Walking on Watermarks
Why Is Chris Ferguson Special?
There are 35 big banners hanging up around the Amazon room — a pretty cool ring-of-honor thing going on — honoring 38 years of main event champions and four players of the year … and I couldn’t help but notice one of them doesn’t belong. [Insert Tom joke here.]
Chris Ferguson, whose banner lords over the 75/150 Omaha-8 game that has been going on all night and through the morning, commemorates his 2000 win over TJ Cloutier. But look a little closer and you’ll see this photo is hardly authentic — it bears a Full Tilt logo … branding op for a company that didn’t exist at that time. All the other banner mugs feature pics from the feat in question.
UPDATE: Actually there are two of them like this … The picture of Dan Harrington supposedly from 1995 shows him fully decked out in 888 and Pacific Poker gear.
Kevin Mathers says:
June 4th, 2008 at 12:08pm
I think there’s more than those two, McEvoy’s looked pretty recent as well from pictures I’ve seen.
Dan M says:
June 4th, 2008 at 1:13pm
Yes, I hate when the facts get in the way of my conspiracy theory.
Kevin Mathers says:
June 4th, 2008 at 1:18pm
I could make up something for you Dan.
How about spreading the rumor that NBC will pick up the WPT.
DanM says:
June 4th, 2008 at 2:50pm
It’s true! They are going to package it with the PokerBowl.