J.C. Tran
J.C.Tran Poker Profile
World-renowned poker player J.C. Tran was born in
Vietnam on January 20, 1977. Born Justin Cuong Van
Tran and later adopting the nickname J.C., he was
born as the eighth and youngest child of his
parents. Now, based in Sacramento, California, J.C.
Tran has established not only a productive and
lucrative poker career, but he is also established
as a graduate from one of the California State
Universities, with a degree in Business Management
Information Systems. The knowledge he has been able
to amass in part from his college education has been
able to serve him well in a variety of arenas, but
most notably in the field of poker. The
Vietnamese-American poker player has had a very
profitable career to date, with his live tournament
earnings exceeding 2 million dollars. Considering
he has only been in the professional poker circuit
for a few years, this is a very incredible career
thus far.
Not
only does J.C. Tran enjoy his poker career, but he
also has other hobbies as well, including hip hop
and electronica music that he favors listening to.
Enjoying being single and the clubs and parties that
go along with the single scene, J.C. Tran also
enjoys sports and other similar activities. Not
deterred by other interests, J.C. Tran leads a very
productive poker career, and was even able to place
first in the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament
Circuit at the Rio in Las Vegas. His rank for
Player of the Year is currently 14th, but
he was ranked as high as twelfth in 2004. This
social encouragement is part of what helps keep J.C.
Tran focused and in control of his future.
So
far, making good on his promise to be a top player
to watch, on October 1, 2006, J.C. Tran placed first
in the World Championship of Online Poker in the
category of No Limit Hold’em. He won the event,
which took over twelve hours to complete, and was
able to take home over six hundred thousand dollars
in prize money. Over 2,500 players had entered, but
J.C. Tran came through to win the coveted gold WCOOP
No Limit Hold’em championship bracelet. The main
event of the championship offered the winner over
six million dollars as the grand prize. This
championship is one of the largest in the world and
attracts players from over 89 countries in the
world.
J.C. Tran promises to continue to be one of the more
interesting players to watch in years to come. He
learned all about poker through teaching himself and
other opponents in Sacramento card rooms.
Self-reliant and shifty at times, J.C. Tran is an
exciting player to watch. The games he favors
include no limit hold’em poker, as well as pot-limit
Omaha, and one of his most recent cash events
included No-Limit Hold’em Event 9, where he was able
to cash in over $41,000. Being successful is
important to J.C. Tran, because he has big plans not
only for his future, but for that of the world, as
well.
In
addition to being so successful at poker, J.C. Tran
also has aspirations for world peace. He is very
interested in giving to charity and looks hopefully
toward the possibility of the world one day uniting
and promoting this peace. J.C. Tran is a very deep
and powerful person, in addition to being a very
strategic and challenging opponent when it comes to
the world of poker. These aspects about his
personality are part of what makes J.C. Tran not
only such an interesting player for spectators to
watch, but also makes him a very interesting player
for opponents to go up against.
