chris ferguson on launchpoker... LOL

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BAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHA!!! BBV? i laughed real hard

http://www.launchpoker.com/players/w...ris-ferguson-/

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About Ferguson In Brief

Chris Ferguson, 2000 WSOP winner. Unlike most of the WSOP winners poker he’s not crazy about poker. And he doesn’t think that it is his only true calling. He’s also fond of ballroom dancing : “I do all ballroom dances… the foxtrot, waltz, tango, mambo, but these days I mostly dance the West Coast swing, the latest form of swing dance”. Though I know another man who is simultaneously a poker player and a dancer. You know him: Mike Sexton.

Chris – is one these unique poker players who love competition more than money. Chris himself says that he plays poker for competition.

Jesus And Poker

When you at Ferguson’s cowboy hat you think that he is one of these guys that are any mathematical skills. But that is what Chris wants you to think. Actually he has a major in computer science (artificial intelligence). Moreover his father teaches statistics and game theory at U.C.L.A., his mother has a Ph.D. in mathematics… Nice family! So, Chris began to play when he was very young. When in college he played only in $1-2 and $2-4 games, but played very tightly. This strategy guaranteed him $4 an hour. After he had won at a big blackjack tournament he decided to expand and move to the higher limits. Shortly after he began to play high-stakes games he understood that “ the best way to learn to play better is to play against the top players”.

There is another reason why Ferguson prefer to earn his poker experience in tournaments: he’s not ready to spend the whole life playing poker. As for practice opportunities he uses his computer to deduce his own winning formulas. Chris says that there are many different styles of play that allow to win: “Two people may be dealt the same hand, play it quite differently, and yet both will be successful.”

A9 Against AQ – A Winning Hand?

In 2000 Chris Ferguson won at the WSOP. It was unbelievable. Chris had A9 while T.J. Cloutier was sitting with AQ. The turn looked this way: 2K4K… Chris could suppose that T.J. could have another king. But he stayed in game to see that the fifth card was 9 and to win the main event.

But what is really unusual about this A9 hand is that the day before Annie Duke played with the same hand. And she lost… to Ferguson. That’s how Chris got the chips required to play further.


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