2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 3
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Khan is also a former competitive (though not professional) StarCraft player (an extremely fast-paced computer strategy game). Practice at this game undoubtedly helped him in online -- and brick-and-mortar -- poker. The often-animated Khan has 815,000 in chips.



With all the money going in, Chris "The Armenian Express" Grigorian had

against his opponent's J-10 for the nut straight. But The Armenian Express wasn't out of steam yet. Grigorian finished the hand with a full house by catching running deuces. After the hand, Grigorian is up to 37000.

only to have Sven Abelsson Runing wake up with 
in the small blind. No help from the board sends Mike to the rail.

, Mr. Rain cracked Daniel Fisher's 
. Mr. Rain trailed until the
spiked on the river. He dragged the pot with a set and increased his stack to 1.16 million.


. Gus Hansen called the 117,000 all-in of Tinten Olivier. The players showed...Hansen:


Olivier:


The turn came the
and the river a
. Olivier's king-high was best. As the dealer pushed the pot away from Hansen he said to himself, "Doesn't it suck when you have to call 117,000 with nothing?"
to make the winning hand.
Amnon Filippi and Liana Hakopian are all in on the turn. Filippi has A-Q, but Hakopian has 7-7. Filippi is out, and Hakopian is up to 300,000.