World Series of Poker Event #49, No-Limit Hold'em, 28-30 June 2008

Entrants: 2,718

Buy in: $1,500

Prize pool: $3,710,070

Final results:
1. J.C. Tran, $631,170
2. Rasmus Nielsen, $389,557
3. John Conroy, $278,255
4. Peter Nguyen, $233,734
5. Joe Pelton, $191,068
6. Chad Siu, $150,257
7. Jesper Hoog, $113,157
8. Robert Kalb, $85,331
9. Christoph Kohnen, $58,248

The $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #49) attracted another huge field as 2,718 entries created a prize pool totaling $3,710,070. The top 270 finishers collected prize money.

The $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em champion is the experienced poker tournament veteran J.C. Tran. He is a full-time professional poker player from Sacramento, CA.

Tran is part of a small group of professional players who came into this year’s WSOP who had accomplished just about everything possible in poker except winning a gold bracelet.