Chris Ferguson on His Poker Strategies

Chris Ferguson, a professional poker player known in the poker world, divulges his poker strategies.  Although he does not claim that his strategies always work, it has been proven to work for him, and look where his poker strategies took him.

A Background on Chris Ferguson

He tells his story of how he started from scratch and how, from zero bankroll to millions of dollars, he turned his fate around.  Ferguson started taking advantage of freerolls to start his poker bankroll, and although he would win a dollar or two from his poker games, it would always send him back to zero.  With patience though, he was able to put up a reasonable bankroll to actually play in games that call for paying a buy-in fee.

With this method, you can now see the first poker strategy that he employed — bankroll management.

Poker Strategies to Learn from Chris Ferguson

His first poker strategy was to learn how to properly manage his bankroll.  [Read][more...]

A Round Up of Poker Ferguson Michigan Poker and a Mish Mash

Chris Ferguson held the chip lead in the LA Classic until the end of the day yesterday.  He started the day with 1.7 million in chips and the lead.  He ended the day in sixth place and a chip stack of 1.5 million and the low stack at the final table.  The chip leader, Chris Karagulleyan, begins today with a stack totalling 4.0 million chips.  Ferguson got off to a very bad beat at the beginning of the round and dropped 500,000 in chips in one hand.  His round was a roller coaster ride, which saw him drop as low as just over half a million in chips and then recover to over 2.2 million only to go back down to the ending balance of 1.5 million.  This is his second final table at a WPT event.

Michigan may be going through a tough economic time, but Poker is still alive at the new poker room at the Turtle Creek Casino that just opened in its new location in June 2008.  The poker room has enjoyed a full table experience since it open.  Leslie Vancamp the poker room manager stated that the Poker Room had been booming from day one of its grand opening. [Read][more...]