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J.C. Tran Finishes Year Atop PokerPages ProRank 1Mon, Jan 7th, 2008 @ 12:00am After an impressive showing at the tournament tables in 2007, J.C. Tran has been crowned the Poker Pages ProRank 1 Champion. Raymond Voskanian of Glendale, Calif. was named the Champion of ProRank 2. The ProRank system uses a complex algorithm, awarding players points based on the percentage of the prize pool won, the length of the tournament and the strength of field. Field strength is based on the rankings of money finishers, with players being rated with results from the past 24 months. Tournaments with a buy-in of $1,000 or more qualify for ProRank 1 points, while players buying into $1,000 or less tournaments earn points towards the ProRank 2 race. J.C. Tran took home more than $1.1 million for his runner-up finish at the WPT L.A. Poker Classic on March 1st. Tran immediately followed that up with a win at the WPT World Poker Challenge Championship in Reno on March 28th, good for another $680K. If that wasn't enough, Tran added two WPT Bellagio event wins to his resume, on his way to $3 million earned on the year and the title of PokerPages.com ProRank 1 Champion. David "The Dragon" Pham finished the ProRank 1 race in second place. Pham was victorious in four ProRank eligible events and was present during 11 final tables. Pham's biggest payday of 2007 was $800K as the runner-up in the WPT Legends of Poker Championship. Bill Edler picked up his first WSOP bracelet this year, besting the field of 728 players in the $5,000 Short Handed No Limit event. Edler followed that up with a deep run in the Main Event, taking home over $1.2 million during the WSOP alone. Throw on a win at the WPT Gulf Coast Poker Championship in September and Edler's $2.5 million year is good enough for 3rd in the Poker Pages ProRank 1 race. Jonathan Little seemed to be at every WPT final table this year. The WPT Mirage Poker Showdown win in May helped Little into 4th place and allowed him to crack the $2 million mark for the year. Jared Hamby rode three WPT event wins and a runner-up finish at the WPT Mandalay Bay Poker Championships to a 5th place finish in ProRank 1. Raymond Voskanian turned $300 into $113K in January, outlasting 1219 players to take down event #1 of the L.A. Poker Classic. Voskanian cemented his ProRank 2 championship with his event #12 win at the Commerce Casino during Big Poker October, good for a payday of $86K. London's Kyriacos Dionysiou captured second place in ProRank 2 after a pair of wins at the Grosvenor Casino. Complete results are available for both ProRank 1 and ProRank 2. Good luck to all players searching for Poker Pages ProRank titles in 2008.
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