Chris "Jesus" Ferguson

Chris Ferguson didn’t start life as a poker player – he started out as an academic. Ferguson spent exactly half his life at UCLA, with five years earning an undergrad and another 13 as a graduate student. For all of his hard work, he earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

In 2000, Ferguson defeated TJ Cloutier to win the Main Event in the 2000 World Series of Poker. It marked the beginning of a professional poker career.

Ferguson started playing poker online quickly became a high ranking tournament player. In 1994, he recognized that his knowledge of game theory was a powerful weapon and began playing in the small tournaments in and around LA. A year later, Ferguson played in his first World Series of Poker event. He made seven final tables and had 12 money finishes, peaking at fourth place.

Ferguson won the Championship Event in 2000, being his second bracelet that year along with his win in the 7-Card Stud event. A well-rounded player, Ferguson won his next bracelet in the 2001 Omaha Hi/Lo Split event, followed by two more wins in 2003.

Since he started playing in the World Series, he has won five bracelets, made 25 final tables (25), and had 42 money finishes. With his recent World Series of Poker Circuit win and another final table finish, Ferguson has earned more than $4,000,000 playing poker in the WSOP and WSOP circuit alone.

In March, 2006 Ferguson navigated his way through a tough 64-person field to score his second consecutive, second-place finish at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

Ferguson recently returned to the world of online poker, this time applying his own ideas to improve Internet poker. He put together a team of players and programmers to design the software for Full Tilt Poker.

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