Chris Ferguson (poker player)

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Chris Ferguson
Chris Ferguson (2007)
Chris Ferguson (2007)
  Personal information  
Date of birth April 11, 1963
place of birth United StatesUnited States los Angeles
Nickname Jesus
Nicknames
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place of residence United StatesUnited States Pacific Palisades
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,500,000
Total prize money $ 9,464,547
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 6th
Cashes 157
Best main event Win ( 2000 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 11
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: August 25, 2020

Christopher "Chris" Philip Ferguson (born April 11, 1963 in Los Angeles , California ) is a professional American poker player .

Ferguson has teamed up with Poker at live tournaments nearly 9.5 million US dollars earned and is nicknamed "Jesus". He is a six-time bracelet winner from the World Series of Poker , where he won the 2000 Main Event and was named Player of the Year in 2017 . As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , he was named one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

education

Ferguson attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received his doctorate in computer science (focus on artificial intelligence ) in 1999 . He studied five years before his first degree and 13 years as a university graduate. His doctoral supervisor was Leonard Kleinrock. Both of Ferguson's parents are PhD mathematicians. His father, Thomas Ferguson, teaches game theory at UCLA.

Poker career

Career

Ferguson was already playing poker at the age of nine. In college, he honed his skills using IRC poker, where he played for money in chat rooms. In 1994 he began to attend tournaments in California and in 1995 he took part in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas for the first time . Ferguson defeated TJ Cloutier in the main tournament of the WSOP 2000 and won the prize money of 1.5 million US dollars. He won three titles in WSOP circuit tournaments . He triumphed in Las Vegas and San Diego and won more than $ 1.2 million. In 2005, Ferguson finished the National Heads-Up Poker Championship second behind Phil Hellmuth . He made it to the finals again in 2006, but again only came in second, this time behind Ted Forrest . In 2008 he finally succeeded in asserting himself against Andy Bloch in the final and thus won $ 500,000. Ferguson was nicknamed " Jesus " because of his trademark: long, brown hair and beard. In April 2006, Chris Ferguson accepted the challenge to win an amount of $ 10,000 from $ 0. He started out in freeroll tournaments and took seven months to get to $ 6.50. After nine more months, it hit the $ 10,000 mark. He donated the money he won to Save the Children . In February 2007, Ferguson won an edition of Poker After Dark for $ 120,000. He defeated Tony G heads-up . In December 2010 he left the poker world for a few years. His comeback followed in the summer of 2016 and he took part in the World Series of Poker 2016 , where he cashed ten times. At the World Series of Poker Europe 2017 at King's Resort in Rozvadov , Ferguson won a Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better tournament and thus his sixth bracelet. He also won the Player of the Year Award at the 2017 WSOP . Overall, he made it into the money 157 times at the WSOP, only Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu made it more often.

Ferguson was also a member of the design team for Full Tilt Poker , an online poker website that opened in July 2004. On September 20, 2011, the US Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker . Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer and Rafe Furst were accused of embezzling client funds as managing directors. Ferguson's attorney denied the allegations, blaming Full Tilt Poker's collapse as a result of management mistakes. On February 20, 2013, Ferguson reached a settlement. He paid a fine of an unknown amount, but without admitting his guilt.

Bracelet overview

Ferguson at the 2006 WSOP

Ferguson cashed 157 times at the WSOP and won six bracelets :

year Buy-in competition Attendees Prize money
2000 E. 0.$ 2500 Seven Card Stud 151 0.$ 151,000
$ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship 512 $ 1,500,000
2001 E. 0.$ 1500 Omaha high / low 306 0.$ 164,735
2003 E. 0.$ 2000 Omaha high / low 175 0.$ 123,680
0.$ 2000 Limit Hold'em & Seven Card Stud 089 0.0$ 66,220
2017 E 0.1650 € Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better 092 0.0€ 39,289

Style of play

His style of play is considered to be extremely tight among established poker players . In the early years of his career, his poker decisions were based exclusively on mathematics and he is therefore, alongside Andy Bloch, a “math guy” (quote from Chris Ferguson: “If you think the math isn ') t important, you don't know the right math ”- in German : If you think that the math [in poker] is not important, you don't know the right math ). These skills are of great advantage to him in tournaments, but make him a rather harmless player in the big cash games . Accordingly, unlike most of his colleagues, he earns his living almost exclusively through tournaments. Ferguson changed the way he played, according to his own statements, as he became more and more predictable due to his increasing popularity from other players who knew him from television. Although he retained the image of the extremely tight player, he has since been able to play more unconventionally.

Web links

Commons : Chris Ferguson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Ferguson in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ WSOP Reveals List of 50 Greatest Players in Poker History , pokernews.com, accessed July 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ Chris Ferguson turns $ 0 into $ 10,000 on Full Tilt Poker ( April 5, 2019 memento on the Internet Archive ) on pokerworks.com August 31, 2007, accessed August 25, 2020.
  4. ↑ Chris Ferguson returns to the WSOP: "I'm only here to play poker". Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ 2017 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) (€ 1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 2, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Chris Ferguson punishes his haters and is WSOP Player of the Year on hochgepokert.com on November 7, 2017, accessed on November 9, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Chris Ferguson in the World Series of Poker database, accessed July 2, 2018.
  8. ↑ Poker pros reportedly ripped off customers , Spiegel Online , accessed on June 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ferguson, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferguson, Christopher Philip (full name); Jesus (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States