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The Henderson Silver Knights, the AHL affiliate of the Golden Knights, will play their first game at 7 p.m. Saturday at Orleans Arena against the Ontario Reign. Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, the brainchild of Full Tilt Poker and one of the most notable faces of its team of “red pros,” had previously been ordered by the United States Department of. Chris Ferguson: 6: 14: Daniel Negreanu: 6: 15: Jay Heimowitz. Christopher Vitch: $1,440,918: 149. Caesars also owns the World Series of Poker® and the London. Chris “Jesus” Ferguson. Name – Christopher Ferguson Birthday – April 11, 1963 Location – Pacific Palisades, CA Online Screen Names – Chris Ferguson (Full Tilt Poker) Endorses – Full Tilt Poker Website – chrisferguson.com. Chris Ferguson is one of the most recognizable professional poker players in. Christopher Philip Ferguson, better known as Chris Ferguson, is a highly praised American poker player, who has won many championships and titles, thus earning admiration and respect. He has participated in World Series of Poker events and justified his skills by winning it five times. He was called Jesus for ages primarily because of his looks.
Seven years ago, April 2011, Black Friday shook the poker world with poker's big three (PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Ultimate Bet) getting indicted. Subsequently, Full Tilt Poker's Alderney license got suspended, and a hornet's nest of fraud and malpractice was uncovered as Full Tilt Poker turned out not to have player and operational funds segregated and subsequently wasn't able to cash out its players.
In September of 2012, Howard Lederer gave a lengthy interview to PokerNews, dubbed 'The Lederer Files', explaining his side of things. That was followed by a lengthy interview on the 2+2 podcast. A third interview, this time with DiamondFlush, was to take place but Lederer backed out at the last minute.
The general reaction to Lederer's interviews was less than positive with both the poker community on 2+2 and some players lashing out.
But while the majority of the poker community found Lederer's explanation unsatisfactory, there was more uproar about Chris Ferguson's silence in the months after. The professional poker player known as 'Jesus,' was part of Full Tilt Poker's core management group, but he remained tight-lipped throughout the entire saga.
Poker players on Full Tilt Poker were eventually made whole as PokerStars bought Full Tilt Poker's assets and reimbursed the players. Full Tilt Poker's management faced limited consequences of the whole ordeal.
Ferguson and Lederer remained absent from poker's biggest stage in the years to come, but in 2016, they both returned to play the game in the biggest spotlight. At the 2016 World Series of Poker, Ferguson and Lederer played several events, but Ferguson had nothing more to say than 'I'm just here to play poker' when asked by reporters and players. According to Daniel Negreanu, he said 'What are you talking about?' when asked when he would apologize.
While Lederer wouldn't cash in a single event since his return, Chris Ferguson has done much better. At the 2016 WSOP, Ferguson cashed 10 times totaling $253,519, including a fourth-place finish in the $10,000 Six-Max for $183,989. Last year, at the 2017 WSOP, Ferguson one-upped himself cashing 15 times, totaling $380,200. That included a runner-up finish in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud for $151,700 and a fourth-place finish in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo for $150,929.
Ferguson traveled to Rozvadov for the World Series of Poker Europe. He cashed six times, including his sixth bracelet in the €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo for €39,289, and took down the 2017 WSOP Player of the Year title.
Now, after having taken down the WSOP Player of the Year ranking in 2017 and playing dozens of events total since 2016, Chris Ferguson has offered an apology via his Vimeo channel. The video, titled 'Chris Ferguson reaches out to the poker community,' was uploaded on May 23rd and has a duration of 42 seconds.
Hi, it's Chris Ferguson.
I'd like to take this brief opportunity to address the poker community which I love and have been part of for a long time. I deeply regret not being able to prevent Black Friday from happening. After Black Friday, I worked relentlessly to ensure that all players got paid back, and I sincerely apologize that it took as long as it did.
I also realize it has taken me a long time to make any sort of public statement and I appreciate my fans and the poker community as a whole for the patience and support. One day, the Full Tilt Poker story will be told, and like many of you, I look forward to that day.
I hope to see you all at the World Series of Poker this summer. Thank you and good luck.
While Ferguson says he expects the story of Full Tilt Poker to be told one day, and adds that he looks forward to that day, he refrains from explaining why he's not telling his side of the story himself at this time.
Some of the reactions to the video on Twitter:
It took all this time for Chris Ferguson to come up with THIS apology?
