"If it's in Honolulu or Wiesbaden - I feel at home everywhere poker is played"
Chris about his love for poker
11.04.1963
Los Angeles, US
Aries
Unmarried
Pacific Palisades, US
USA
PhD Computer Science at the University of California
Computer scientist (research, consulting, etc.), former dancing instructor
Swing dancing
R&B, Jazz, Classical Music
Watamu Beach, Kenya
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Gandhi, Martin Luther King
...during his childhood
Hold'em
Mathematical, analytical
Erik Seidel, Dan Harington, Mike Sexton, Daniel Negreanu
...he would teach people to be more tolerant and accepting, and less hypocritical
...casinos would get very tough on abusive players, so poker can have the respect it deserves
Throws playing cards at fruits and vegetables fast and forcefully enough to cut them in two; spent 18 years in college; worked as a dance instructor at the UCLA swing dance club
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Chris “Jesus” Ferguson
Poker legend Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, born Christopher Philip Ferguson on April 11th, 1963 in Los Angeles, California is, without a doubt, one of the most prominent figures of the poker circuit today. Chris grew up in a wealthy family, his father is a professor teaching game theory and theoretical probability and both parents have a doctoral degree in mathematics. The apple does not fall far from the tree: Chris is also an intellectual at heart, numbers and figures are in his blood, and logical or mathematical connections have always fascinated him...
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