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Nickname(s)
  
Title(s)
  
None

Parents
  
Thomas Ferguson

Money finish(es)
  
63

Role
  
Professional Poker Player

Bracelet(s)
  
5

Name
  
Chris Ferguson


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Residence
  
Pacific Palisades, California, U.S.

Born
  
Christopher Philip Ferguson April 11, 1963 (age 60) Los Angeles, California, U.S. (
1963-04-11
)

Education
  
University of California, Los Angeles

Movies
  
Good Time Gang, Howard Lederer: Poker Fantasy Reality

TV shows
  
High Stakes Poker, National Heads‑Up Poker Ch, Poker Superstars Invitation, Doubles Poker Championship, Face the Ace

Similar People
  
Howard Lederer, Robin Schorr, Max Landis, Seth Grossman, Henry Orenstein

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Highest ITMMain Event finish
  
Winner, 2000

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Christopher Philip "Chris" Ferguson (born April 11, 1963) is an American professional poker player. He has won five World Series of Poker events, including the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

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On September 20, 2011, the U.S. Justice Department filed a motion to amend a civil complaint, complaining that Ferguson and three other directors of the poker website Full Tilt Poker were running a Ponzi scheme that paid out $444 million of customer money to themselves and the firm's owners.

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Early life and education

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Ferguson was born in Los Angeles, California. Both Ferguson's parents have doctoral degrees in mathematics and his father, Thomas Ferguson, teaches game theory and theoretical probability at UCLA.

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Ferguson attended UCLA, where he earned a Ph.D. in computer science (focusing on virtual network algorithms) in 1999 after five years as an undergraduate and 13 years as a graduate student. His Ph.D. advisor was Leonard Kleinrock.

Poker career

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Ferguson began playing poker at the age of 10. In college, he honed his skill on IRC poker playing online for play money in chat rooms. In 1994, he began playing in tournaments in California and in 1995, he entered his first World Series of Poker. He is a relatively quiet player who often adopts a characteristic motionless pose to avoid providing information to his opponents. He adopted his trademark wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses consciously, to point towards a table image that does not display outright the fact that he was a college student. Ferguson is nicknamed "Jesus" because of his trademark long brown hair and beard. His style is highly mathematical, using a strong knowledge of game theory and developing computer simulations to improve his understanding of the game.

Ferguson beat T. J. Cloutier heads-up at the Main Event of the 2000 WSOP to win the $1.5 million prize. In 2004, he earned $120,000 in the Main Event for his 26th-place finish (out of 2,576 players).

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Ferguson finished runner-up to Phil Hellmuth in the 2005 National Heads-Up Poker Championship. He made the finals again in 2006, but again finished second, this time to Ted Forrest. In 2008, he made the finals for the third time, this time defeating Andy Bloch and winning the title.

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In 2017, Ferguson set the record for most cashes at a single World Series with 17. The record was later tied by John Racener also in 2017.

As of 2017, his total live tournament winnings exceed $8,900,000. His 90 WSOP cashes account for over $6,000,000 of those winnings.

World Series of Poker bracelets

In addition to his five bracelets, Ferguson was the first player to have won three World Series of Poker Circuit rings.

Full Tilt Poker scandal

In 2004, Ferguson was one of the founder of the online poker site Full Tilt Poker. On September 20, 2011, the United States Department of Justice amended an existing civil complaint against Full Tilt Poker, an online poker company of which Chris Ferguson was a director. The amended complaint alleged that Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer and Rafe Furst "lined their own pockets with funds picked from the pockets of their most loyal customers while blithely lying to both players and the public alike about the safety and security of the money deposited.” A lawyer for Ferguson denied the allegations, suggesting that the issues may have been the result of mismanagement not malice. The case was dismissed February 19, 2013 yielding insofar that money be paid out by Ferguson and limitations placed on his website and the legality of online poker.

Personal life

His interests include his presidency of a swing dancing club at UCLA, as well as his ability to throw playing cards fast enough to cut through bananas, carrots, and even melons. His card throwing ability was showcased on some a side cutaway, called "The Nuts", on the ESPN broadcast of the World Series of Poker.

References

Chris Ferguson Wikipedia