{"id":2535,"date":"2013-07-25T23:41:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T03:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2013-07-25T23:51:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T03:51:56","slug":"jc-tran-leading-2013-wsop-me-final-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/jc-tran-leading-2013-wsop-me-final-table","title":{"rendered":"J.C. Tran leading Pack going into 2013 WSOP ME Final Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After the 2013 WSOP Main Event was trimmed down from 6,352 players to just 9 grinders, professional poker player J.C. Tran emerged from the smoke as the chip leader. The Vietnamese-American and 8 other professional poker players (listed below) will be competing on the 2013 WSOP Main Event final table on November 4th:<\/p>\n

1. J.C. Tran \u2013 38,000,000 chips
\n2. Amir Lehavot \u2013 29,700,00
\n3. Marc McLaughlin \u2013 26,525,000
\n4. Jay Farber \u2013 25,975,000
\n5. Ryan Riess \u2013 25,875,000
\n6. Sylvain Loosli \u2013 19,600,000
\n7. Michiel Brummelhuis \u2013 11,275,000
\n8. Mark Newhouse \u2013 7,350,000
\n9. David Benefield \u2013 6,375,000<\/p>\n

J.C. Tran has already earned two WSOP bracelets throughout his illustrious career, including one in a 2008 WSOP $1,500 No Limit Hold\u2019em event ($631,170) and one in a 2009 WSOP $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament ($235,685). The 36-year-old has also made 5 WPT final tables including a victory at the 2007 World Poker Tour World Poker Challenge, where he bested a field of 475 players to capture the $683,473 first place prize.<\/p>\n

J.C. Tran now has an impressive $9,041,483 in live earnings to his name, ranking him 24th on poker\u2019s all-time money list. However, should Tran win the Main Event and the $8,359,531 first place prize, he would rise to number 7 on the list, just below Phil Ivey who’s earned $17,649,220.<\/p>\n

The last couple of years may not have been great for J.C. Tran, but this year\u2019s WSOP seems to have put an end to his dry spell. He earned six 2013 WSOP cashes and still has the prospect of capturing poker\u2019s most prestigious prize.<\/p>\n

Despite all of his poker success, Tran also spends much more of his time these days with his wife and children. He commented on the support his family has given him by stating, “It\u2019s been really, really tough. My wife has been absolutely amazing. She\u2019s pregnant at the moment so her body is exhausted. Plus we have a two year old so things can get pretty hectic.”<\/p>\n

He continued glowing about his wife by saying, “She even wakes up to make me breakfast, prepare my coffee, drop me off, and meet me on dinner break. Right now she\u2019s not feeling well but still trying to do things for me. I told her right now just rest and relax. Once this is over, it will be all family time for a long time. I might make one stop for that big $10 million guarantee (in Florida) but other than that I\u2019m not going to Asia, not going to Europe, nothing. That will be it.”<\/p>\n

The way it looks now, Tran is hoping to collect one more big tournament score before taking some time off to relax with his family. And based on the current chip stacks, he’s definitely going to get a nice payday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the 2013 WSOP Main Event was trimmed down from 6,352 players to just 9 grinders, professional poker player J.C. Tran emerged from the smoke as the chip leader. The Vietnamese-American and 8 other professional poker players (listed below) will be competing on the 2013 WSOP Main Event final table on November 4th: 1. J.C. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1266,1270,1273,1268,1265,1271,1272,1274,1275,775],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}