That final table was won by Phil Hellmuth, and also included two time world champion, Johnny Chan, and business executive and professional poker player, Lyle Berman.

"[4][a] Ten years later, Furlong's biggest win came in the 1999 WSOP main event, in which he won $1 million.

He defeated a final table that included professional poker players, Padraig Parkinson, Erik Seidel, Chris Bigler, 1996 WSOP Main Event Champion Huck Seed, and Alan Goehring, whom Furlong defeated in heads-up play to win the title.

[7] Furlong also won the Irish Poker Open, the longest running tournament in Europe (and now one of the largest), in 1987 and again in 1989.

Because of his involvement with the carpet business, he didn't play poker frequently, usually only the WSOP and tournaments in Ireland and western Europe.