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Thithi (Mimi) Tran (born July 5, 1960 in Nha Trang, Vietnam) is an American professional poker player.

Tran, who began playing poker in 1989, has finished in the money in ten World Series of Poker tournaments, including two second-place finishes, a third-place finish and a fourth-place finish.

Tran is known for her success in high-stakes side games. She is also known as the former girlfriend of Barry Greenstein, who not only taught her how to play poker, but also convinced her to compete in tournaments; until the mid-to-late 1990s she had been exclusively a side-game player. (Initially, Greenstein himself also played exclusively in side-games; now he donates his tournament winnings to charity.) In exchange for Greenstein teaching Tran how to play poker, she taught him how to speak Vietnamese. The two have an on-going debate about who is the better teacher; Greenstein says he is the better teacher and Tran says that is only because she is the better student.

As of 2005 she has over $700,000 in live tournament winnings, and is the fifth most successful female poker tournament player in terms of earnings, after Annie Duke, Kathy Liebert, Jennifer Harman and Lucy "Golden Ovaries" Rokach.

Tran has two children and lives in Los Angeles, California. She is currently appearing in the GSN series High Stakes Poker.

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