He must like his Omaha Hi-Lo Split, because in 2003, he won the $2,000 buy-in event for this same game. The next year, Jesus won the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight or Better bracelet, good for over $164,000. While he’s known for his Main Event championship in 2000, Jesus Ferguson had collected another bracelet earlier in that series, winning the $2,500 Seven Card Stud event while taking home $151,000 in the process.
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Overall, he has five World Series of Poker bracelets (not including the WSOP Europe).
(Back then we’d watch anything poker related). Other ESPN features showed Ferguson engaged in his side passion: ballroom dancing. And yes, to answer your question, we DID think it was cool at the time. The segments, shown between hands, will show the former champ throwing a card and slicing a banana and other fruits and vegetables. He was featured countless times during the many broadcasts and repeats of ESPN’s popular WSOP coverage in 20. Poker hadn’t gone mainstream yet when Chris won his championship it took three more years and some cheesy promotional stunts for him to gain his poker fame. Ironically, the act of throwing cards at fruit made Chris more famous than his World Series of Poker Main Event win. The tournament and final table were immortalized in print by author and poker-fan Jim McManus in his best selling book, “Positively 5th Street.” Cloutier heads up, to take home the Main Event, along with $1.5 million dollars.
In 2000, Ferguson outlasted 511 other players, including poker legend T.J. He final tabled the same event the following year, and a string of high finishes in various events leading up to his poker breakthrough in 2000. (Try finding a limit razz tournament anywhere these days). He honed his poker chops both in early poker internet sites (free sites, where you didn’t play for money), and in low limit stud and hold’em games in Southern California and Las Vegas.Ĭhris Ferguson first cashed in a World Series of Poker Tournament in 1995, when he finished in 5th place in a $1,500 limit Razz event.
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