Valeriy Ilikyan Likes Pocket Aces
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"I know you have Ace-King. I'm positive."
Corral made the call and instead turned up
. Ilikyan tabled 
. "Deal it slow" Ilikyan begged the dealer, perhaps wanting to relish the moment.
The flop was
. The turn was the 
, and the river the 
. As that final card fell Ilikyan leaped up from his seat, knocking over a table full of water glasses that shattered on the ground and exclaimed several sentences in a foreign tongue. Many of the spectators and media surrounding the table seemed confused, as he looked more like a man who just took a bad beat. "Does he know he won?" whispered another journalist in my ear.
Ilikyan is now up to over 90,000 in chips.