No he is not Phil Hellmuth or Daniel Negreanu, which only means that 30 year old Justin Cuong Van Tran does not like or does not engage in the publicity machine that has engulfed the poker scene. But results say more about poker than any sound byte or publicity tour.
JC's play just at the LA Poker Classic is notable. He finished on the television bubble of the 2004 LAPC. He finished 5th in last year's 2006 LAPC and now leads the final two tables into Day Five of the 2007 LAPC.
JC is the only player beginning today with over two millon chips.
JC is the only player beginning today with over three million chips.
JC has a 2 1/2 times the chips of his closest rival.
JC has over 21% of the total chips in play.
JC can leap small buildings in a single bound.
Kristy Gazes out in 16th place to David Bach who caught a card on the river to bust her.
Bach raised to 72K from the cutoff with the and Gazes pushed all in from the button with the . Bach called. The board came the to take out Gazes on an unlucky river card.
1 TRAN JC 3,461,000
2 FERNANDEZ JACOBO 1,334,000
3 STRASSER JASON 1,196,000
4 EDLER WILLIAM 1,160,000
5 JURGENS TAD 1,059,000
6 JOHNSON BENJAMIN 1,055,000
7 BACH DAVID 985,000
8 GIANG CHAU TU 813,000
9 WASICKA PAUL 806,000
10 HERSHLER ERIC 745,000
11 BELL CHRISTOPHER 636,000
12 CORDI JOSEPH 512,000
13 PROCOPIO VINCENT 512,000
14 MUNRO RICHARD 371,000
15 CHANG JAY 333,000
16 GAZES KRISTY 307,000
17 ALVARADO JUAN 282,000
18 JING SHAN 266,000