Deep Sleep OSX then Boot Windows

I've recently installed Windows 7 using Boot Camp - like a lot of people, I just use it for gaming. It works well, but it'd be a thousand times more pleasant to switch between the two if I could have OSX boot back into the same state that I left it in; I know that deep sleep writes the state to the hard drive, so it should be possible to boot into Windows and then resume OSX from deep sleep later, but I can't seem to access the boot options after deep sleep - it automatically resumes the OSX session when I hit the power button.
I know it should be possible, perhaps using a little EFI trickery, but I'm at a loss for where to begin. Any ideas, anyone?

Just sharing. I had tried the following that does not work:
- While in OS X, start Terminal and run /efi/refit/enable.sh. Then put the Mac to deep sleep.
- When I power up the Mac, the efi menu will appear and I am able to select to boot OS X or Bootcamp.
- When I select OS X, the Mac will try to recover from the deep sleep mode, but it is never able to complete booting up successfully. The progress bar will get stuck just after the second indicator.
- I then have to hard shutdown the Mac.
- The next time when I power it up, it will boot normally into OS X as if the sleep image does not exist.

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