Five players share the record for the most WPT titles ever - Gus Hansen, Carlos Mortensen, Anthony Zinno, Chino Rheem, and Darren Elias - and Tran could join the prestigious group with a victory here at The Bicycle Hotel & Casino. Tran boasts a career with $12.575 million in live tournament earnings, of which more than $4 million has come from the World Poker Tour alone, including two WPT titles. Tran bagged up a field-leading stack of 3.061 million in chips, which was nearly 1 million more than his closest competitor, Steven Tabb on 2.128 million. The player best positioned to take home the title, which also comes with a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions and a luxurious Hublot Big Bang Steel watch, is the one and only JC Tran. Each are guaranteed a payday of $17,430, but it’s the $653,692 up top that they’re all truly chasing.
Those players were part of a 763-entry starting field that proved the second largest tournament field ever for the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event. Twenty-four players remain in the Season XVI WPT Legends of Poker Main Event from The Bicycle Hotel & Casino in Southern California.
