JC
Tran WPT Reno World Poker Challenge, Season 5 Champion and Season 5 Player of
the Year, autographed 8 x 10 glossy color photo.
*All proceeds of this sale goes directly to “Baby Hannum” Charity
(www.babyhannum.com)*
Born in Hong Kong, Justin Cuong Van Tran was born to Vietnamese parents as the
youngest of their eight children, and the family moved to Northern California
when he was two-years old. He learned about hard work and determination from
his parents, and the opportunities that the U.S. afforded the family was the
reason he went from high school to California State University at Sacramento
to claim a degree in Business Management Information Systems. Putting himself
through school wasn’t easy, though, but he found a way to supplement his
income and pay for school.
J.C.’s older brother took him to a casino for the first time when J.C.
turned 21, and he quickly picked up poker and its many nuances. He began doing
well enough in cash games to consider it a source of income, and he continued
to hone his game for a few years. By 2003, he had decided to give tournament
play a fair chance, and in a relatively short period of time, he was establishing
himself as a feared player at the table with eight cashes in one year, including
his first victory in a Heavenly Hold’em event in L.A., though he has always
claimed to be the nicest guy in poker away from the tables.
Each
year, J.C. seemed to improve his tournament game. In 2004, he came in seventh
at the L.A. Poker Classic, though just missing the televised TV table, and he
had three cashes at the World Series of Poker, two of which were final tables.
Late in the year, he made the final table of the WPT’s World Poker Finals
at Foxwoods and finished in fifth place for his biggest cash to that point of
more than $350,000. Two years, later, he bubbled the TV table again at the Borgata
Poker Open but made it to the final table of the L.A. Poker Classic where he
was eliminated in fifth place. By 2007, he was on a mission, and he nearly accomplished
it at the L.A. Poker Classic by making it to second place for nearly $1.2 million,
then traveled to Reno to do one better. He won the event, completing a long-awaited
goal by claiming a WPT title, and ended up as the Season 5 Player of the Year
to top it off.
$500.00 USD + Shipping is the sale price.
(All proceeds of this sale goes directly to “Baby Hannum”
Charity (www.babyhannum.com)
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