Kenny Tran takes $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship
Source: Kensei
Jun 16, 2008 - 1:12:52 PM
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Tran collected $539,056 for first place. He also earned his first WSOP gold bracelet. This was his 12th WSOP career cash.
Tran has a number of impressive tournament finishes over the past year. He finished 16th place in the 2007 WSOP Main Event. He finished 5th in the 2007 $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. championship. He took 16th place in the inaugural WSOP Europe championship held last year. Now, he has won the 2008 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship.
Tran born Phuong Tran, was born in Vietnam. When he truned 21, he started working as a poker dealer, and played recreational poker, mostly in low-limit games. Tran gradually moved up throught the ranks to the point where he now routinely plays for 6 figure sums against the top players in the world.
The rest of the players who cashed in the $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship...
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Name |
Prize |
City |
State/Country |
| 1 |
Kenny Tran |
$539,056 |
Arcadia |
California |
| 2 |
Alec Torelli |
$336,896 |
Orange County |
California |
| 3 |
Vanessa Selbst |
$108,288 |
Brooklyn |
New York |
| 4 |
Jonathan Jaffe |
$108,288 |
Longmeadow |
Massachusetts |
| 5 |
Lyle Berman |
$54,144 |
Minneapolis |
Minnesota |
| 6 |
Gavin Griffin |
$54,144 |
Fullerton |
California |
| 7 |
Brandon Adams |
$54,144 |
Pensacola |
Florida |
| 8 |
Robert Mizrachi |
$54,144 |
Sunny Isles Beach |
Florida |
| 9 |
David Williams |
$36,096 |
Las Vegas |
Nevada |
| 10 |
Michael McNeil |
$36,096 |
Wheeling |
West Virginia |
| 11 |
Michael Mizrachi |
$36,096 |
Hollywood |
Florida |
| 12 |
Roman Paradiso |
$36,096 |
Downey |
California |
| 13 |
John Patgorski |
$36,096 |
Chesapeake |
Virginia |
| 14 |
Emil Patel |
$36,096 |
East Hanover |
New Jersey |
| 15 |
Jonas Entin |
$36,096 |
Granada Hills |
California |
| 16 |
Scott Montgomery |
$36,096 |
Perth |
Ontario, Canada |
| 17 |
Matthew Giannetti |
$21,657 |
Las Vegas |
Nevada |
| 18 |
Erick Lindgren |
$21,657 |
Las Vegas |
Nevada |
| 19 |
Brian Roberts |
$21,657 |
Houston |
Texas |
| 20 |
David Podgurski |
$21,657 |
San Diego |
California |
| 21 |
Jean Moussa |
$21,657 |
Northampton |
Massachusetts |
| 22 |
Andrew Black |
$21,657 |
Dublin |
Ireland |
| 23 |
Jason Rosenkrantz |
$21,657 |
Commack |
New York |
| 24 |
Alex Jacob |
$21,657 |
Tulsa |
Oklahoma |
| 25 |
Isaac Haxton |
$21,657 |
Las Vegas |
Nevada |
| 26 |
Evan Sofer |
$21,657 |
Henderson |
Nevada |
| 27 |
Thomas Lutz |
$21,657 |
Oregon |
Ohio |
| 28 |
Michael Banducci |
$21,657 |
Traverse City |
Michigan |
| 29 |
Alexander Kostritsyn |
$21,657 |
Moscow |
Russia |
| 30 |
Sam Farha |
$21,657 |
Houston |
Texas |
| 31 |
Daniel Stern |
$21,657 |
New York |
New York |
| 32 |
Clifford Cantor |
$21,657 |
Los Angeles |
California |
| 33 |
Randall Brueckner |
$14,438 |
Acton |
Maryland |
| 34 |
Le Nam |
$14,438 |
Huntington Beach |
California |
| 35 |
Justin Bonomo |
$14,438 |
Las Vegas |
Nevada |
| 36 |
Ryan Young |
$14,438 |
Las Vegas |
Nevada |
| 37 |
Guillaume Delagorce |
$14,438 |
London |
United Kingdom |
| 38 |
Justin Tran |
$14,438 |
Sacramento |
California |
| 39 |
Anna Wroblewski |
$14,438 |
Las Vegas |
Nevada |
| 40 |
Raymond Rice |
$14,438 |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
| 41 |
Erik Pettersson |
$14,438 |
Lund |
France |
| 42 |
Theobald Tran |
$14,438 |
Las Vegas |
Nevada |
| 43 |
Joseph Patrick |
$14,438 |
New Castle |
Pennsylvania |
| 44 |
Brian Powell |
$14,438 |
Louisville |
Kentucky |
| 45 |
Philip Galfond |
$14,438 |
Gaithersburg |
Maryland |
| 46 |
Patrick White |
$14,438 |
West Nyack |
New York |
| 47 |
Ketul Nathwani |
$14,438 |
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United Kingdom |
| 48 |
Alexander Veldhuis |
$14,438 |
Rotterdam |
Holland |
| 49 |
Dustin Woolf |
$14,438 |
Los Angeles |
California |
| 50 |
Dustin Dorrance-Bowman |
$14,438 |
Austin |
Texas |
| 51 |
Chris Ferguson |
$14,438 |
Pacific Palisades |
California |
| 52 |
Jon Danielsson |
$14,438 |
Uppsala |
Sweden |
| 53 |
Antonio Esfandiari |
$14,438 |
Las Vegas |
Nevada |
| 54 |
Jesse McGinty |
$14,438 |
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| 55 |
Mark Teltscher |
$14,438 |
London |
United Kingdom |
| 56 |
Justin Adams |
$14,438 |
Chicago |
Illinois |
| 57 |
Sirous Jamshidi |
$14,438 |
Broomall |
Pennsylvania |
| 58 |
Christopher Bush |
$14,438 |
Bellingham |
Washington |
| 59 |
Blake Cahail |
$14,438 |
Kansas City |
Missouri |
| 60 |
Clonie Gowen |
$14,438 |
Murphy |
Texas |
| 61 |
Antoine Berube |
$14,438 |
Quebec |
Quebec, Canada |
| 62 |
Max Kats |
$14,438 |
Moscow |
Russia |
| 63 |
Marc Fratter |
$14,438 |
Murphy |
Texas |
| 64 |
Juan Carlos Mortensen |
$14,438 |
Henderson |
Nevada |
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