JC Tran, choke artist????

[shaniac]

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JC Tran is sick good at tournaments. Not only that, he's a super nice guy. If you get to know him at all he's a very easy guy to root for.

I'd say yeah, JC has run bad at WPT final tables, but he's made so many it's ridiculous.

If you're aware of how the WPT final tables go it's not about him choking but about him getting unlucky when it becomes a crapshoot.

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Fwiw, it seemed like this particular LAPC played out in a slow, relatively non-crapshooty manner. At the end of the day, second and first place in a tournament are pretty similar to each other.

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only 1.2 million dollar difference.

(but I know what you mean)

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Yeah, tournaments are a joke for a number of reasons, this being one of them. Anything can happen in a headsup match (see: Ivey getting schooled by the dude from Hotel Rwanda) and the money difference between 2nd and 1st is insane. Still, winning a mill in a poker tournament for runner-up is a huge accomplishment and should be regarded as such.