Phuong "Kenny" Tran is a

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professional

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player from

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who won the

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$10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship. Tran was born in

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and gives 10% of his winnings to his extended family there. He is married and has 3 children. He first began playing poker in 1992 at a bowling alley while working at

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World Series of Poker

He began playing tournaments in 1999 and has thirteen career

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cashes. Tran made the final table of the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.

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at the 2007 WSOP. He finished in 5th and won $444,000. In that same year he had his highest finish in the Main Event, finishing in 16th and earning $381,000. He also finished in 16th position in the inaugural

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Main Event, earning $68,000. At the

Tran won a

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in the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship and his largest cash to date, earning $539,056.

Other poker events

Tran is known as a cash game specialist who plays in high-stakes No Limit Seven Card Stud games at the Commerce Casino in

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. He also used to play online on

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where he was a sponsored professional. He has four

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(WPT) cashes including finishing in 10th place at the Sixth Annual Five Star World Poker Classic in the $25,000 No Limit Hold'em WPT World Championship, earning $158,290. As of 2009, his total winnings exceed $2,100,000. His 13 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,661,619 of those winnings.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tran, Kenny American poker players Living people Vietnamese poker players American people of Vietnamese descent World Series of Poker bracelet winners Sportspeople from Arcadia, California Year of birth missing (living people)