'Jesus' wins NBC Poker Championship
4th March, 2008
Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson has emerged as the winner of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, winning two out of three poker games against fellow Full Tilt player Andy Bloch.
Both poker professionals are renowned for their mathematical approach to the game, with each having separately written their own computer algorithms that give individual rankings to every possible hand combination.
Match one saw Bloch storm to a lead after lulling his opponent into an all-in A99 flop. Ferguson seemed confident with his AK but his opponent's mathematical leanings bore fruit when he confidently laid down a 9, giving him three of a kind.
"I think I have a lot of pressure on me now," Ferguson wryly commented ahead of the second match, which ended in an even-more dramatic style with 'Jesus' wielding four queens.
With tensions rising on the third and final poker table, Bloch's chip stack gradually declined once again and the Las Vegas native was left with little choice but to throw caution to the wind and pin his hopes on a high pair of tens.
That final stand fell just short of Ferguson's pocket jacks, however, affording yet another trophy to the five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner's already ample catalogue.
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