The World Championship of Online Poker has come to an end. The tournament action at Poker Stars has been truly amazing the last couple of weeks. People have been playing in record-breaking numbers and earlier this week the 2006 World Champion of Online Poker was crowned.
With over 2,500 players participating in the WCOOP Main Event it was not very likely that a well known player would manage to win it. With the ever increasing number of participants in major online and live tournaments we see more and more one hit wonders – players that win a large event and then disappears. But this was not the case this year. When the smoke had cleared J.C. “area23JC” Tran stood as the overall winner. Tran is no newbie on the poker scene. Born in Vietnam but living in Sacramento California. He started playing poker while studying business at Cal State University. After getting his Bachelor Degree in Business Management he discovered that he could make more money playing poker than on a regular day job and decided to give it a shot. It proved to be the right decision. Tran has several final tables both in WSOP and WPT and now he is also the World Champion of Online Poker. Congratulations to you J.C., hope you put the $670,000 to good use.

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