An American poker player, Chris Ferguson, has a net worth of $80 million.
Chris Ferguson, a computer science Ph.D. student, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1963.
The individual is from UCLA.
During his childhood, he started playing poker and went on to play online during his college years.
In the mid-’90s, Ferguson began competing in poker tournaments throughout California and participated in his first World Series of Poker tournament in 1995.
Ferguson has accumulated 63 money finishes and five WSOP bracelets.
The main event in 2000 was his most successful, and he also won the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
He is the lone poker player who has won three WSOP circuits events and his bracelets.
The United States Department of Justice’s 2011 investigation into Full Tilt Poker included him.
The online poker company had Ferguson as its director.
He and two others were charged with using money obtained from their customers to fund their own personal expenses.
Full Tilt Poker was accused by the DOJ of being a Ponzi scheme that embezzled customers with over $400 million dollars.
Ferguson’s abilities are exceptional, such as his ability to throw cards so quickly that they cut through a variety of fruits and vegetables.