-figure sum of $182,927. Andrews added another circuit ring to her name by winning the $1,000 buy-in High Roller in WSOP Circuit Online for $22,770. She also competed in her first EPT Barcelona series this year and earned over $50k for her three cash finishes in the series.
She went on to win the $1,600 NLH event in the Wynn Fall Classic for another six-figure sum of $119,453. Andrew kickstarted December with her third WSOP circuit ring by winning the $1,100 NLH Ring Event in the WSOP Circuit North Carolina for another whopping $108,971. The recent 2024 WPT World Championship also went well for the female pro. She made it into the money in the WPT Prime Championship, ClubWPT Gold $5M Invitational Freeroll, $1,100 NLH, and $3,000 NLH 6-Max along with a final table finish in a NLH event earning almost $40k.
As of now, she has earned over $2.6 million in tournament earnings from 199 cashes. Putting herself among the elite female poker players.
Cherish Andrews Top 5 Tournament Payouts
| Tournament | Rank | Payout |
| WPT World Championship $10,100 NLH High Roller | 2nd | $259,200 |
| WSOP $1,500 NLH | 4th | $210,083 |
| Wynn Millions $2,200 NLH 6-Max | 1st | $182,927 |
| WSOP $1,500 NLH | 5th | $142,346 |
| WPT World Championship $1,100 NLH | 1st | $131,912 |
Where is Cherish Andrews Now?
Cherish Andrews is still active in the poker world and currently resides in her home state, Pennsylvania with her longtime boyfriend and fellow poker player Brock Wilson. She also travels to Las Vegas frequently to compete in live poker tournaments hosted at the Wynn Las Vegas, which she sarcastically calls her home.
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