Hung Tran Poker
Can China’s digital yuan really challenge the dollar?
For Tran, who still calls everybody 'boss' — the source of his nickname, he said — that moment would cause a cloud to hang over the rest of his poker-playing career at the WSOP. Phuong 'Kenny' Tran (born c. 1974) is a Vietnamese American professional poker player from Arcadia, California who won the 2008 World Series of Poker $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship. Tran was born in Vietnam and gives 10% of his winnings to his extended family there. He is married and has 3 children.
The DCEP will certainly bolster the Renminbi’s international position, but the weaknesses in China’s financial markets will prevent the Chinese currency from dethroning the US dollar anytime soon.
New AtlanticistbyHung Tran
New Asian free trade agreement secures economic space for China
The RCEP’s main winner will be China, who has secured a dominant position in one of the world’s most dynamic economic regions, giving Beijing the opportunity to establish its preferred rules and standards, and providing a major advantage for its companies to exploit these valuable markets.
New AtlanticistbyHung Tran
US provokes stalemate in WTO DG selection process
The competing multilateral and national visions for the WTO and the global trading framework among members will need to be reconciled for the organization to be able to pick a new DG.
New AtlanticistbyHung Tran
Hung Q. Tran is an accomplished economist, with broad experience across the private sector, international organizations and research institutions.
Mr. Tran has produced important research and shaped policy decisions concerning advanced and emerging market economies, global capital markets, debt and capital flows, and financial stability issues. He has spoken and published extensively on these subjects and has frequently been interviewed and quoted in the international media.
From 2007 til retirement in 2018, Mr. Tran was at the Institute of International Finance (IIF). Since 2012 he served as IIF’s Executive Managing Director while simultaneously leading its Global Capital Markets Department. During 2011-2012, he played an important role coordinating the negotiations of the Private Creditor-Investor Committee for Greece with the European Commission, the Euro Group, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The negotiations led to the successful restructuring of €206 billion of Greek Government Bonds, the largest sovereign debt re-structuring in history. Before that,serving as Counsellor and Senior Director of the Capital Markets and Emerging Markets at the IIF, he was responsible for the Institute’s highly regarded market policy research, which included multiple publications and services for its members.
Prior to his work at the IIF, Mr. Tran served for six years at the International Monetary Fund as Deputy Director for the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. His responsibilities included being the Chairman of the Editorial Committee of the Fund’s semi-annual flagship publication, the Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR).
From 1998 to 2001 Mr. Tran was based in London serving as Managing Director, Chief Economist and Global Head of Research for Rabobank International, a Dutch multinational bank. He spent the previous 12 years at Deutsche Bank, serving first as Director of Global Fixed Income Research from 1987-1990 in New York, then as Co-Founding Managing Director of Deutsche Bank Research GmbH from 1991-1995 in Frankfurt, and finally as Head of Equity Business (Sales, Trading, Derivatives, Research) for the Deutsche Bank Group in Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore from 1995-1998. Earlier in his career he had served in senior positions in international fixed income research for Merrill Lynch (1984-1987) and Salomon Brothers (1979-1984) in New York.
Mr. Tran received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics and Accounting from California State University, Fullerton and completed the doctoral course work in Economics at New York University.
| Kenny Tran | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Kid Sick Call Kenny Vietnamese Google |
| Residence | Arcadia, California |
| Born | c. 1974 (age 45–46) |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | 1 |
| Money finish(es) | 13 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 16th, 2007 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 3 |
| Information accurate as of 16 July 2009. | |
Phuong 'Kenny' Tran (born c. 1974) is a Vietnamese American professional poker player from Arcadia, California who won the 2008 World Series of Poker $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship.[1] Tran was born in Vietnam and gives 10% of his winnings to his extended family there. He is married and has 3 children. He first began playing poker in 1992 at a bowling alley while working at McDonald's.[2]
World Series of Poker[edit]
He began playing tournaments in 1999 and has thirteen career World Series of Poker cashes. Tran made the final table of the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. Event at the 2007 WSOP. He finished in 5th and won $444,000. In that same year he had his highest finish in the Main Event, finishing in 16th and earning $381,000. He also finished in 16th position in the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, earning $68,000. At the 2008 World Series of Poker Tran won a bracelet in the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship and his largest cash to date, earning $539,056.[1]
| Year | Tournament | Prize (US$) |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship | $539,056 |
Other poker events[edit]
Tran is known as a cash game specialist who plays in high-stakes No Limit Seven Card Stud games at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. He also used to play online on Full Tilt Poker where he was a sponsored professional. He has four World Poker Tour (WPT) cashes including finishing in 10th place at the Sixth Annual Five Star World Poker Classic in the $25,000 No Limit Hold'em WPT World Championship, earning $158,290.[1] As of 2009, his total winnings exceed $2,100,000.[3] His 13 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,661,619 of those winnings.[4]
References[edit]
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- ^ abcButt, Robert. 'Kenny Tran – Results'. The Hendon Mob. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
- ^'Poker Player Profile – Kenny Tran'. bluffmagazine.com. Archived from the original on June 11, 2008. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
- ^Butt, Robert. 'Kenny Tran – stats'. The Hendon Mob. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
- ^World Series of Poker EarningsArchived October 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, worldseriesofpoker.com
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External links[edit]
Hung Tran Poker Club
- Cardplayer.com profile at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- Full Tilt Poker profile at the Wayback Machine (archive index)