Chris Ferguson
| Chris Ferguson | |
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Ferguson at the 2007 World Series of Poker
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| Nickname(s) | Jesus |
| Residence | Pacific Palisades, California, U.S. |
| Born | Christopher Philip Ferguson April 11, 1963 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | 5 |
| Money finish(es) | 63 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish |
Winner, 2000 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | 2 |
| Money finish(es) | 11 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Money finish(es) | 1 |
Christopher Philip "Chris" Ferguson (born April 11, 1963) is an American 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.
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.
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.
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.
Ferguson began playing poker at the age 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. 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 entered the WSOP main event, earning $120,000 for his 26th-place finish (out of 2,576 players). Also in 2004, Ferguson helped launch the online poker site Full Tilt Poker.
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