JC Tran

JC Tran
JC Tran (2019)
Personal information
Date of birth	20th January 1977
place of birth	Nha Trang
Nickname	area23JCPokerStars
place of residence	Sacramento
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 2,106,893
Total prize money	$ 13,169,979
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	2
Cashes	69
Best main event	5th ( 2013 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	2
Cashes	21st
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	1
Last updated: August 9, 2020

JC Tran (* 20th January 1977 in Nha Trang , Vietnam , as Justin Cuong Van Tran ) is a professional American poker player of Vietnamese origin.

Tran has made over $ 13 million playing poker in live tournaments . He is two-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker , in 2013 the final table of the Main Event reached. He is also a two-time title holder of the World Poker Tour , where he was named Player of the Year in 2006/07 .

Personal

Tran was born the youngest of eight children and a degree in Business Management Information Systems at the California State University in Sacramento .

Poker career

Career

Tran has achieved the prize ranks in numerous high-value poker tournaments. So far he has celebrated his greatest successes in the tournaments of the World Poker Tour . With a total of five final tables, he is one of the most successful players on the tour. Tran reached eight final tables at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas and finished 117th in the main event in 2004 and 2005 . With a WSOP Circuit tournament in Las Vegas, he took second place and won 250,000 US dollars . In October 2006 he won the Main Event of the World Championship of Online Poker on the online platform PokerStars under the nickname area23JC . It's the biggest poker tournament on the internet and Tran won $ 670,000 after a deal at the final table. In March 2007, the native Vietnamese finished second at the LA Poker Classic in Los Angeles and won $ 1.2 million in prize money. Just four weeks later, he won his first title at the WPT. In Reno , he won $ 683,000 heads-up against Juan Alvarado. These results secured him the title of Player of the Year for the fifth WPT season. At the 2008 WSOP he won his first bracelet in the variant No-Limit Hold'em for about 630,000 US dollars. In November 2008, Tran won the PartyPoker.com Premier League's third season for a $ 300,000 win bonus. His second bracelet for more than $ 235,000 in the Pot Limit Omaha variant followed at the 2009 WSOP . At the main event of the 2013 WSOP , he reached the final table as the chip leader, which was played in early November 2013. There he finished fifth and received his highest prize money to date of over $ 2 million.

Bracelet overview

year	Buy-in (in $ )	competition	Attendees	Prize money (in $)
2008	1500	No Limit Hold'em	2718	631.170
2009	2500	Pot Limit Omaha	0436	235,685

Prize money overview

Tran at a tournament at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino (2005)

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2003	00.104,935	1
2004	00.769.051	-
2005	00.811.109	1
2006	01,167,313	2
2007	02,914,502	3
2008	01,474,893	5
2009	00.714.832	2
2010	00.081,526	1
2011	00.045,866	-
2012	00.183.341	-
2013	02,624,674	-
2014	00.857.345	1
2015	00.468.791	-
2016	00.245.964	-
2017	00.371,515	1
2018	00.165.651	-
2019	00.091,361	-
2020	00.077,310	1
total	13.169.979	18th

Web links

Commons : JC Tran  - Collection of Images

• JC Tran in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• JC Tran in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• JC Tran in the World Series of Poker database : 68 × , 1 × (English)
• JC Tran in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JC Tran in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 30, 2017.
2. ↑ PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker III ($ 75,000 No Limit Hold'em - Final) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 10, 2017.
3. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em (Event # 62)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 30, 2017 (English).