A league championship does not always go to the man who wins the most tournaments. Andrew Shier took the Canterberry League Championship in 2017-18 on the strength of one win and a season of showing up in the money, and that is the whole story of his career in one line.

That win was #99 in March 2018, twenty players, six knockouts, $140 for first — and it came at the thirty-seventh tournament he had ever played. He would win exactly once more: WSOP 2-4 in August 2021, a five-handed field he shared the title in.

Two wins in 94 events. But look at the rest of it: 9 second-place finishes, 25 cashes, 99 knockouts and $2,447 in career prize money. In the World Series of Parker he has three runner-up finishes on top of the win, from nineteen starts — he is at the sharp end of that series constantly.

The biggest single payday of his career is not a win at all. January 2026, Eight Deuce #51, twenty players deep: the last three agreed a split on chip counts and Andrew took $410 for second, more than either of his victories paid.

Heads-up has been unkind — ten appearances, two wins. Eleven years in, he is the player everybody has to get past and almost nobody enjoys drawing, and for one Canterberry season he was better at that than anyone alive.