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

Entrants: 2,718

Buy in: ,500

Prize pool: ,710,070

Final results:
1. J.C. Tran, 1,170
2. Rasmus Nielsen, 9,557
3. John Conroy, 8,255
4. Peter Nguyen, 3,734
5. Joe Pelton, 1,068
6. Chad Siu, 0,257
7. Jesper Hoog, 3,157
8. Robert Kalb, ,331
9. Christoph Kohnen, ,248

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

The ,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.