It takes a very good player to win a World Poker Tour Main Event, so it must take a great one to win it twice. That is exactly what Tony Tran achieved at the WPT Rolling Thunder, winning $264,270 as well as a $15,000 entry into the season-ending Tournament of Champions. He’ll be one of the multiple champions that others fear if they look at how he won this final table.

The irony behind Tran’s victory at Rolling Thunder was that the last time he faced Jake Schwartz heads-up for a WPT title was just over a year ago, 506 days to be precise, at the Bounty Scramble in Jacksonville, Florida.

This time, Tran made arguably an even better comeback as he defeated Schwartz heads-up again and denied Erkut Yilmaz the chance to win back-to-back WPT Rolling Thunder titles.

With 250 players the total field and a massive $1.1 million in the prize-pool, only 32 places were paid, with players such as WPT Champions Club member Matas Cimbolas, former PCA Main Event winner Harrison Gimbel and in-form Farid Jattin among the players missing out on a final table berth but making profit all the same.