Chris Ferguson Challenge with Full Tilt

Television coverage of prestigious live poker events like the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour has made instant celebrities of the winners of those events. One of those famous poker celebrity is Chris Ferguson who is one of the founders of Full Tilt, an online poker site. His Chris Ferguson Challenge with Full Tilt has opened the eyes of poker enthusiasts all over the world on the possibilities one can do with zero starting money in poker.

Chris Ferguson is nicknamed “Jesus” in the poker community due to his trademark long hair and beard. He is a professional poker player who uses science in analyzing poker. Chris spent 18 years in UCLA, five as an undergraduate and thirteen years pursuing a doctorate degree in computer science focusing on the field of virtual network algorithm. Both his parents have doctorate degrees with his father teaching game theory and theoritical probabilities. With the influence of his father's work plus his own educational background, Chris Ferguson creates virtual simulations to improve his poker skills.

Chris Ferguson is a winner of five World Series of Poker Bracelets from winning four World Series of Poker side events and one Main Event in the year 2000. The World Series of Poker is considered the biggest series of live poker tourneys in the planet with prize pools reaching astounding amounts of thirty million.

Chris Ferguson in the year 2007 made history when he achieved his Chris Ferguson Challenge with Full Tilt . The Chris Ferguson Challenge is to get to ten thousand dollars starting from nothing. Chris Ferguson started playing in Freerolls (tourney that has no monetary buy ins) until he had won enough money to bankroll his real money online poker tournaments.

When Chris Ferguson started his run in real money poker games to achieve his Chris Ferguson Challenge with Full Tilt , he had to adhere to certain guidelines in order for him to stay afloat and never lose his entire bankroll. First, he never buys into Multi Table Tournaments that is over two percent of his current bankroll. Second, he also never buys into real money poker games that is over five percent of his current bankroll. Exceptions to the rule is where very small poker games with buy ins of two dollars fifty. Third, when the blinds reach him and pot money in poker games reached ten percent of his bankroll, he leaves the game no matter what.

Using these strict guidelines he set, Chris Ferguson took almost one year to achieve the Chris Ferguson Challenge with Full Til t. He even reached the twenty thousand dollar mark by continuing the ten thousand dollars goal he set. He donated all his winning to charity, the Save the Children Foundation.

Chris Ferguson proved that even without a big capital to bankroll your poker play, one can steady win and improve your bankroll through patience and understanding of the game. No wonder Chris Ferguson is considered one of the best poker players in the entire planet. Several people has since taken up the Chris Ferguson Challenge to see if they could achieve what Chris Ferguson did and even do it at a faster pace.

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