The player

Name: Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson

Resides: California and Las Vegas

Style of play: Calculating

Tournament winnings: ,823,894

Biggest win: 31st World Series of Poker 2000 – ,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship; 1st, ,500,000

Chris Ferguson is at a loose end. Sitting in the living room of the modest Las Vegas home he shares with his pretty girlfriend Fabiola, Ferguson appears incredibly mellow and simultaneously uncertain about what he wants to do next. He’s recently contributed to a Full Tilt poker book, he played on the American TV shows Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker, and he’s just come back from a World Series circuit event in Omaha, Nebraska.