JC Tran

JC Tran

aka ""Just Call" Tran"
Nationality
United States
United States

Biography

J. C. Tran (Justin Cuong Van Tran) was born on January 20, 1977 in Vietnam. Tran is the youngest in his large family with seven older brothers and sisters. When J.C. was only two years old his family moved to Sacramento, California. After finishing High School, Tran studied Business Management Information Systems at the California State University in Sacramento. Here he picked up poker and has been crazy about the game ever since.

He started with the home games and then went on playing the $9-$18 game at Capitol Casino in Sacramento. His first big live tournament performance came in 2004 at the World Poker Tour World Poker Finals where he finished fifth and collected $353,850 cash prize. Another big money finish was at the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) where Tran finished fifth in a $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em event and cashed $118,350. The same year, Tran finished seventh in the $10,000 WPT Borgata Poker Open and walked away with $199,820.

The first of Tran's two WSOP bracelets came in 2008. Tran came out on top in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event, a victory worth an impressive $631,170. Bracelet number two came a year later when Tran took down the $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event for $235,685.

Tran has two seven-figure scores on his resume. His second-place finish in the $10,000 L.A. Poker Classic in 2007 earned him $1,177,010, with his fifth-place finish in the 2013 WSOP Main Event coming with a career-best haul worth $2,106,893.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is another tour when Tran has enjoyed much success throughout his career. Indeed, he was named the WPT Player of the year in 2015. Tran has won more than $4.4 million from WPT events, an impressive sum helped by his eight WPT final tables and two outright victories. He won the 2007 World Poker Challenge for $683,473 and the 2014 WPT Rolling Thunder for $302,750.

Although known as a live poker tournament grinder, Tran has form in the online poker world. His largest online score came in 2006 when he triumphed in the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event, an impressive result that came with a $670,194 payout.

PokerNews Covered Events

Event Place Prize
2023 World Series of Poker
Event #82: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (6-Handed)
102nd $5,281
2023 World Series of Poker
Event #39: $1,500 Monster Stack
673rd $3,235
2023 World Series of Poker
Event #34: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
73rd $3,801
2023 Wynn Millions
$3,500 Main Event
74th $12,760
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship
918th $17,000
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #67: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout
24th $18,625
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #62: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout
223rd $1,878
2022 World Series of Poker
Event #33: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em
153rd $5,254
2022 Wynn Millions
$10,000 Main Event [$10,000,000 GTD]
73rd $31,323
2021 Wynn Fall Classic
$1,600 Mystery Bounty
62nd $8,245
2021 World Series of Poker
Event #45: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
39th $17,654
2021 Wynn Fall Classic
$2,200 Mystery Bounty
14th $26,800
2020 World Series of Poker Circuit Thunder Valley
$3,250 High Roller
1st $49,035
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #84: The Closer - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
10th $37,125
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #19: Millionaire Maker - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
128th $8,893
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #25: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack
117th $1,417
2018 World Series of Poker
Event #75: $1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em (30 minute levels) - $1 Million Guarantee
200th $3,515
2018 World Series of Poker
Event #37: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
12th $18,694
2018 World Series of Poker
Event #21: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MILLIONAIRE MAKER
42nd $26,713
2018 World Series of Poker
Event #19: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha
95th $2,019
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #60: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed
68th $7,893
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #38: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
5th $71,949
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #18: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha
19th $7,443
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
96th $3,222
2017 World Series of Poker
Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw
12th $4,387
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #64: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
21st $28,290
2014 World Series of Poker
$25,300 Big One for One Drop Satellite
3rd $250,000
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #42: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha
20th $16,888
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship
4th $185,971
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #21: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
38th $6,692
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em
4th $290,622
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #62: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
5th $2,106,893
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
20th $24,872
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
106th $2,854
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #45: $1,500 Ante-Only No-Limit Hold'em
34th $5,125
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #40: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
114th $3,500
2013 World Series of Poker
Event #11: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed)
83rd $4,540
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 61: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
561st $21,707
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 31: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
12th $38,214
2012 Aussie Millions
$25,000 No-Limit Hold'em Semi-Shootout
3rd 95,000 AUD
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em
29th $22,563
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #14: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball
15th $3,601
2009 PokerStars.com EPT London
£5,000 EPT London Main Event
50th £11,600
2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau
APT Macau Main Event
3rd $117,470
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em
108th $40,288
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 30 - $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha
1st $235,685
2009 Aussie Millions
Event 8 - $100,000 No Limit Hold'em Challenge
3rd 300,000 AUD
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 53 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout
88th $5,055
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 49 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
1st $631,170
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 44 - $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/Rebuys
24th $18,144
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 30 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship
5th $128,075
2007 L.A Poker Classic / WPT Event Season 5
Championship
2nd $1,177,010

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