Player Profile - Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
Hometown: Pacific Palisades, California, USA
WSOP Bracelets: 5
Career Tournament Earnings: $5.9 million
Chris “Jesus” Ferguson is hands down the most credentialed player at this final table, and is one of the most successful tournament players of all time. He has five WSOP bracelets including winning the 2000 Main Event Championship after beating T.J. Cloutier heads up.
He has also won bracelets in $2,500 7 Card Stud (2000), $1,500 Omaha 8 (2001), $2,000 Omaha 8 (2003), and $2,000 1/2 Limit Hold'em - 1/2 Seven Card Stud (2003). Ferguson has made 27 final tables at the WSOP including today. He is currently 20th on the all-time money winner list, and is also a champion ballroom dancer, and can slice through carrots with the pitch of a card.