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker)Here is a video from Chris Ferguson. It’s a shame that so many of the younger poker players have JUDGED Chris so h… https://t.co/o7kEdAcYS9
— phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth)He was a face for a company that stole millions of dollars from its customers. Don’t you think he should’ve release… https://t.co/6EZfhCAm2L
— Dan O'Brien ? (@DanOBrienPoker)@RealKidPoker Despite this I actually kind of feel he isn't the bad guy and there's some sincerity somewhere there.… https://t.co/9SfJKxbo9c
— Patrick Leonard (@plenopads)@RealKidPoker “I worked relentlessly to ensure all players got paid back, and I sincerely apologize it took as long… https://t.co/lGbGD1fBxi
— Mike Schneider (@schneidspoker)@RealKidPoker Man, I don't know. I didn't feel it was as heartfelt as you did! I guess it did effectively end my po… https://t.co/joaIX35rQk
— eric froehlich (@efropoker) @RealKidPoker Seriously, wtf
— Joey Ingram (@Joeingram1) Imagine waiting 7 years to release this: https://t.co/u9fmm7mpp0
— Lance Bradley (@Lance_Bradley)@phil_hellmuth Not surprising you would defend this scumbag. Phil and Chris are two birds of a feather, players wh… https://t.co/zb2K8KbDGR
— David Bakes (@DMBakes)@TheTmay @phil_hellmuth Phil’s generation grew up scamming and treating each other like scum. They think our genera… https://t.co/SdEf9iSysj
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Ferguson's Commercial Crew program portrait, photographed in 2018 | |
| Born | September 1, 1961 (age 59) |
|---|---|
| Status | Active (Boeing) / Retired (NASA) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Drexel University, B.S. 1984 Naval Postgraduate School, M.S. 1991 |
| Occupation | Test pilot |
| Space career | |
| NASA / Boeing Astronaut | |
| Rank | Captain, USN |
Time in space | 40d 10h 03m |
| Selection | 1998 NASA Group 17 |
| Missions | STS-115, STS-126, STS-135 |
Christopher J. 'Fergy' Ferguson (born September 1, 1961) is a Boeingcommercial astronaut and a retired United States NavyCaptain and NASAastronaut. He was the pilot of Space Shuttle Atlantis on his first mission to space, STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006 and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. He then commanded STS-126 aboard Space ShuttleEndeavour. In 2011, he was assigned as commander of STS-135, which was the final mission of the space shuttle program.
On December 9, 2011, he retired from NASA and became director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing's Commercial Crew Program. In August 2018, Ferguson was assigned to the first test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner,[1] although he stepped down from the mission in October 2020.
Education[edit]
Ferguson was born September 1, 1961, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Archbishop Ryan High School, from which he graduated in 1979. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in 1984, and earned his Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1991.
Military career[edit]
Ferguson was commissioned from the Navy ROTC program at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Naval Aviator wings in NAS Kingsville, Texas in 1986 and was ordered to the F-14 Tomcat training squadron in Virginia Beach, Virginia. After a brief period of instruction, he joined the 'Red Rippers' of VF-11 deploying to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean on board the aircraft carrierUSS Forrestal. While with VF-11, he also attended the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). He was selected for the United States Naval Test Pilot School program in 1989 and graduated in 1992.
Through June 1994 he was assigned to the Weapons Branch of the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland where he served as the project officer for the F-14D weapon separation program, becoming the first pilot to release several types of air-to-ground weapons from the Tomcat. He served one year as an instructor at the Naval Test Pilot School before joining the 'Checkmates' of VF-211 in 1995 and completing a deployment to the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf in defense of the Iraqi no-fly zone on board USS Nimitz. He briefly served as an F-14 logistics officer for the Atlantic Fleet prior to his selection to the space program.
NASA career[edit]
Ferguson was selected for astronaut training in 1998 and completed training as a pilot. Ferguson was the deputy chief of the astronaut office prior to his selection to the STS-135 crew and served as CAPCOM for the STS-118, STS-128, and STS-129 missions.
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STS-115[edit]
Ferguson made his first space flight as pilot of STS-115 in 2006. The mission delivered the second port-side truss segment (ITS P3/P4), a pair of solar arrays (2A and 4A), and batteries to the International Space Station. A total of three spacewalks were performed, during which the crew connected the systems on the installed trusses, prepared them for deployment, and did other maintenance work on the station. He returned to Earth after over 11 days on orbit.
STS-126[edit]
Ferguson returned to space for the second time, as Commander of STS-126 in 2008. The purpose of the mission, referred to as ULF2 by the ISS program, was to deliver equipment and supplies to the station, to service the Solar Alpha Rotary Joints (SARJ), and repair the problem in the starboard SARJ that had limited its use since STS-120. He returned to Earth after almost 16 days on orbit.
STS-135[edit]
Ferguson made his third and last flight as a NASA astronaut, Commanding STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle. The mission's primary cargo was the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) Raffaello and a Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier (LMC), which were delivered to the International Space Station (ISS). The flight of Raffaello marked the only time that Atlantis carried an MPLM. He returned to Earth after 12 days in space.
Post-NASA career[edit]
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Ferguson retired from NASA in 2011. He currently works for Boeing as director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing's Commercial Crew Program.[2]
Boe-CFT[edit]
In July 2018, Boeing announced his assignment to the first human CST-100 orbital test known as Boe-CFT. Ferguson was slated to be the capsule Commander, with 2 other NASA astronauts. It is scheduled to launch in 2021. In October 2020 he announced on his personal Twitter that he was stepping down as the commander and will not fly on CFT, for personal reasons.[3][4]
Personal life[edit]
Ferguson, who is of Scottish and Polish descent,[5] is married to Sandra and has three children. When he was in space for his wedding anniversary, NASA played the Frankie Valli song 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' as the wake-up music that morning, after which Ferguson wished his wife a happy anniversary.[6]
See also[edit]
- Biography portal
- Spaceflight portal
References[edit]
- ^'NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft'. NASA. August 3, 2018. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
- ^Mark Carreau (2012-04-26). 'JSC To Support Training, Early Flight Ops For Boeing CST-100 on Aviation Week.com Retrieved on April 30, 2012'. Aviationweek.com. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
- ^'Twitter'. Twitter. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^Harwood, William (7 October 2020). 'Commander of first piloted Starliner test flight steps down from mission'. Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^'Christopher J. Ferguson (CAPTAIN, USN) NASA Astronaut on Poles.org Retrieved on May 9, 2010'. Poles.org. 1961-09-01. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
- ^http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-126/mp3/fd10.mp3
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