Chris Ferguson is known for his inimitable style when he played poker. With its Eternals (comics) long hair and his beard there long inherited from the nickname "Jesus". It is also known and recognized for its ability to adopt the same timing in each of his moves and his attitude is always the same: hidden behind his cowboy hat and his black glasses it is strictly impossible to read anything.
Chris Ferguson was bathed in an ideal environment to learn poker since his father teaches game theory and the probabilities at UCLA University. In this same University Chris Ferguson received a doctora in computer science.
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson began poker before the age of 10 years and is played at the lycée on IRC channels. But his career in the poker starts really in 1994 when he began playing tournaments.
Chris Ferguson, alongside Howard Lederer, is behind Sitemap Online, poker full tilt poker. With other partners they thus creates the 2nd most popular site in attendance, an able to gather more than 60,000 people on their software Mastodon. Today the income generated by fulltilt are undoubtedly the main source of income of Chris Ferguson who can afford to play poker just for fun.
However, Chris Ferguson gains are impressive with more than $ 7,000,000 accumulated in tournaments, thereby placing all top players from the world.
Son palmarès en détail
His top detail world series of Poker (WSOP) Chris Ferguson succeeded the vast majority of its performance in the world series of Poker. That is all in 2000, when he successively won a bracelet in seven stud to win the main event face T.J Cloutier. It actually causes a bad beat in Cloutier, but regardless, this victory Announces of others.
In total it now has 5 bracelets and has completed 56 times in paid, places today to be the 3rd place in the rankings behind .Phil Hellmuth et Men "The Master" Nguyen.
| 2003 : $2,000 1/2 Limit Hold'em - 1/2 Seven Card Stud |
$66,220 |
| 2003 : $2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight or Better |
$123,680 |
| 2001 : $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight or Better |
$164,735 |
| 2000 : $10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship |
$1,500,000 |
| 2000 : $2,500 Seven Card Stud |
$151,000 |
Chris Ferguson does was never particularly interested in the World Poker Tour, preferring to concentrate on the WSOP. He however finished 7 times in the money and made a final table.
Other performance Chris Ferguson succeeded exceptional performance in the NBC National head ' s up Poker Championship. In effect in 2005 and 2006 he was able to reach the final respectively losing face Phil Hellmuth and Ted Forrest front in 2008 to win the tournament by beating Andy Bloch.That allows him to have statistics exceptional 16 WINS for only 3 defeats, giving the best results of all participants.
Chris Ferguson also managed a performance by transforming $ 1 in $ 20,000 in 6 months playing poker online and later has réedité performance assuming this $ 0 time to reach $ 10,000.
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