Those of you watching Season 1 of the World Poker Tour on Fox Sports recently or who have memories on par with elephants are probably familiar with Chris Karagulleyan. He was the guy in the suit with the facial ticks who won the second ever WPT event back in 2002.
Those of you not watching Season 1 of the World Poker Tour on Fox Sports recently or who have memories on par with trout have no idea who Chris Karagulleyan is, because after he won the second ever WPT event back in 2002, he pretty much went the way of Temp Hutter and was never heard from again.
In fact, Karagulleyan is one of the charter members of the
[copy + paste] Karagulleyan is followed by Mike Sowers with 2,405,000. Joining them and making his first ever WPT final table is Chris "Jesus" Ferguson with 1,565,000.
Get full chip counts and reports (and follow the final table action starting at 4PM PST) here.
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This is not Chris Ferguson’s first WPT final table. He finished 4th in the WPT Invitational in season 3. See http://www.worldpokertour.com/Shared/Tournaments/Seasons/Season_3/WPT_Invitational.aspx. The current one is his first WPT final table in an open (i.e., non-invitational) event, however.