WSOP Event No. 25 Winner Kenny Tran

Event No. 25 of the World Series of Poker was a $10,000 buyin Heads Up No Limit Texas Hold'em World Championship tournament that started on June 13th and played until June 15th. 

Since this was a World Championship event it put more at stake then just a first place finish.  The player that took home this event would get the first place cash prize, a WSOP gold bracelet and the title of World Champion.

This event only had 256 players enter in but with a $10,000 dollar buyin it still created a nice prize pool of $2,406,400 dollars.  The reason there were only 256 players was because of the Heads Up single elimination format of the event.  The top 64 finishers in the event would take home some cash at the tournament.

This was the second time this event has been included on the World Series of Poker schedule, the first time the event was played was at last year's WSOP.  At last year's event there were 392 players accepted but some players ended up drawing a random "bye and didn't get to compete in the first round.  This was viewed as giving too much of an advantage to those players.

So the WSOP has adopted a single elimination format with less players and no byes for this year's event.  On day one of the tournament only 128 players survived to play in the second round.  The second produced 64 survivors and then they played down to 32 in round three.  On day two the 32 players was reduced to 16 in round four and then down to 8 in round five.

Then round six halved the number again to only four players and the final players took their seats in two sperate matches at the final table on day three.  The two winners of the matches then faced off for a “best two out of three” finale played out on ESPN’s main stage.  This basically means that the tournament champion has to win all nine heads up matches to win.

The winner of the event and title is Kenny Tran, a professional poker player from Arcadia, Canada.  He got $539,056 dollars for the win and his first WSOP gold bracelet.  This win makes 12 WSOP cashes in his career.  “It means a lot to me to win, especially on Fathers Day,” Tran said afterward. “The first time you win this is really great and it’s just a great, great feeling. I have never really had this kind of feeling before.”

1 Kenny Tran $539,056 Arcadia California
2 Alec Torelli $336,896 Orange County California
3 Vanessa Selbst $108,288 Brooklyn New York
4 Jonathan Jaffe $108,288 Longmeadow Massachusetts
5 Lyle Berman $54,144 Minneapolis Minnesota
6 Gavin Griffin $54,144 Fullerton California
7 Brandon Adams $54,144 Pensacola Florida
8 Robert Mizrachi $54,144 Sunny Isles Beach Florida
9 David Williams $36,096 Las Vegas Nevada
10 Michael McNeil $36,096 Wheeling West Virginia
11 Michael Mizrachi $36,096 Hollywood Florida
12 Roman Paradiso $36,096 Downey California
13 John Patgorski $36,096 Chesapeake Virginia
14 Emil Patel $36,096 East Hanover New Jersey
15 Jonas Entin $36,096 Granada Hills California
16 Scott Montgomery $36,096 Perth Ontario, Canada
17 Matthew Giannetti $21,657 Las Vegas Nevada
18 Erick Lindgren $21,657 Las Vegas Nevada
19 Brian Roberts $21,657 Houston Texas
20 David Podgurski $21,657 San Diego California
21 Jean Moussa $21,657 Northampton Massachusetts
22 Andrew Black $21,657 Dublin Ireland
23 Jason Rosenkrantz $21,657 Commack New York
24 Alex Jacob $21,657 Tulsa Oklahoma
25 Isaac Haxton $21,657 Las Vegas Nevada
26 Evan Sofer $21,657 Henderson Nevada
27 Thomas Lutz $21,657 Oregon Ohio
28 Michael Banducci $21,657 Traverse City Michigan
29 Alexander Kostritsyn $21,657 Moscow Russia
30 Sam Farha $21,657 Houston Texas
31 Daniel Stern $21,657 New York New York
32 Clifford Cantor $21,657 Los Angeles California
33 Randall Brueckner $14,438 Acton Maryland
34 Le Nam $14,438 Huntington Beach California
35 Justin Bonomo $14,438 Las Vegas Nevada
36 Ryan Young $14,438 Las Vegas Nevada
37 Guillaume Delagorce $14,438 London United Kingdom
38 Justin Tran $14,438 Sacramento California
39 Anna Wroblewski $14,438 Las Vegas Nevada
40 Raymond Rice $14,438 Fort Worth Texas
41 Erik Pettersson $14,438 Lund France
42 Theobald Tran $14,438 Las Vegas Nevada
43 Joseph Patrick $14,438 New Castle Pennsylvania
44 Brian Powell $14,438 Louisville Kentucky
45 Philip Galfond $14,438 Gaithersburg Maryland
46 Patrick White $14,438 West Nyack New York
47 Ketul Nathwani $14,438 United Kingdom
48 Alexander Veldhuis $14,438 Rotterdam Holland
49 Dustin Woolf $14,438 Los Angeles California
50 Dustin Dorrance-Bowman $14,438 Austin Texas
51 Chris Ferguson $14,438 Pacific Palisades California
52 Jon Danielsson $14,438 Uppsala Sweden
53 Antonio Esfandiari $14,438 Las Vegas Nevada
54 Jesse McGinty $14,438
55 Mark Teltscher $14,438 London United Kingdom
56 Justin Adams $14,438 Chicago Illinois
57 Sirous Jamshidi $14,438 Broomall Pennsylvania
58 Christopher Bush $14,438 Bellingham Washington
59 Blake Cahail $14,438 Kansas City Missouri
60 Clonie Gowen $14,438 Murphy Texas
61 Antoine Berube $14,438 Quebec Quebec, Canada
62 Max Kats $14,438 Moscow Russia
63 Marc Fratter $14,438 Murphy Texas
64 Juan Carlos Mortensen $14,438 Henderson Nevada